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This is intended for all those players who think poker is a quick buck, and they'll run it to a million dollars within a year. Yes, I'm talking to you, you who just made his first $200 in a freeroll, you who just won $400 in a $1 tournament, even you who just won a $2000 in a $11. I'm talking to all of you.

Understand this, and everything will be easy.

1. Poker is a form of gambling. When you're gambling you must be well aware that there are risks involved. Your aim as a poker player should always be to manage your risk efficiently.

2. That said, its still a game, a skill-based game of incomplete information. There are a number of tactics, techniques, strategies that can be put in place to come out on top. These things takes time, you have to learn it like every other skills you've acquired. Your mantra should be "learn, practice, and repeat".

3. Treat poker with the same level of respect you have for your job. Now, when things go south in your job, do you go around b*tching about it. No! You find a solution (I'm hoping that's what you do. Otherwise, you've a bigger problem to deal with).

4. Always be willing to learn. I've been around poker professionals who would just sit there and listen when we talk about poker, as they like to say, "It's better to learn than to suffer the consequences".

5. And remember, its great to have goals in poker. Chase them with all your blood & sweat. But just don't go chasing fool's gold.
 
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As once said one leader: learn, learn and learn.
 
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poker is 99% luck , not mathematics, so there to count the profit as well as the loss of all the money you can with the same probability !!!
 
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SIMPLE LUCK
 

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99 percent luck? Are you, serious?
How then do the same players remain lucky, year after year?
You have been playing for 10 years? I would love to play against you...
 
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poker is 99% luck , not mathematics, so there to count the profit as well as the loss of all the money you can with the same probability !!!

LOL, getting past the "luck" thing is the first step to becoming a winning player. It is true that people win hands that they are a huge dog, but that is simply the math of the game.

If you consistently put your money in with the better hand, you will end up being a winning player.
 
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It`s a game.Have fun:)
 
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It is true that if you consistently put your money in with the better hand you will end up a winner over time, but the problem is the "consistently" part. Most of us don't do it consistently. The best of us do it more frequently than the times when we expose ourselves to unnecessary risk, but we all expose ourselves to that risk.

As Doyle Brunson says, "you won to win the big pots with your big hands and lose small pots with your small ones." This is harder said than done, as the most of the time when I find myself making the wrong play, I find myself knowingly doing it and even knowing I will regret it.

Poker is and always will be a game where your only opponent is yourself.
 
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poker is 99% luck , not mathematics, so there to count the profit as well as the loss of all the money you can with the same probability !!!

slots is luck... roulette is luck. Poker is NOT luck. Either that, or I'm the luckiest person the world to have won hundreds of thousands over the years at poker.
 
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I think he was just trolling around...
 
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poker is 99% luck , not mathematics, so there to count the profit as well as the loss of all the money you can with the same probability !!!

I've been PLAYING for MORE than 10 YEARS AND REALIZED ONE thing - they do NOT COUNT, AND the CARDS will FALL AS LUCKY

In yesterday's Freeroll you went all-in with :4h4::5h4: against AA on the flop :8c4::3s4::3c4: and lost it all and ended the game. This is wise? What luck? What are you talking about?
 
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Yes , I went, and explain why, really wanted to sleep, and I was absolutely still on the further development of the scenario of the game!!!
 
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99 percent luck? Are you, serious?
How then do the same players remain lucky, year after year?
You have been playing for 10 years? I would love to play against you...
well, let's play!
 
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Something Ledenev_Russ rights. No luck, nothing to do here. Only 60% luck and 40% skill. First and foremost is a game. Even the champion of the wsop will not do anything if the downswing will come in the game.
 
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Too narrow a view

Okay. Enough of it.

For people saying its luck, so what now? How do you move forward? How do you control luck? Or are you saying, we should give-up & stop playing poker altogether?

Drawing parallel, will that be your approach when you start a business (Or take any risky endeavors)? Given when you start a business, the risk-factor's too high and the variables, most of the time, out of our control. What will you do then? How will you approach it?
 
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Ok, here is my 2 cents. Poker is a combination of luck, skill and simple math. Play hands with good odds, do not be reckless and never play with money that you can not afford. This will give you a rewarding poker experience.
 
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Yes , I went, and explain why, really wanted to sleep, and I was absolutely still on the further development of the scenario of the game!!!

To think - a lot of smart people, and your job is to remain silent in a rag...

You could just leave the game and to place in the prizes. Your stack was over 12 000. You made a bluff and got caught. Your opponent asked: you 3? You said "Yes". And in the following bet you did not all-in. And showed that you don't have 3. You ...
And first: don't insult forum members!
 
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You could just leave the game and to place in the prizes. Your stack was over 12 000. You made a bluff and got caught. Your opponent asked: you 3? You said "Yes". And in the following bet you did not all-in. And showed that you don't have 3. You ...
And first: don't insult forum members!
I wonder Who I insulted that, then you my friend misled...
 
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