How is the performance of a poker player evaluated? Is skill and knowledge more important? How much does luck and variance influence? A good hand with a bad decision can make you a tournament. What do you think?

Skill is the biggest factor of course and then you start to factor in variance. I think you also need to be good at controlling your emotions.

Hello.
I am convinced that a player's skill is more important than his luck. Only skilled players have a chance to become successful players in the long run.

Luck is good, of course, but everyone needs to train the skill. Luck is not enough.

Skill should definitly be your foundations of your games
And with some luck you gain some extra succes

Luck or chance alone wont get you far

For me 60% of skill and knowledge and 40% of luck.

Originally Posted by MauroMMMM

How is the performance of a poker player evaluated? Is skill and knowledge more important? How much does luck and variance influence? A good hand with a bad decision can make you a tournament. What do you think?

Skill and knowledge is important in poker, short-term results due to variance are neither positive nor negative, but in the long run they will be thanks to your skills.

poker is for me 60% skills and 40% luck therefore knowledge and skills so it is more important than luck without a doubt

The skill is the most important. I have been watching for years that, if you are playing a lot in some consecutive days, you become more good player due to playing the game a lot. If you take a long break and then play again, in the first days you will be playing a lit bit more stiff and strange.

Also, the luck is the other important part of the game. Without this, you can not win, even if you are the best player in the world. . But you need more skill and taking the right decisions than having luck. To succeed in poker you must have both things - luck and skill, but the skill must be more than the luck.

long-term skill, short-term luck, simple as that

Luck is an important part of poker. But in order to properly take advantage of luck, you need to have knowledge and training.

I think skill and knowledge are definitely more important. For the most part, over time, we are all subject to the same luck and variance in this game of poker. It is our skill and knowledge that allows us to best navigate through the luck and variance minefield.

I think you can have a good day of poker because of lucky, but in the long run to be a successful player you need to have poker skills.

skill and knowledge in cash games luck in tourneys lol

Of course, the skill is important, but without luck in poker, it is also hard ))).
For example, in tournaments with a smooth structure, with long levels, skill is more important, with a percentage of about 85% skill and 15% luck.
In turbo tournaments, there will already be about 70% skill and 30% luck.
In General, the faster the poker the less skill and more luck.

I believe that luck in poker has a small share compared to knowledge and skills

Poker is only luck. Skill doesnt matter. Only if you are lucky or not matters.

Poker is about luck and brave , you must know the rules , but 90% is about luck.

Luck is very important for online games, skill improves with the number of games played. The main thing is to take a break in time, so that in case of a series of failures, you do not go into tilt.

Of course, skill and bankroll management. A lot of luck hurts, especially when it turns away from you.

Skill is essential vs. luck 100 per cent, there are plenty of players out there that just go all in pre flop. This is not good poker and this is just my view as to playing check, bet. I have said this many times those with a big bank roll are not worried about losing and play carelessly. If you want to make the final table or the cut off to get paid you play smart and there is no luck involved just skill. Eliminate the luck and you will move up slowly but surely. Capo1014

Skill is a bigger factor which is why you see a lot of the same players contesting the later stages of tourneys that being said you need your hands to hold up down the stretch aswell so luck definitely plays a part around 70/30 I would say.

I would go 50/50 here people are talking that skills are much more important but without luck there is a lot of downs, tilts and so on...its hard to play like that

Originally Posted by MauroMMMM

How is the performance of a poker player evaluated? Is skill and knowledge more important? How much does luck and variance influence? A good hand with a bad decision can make you a tournament. What do you think?

the performance of a player is evaluated with results, a good result is achieved with a serious work of good luck and skill, this set of good luck and skill occurs in the moment that comes the cards with which the skill that are : AA KK AK JJ QQ 1010 99 and etc .... when these cards come you play high and the ability to have evolved good luck becomes valid in training after training, tournament after tournament ... until the point of win.

Skill will allow you to survive early in the tournament but you will need luck to get to the final table (or win the whole thing).

Poker is a game of imperfect information and chance. Keyword is chance, not luck. A skillful player will always beat a worse player given enough volume. Therefore, in my mind, poker is 100% a skill based game. The only exception would be large live MTT's, where the amount of volume required to completely eliminate variance is simply unattainable in a reasonable time period.

Proficiency is 60% with luck at 40% lower stakes in my opinion.
But then as one gets a higher stake, that number changes. Although I've never been there before, at the very high stakes I think it can change to 80% (skills) and 20% (luck).

For me poker is risk, and all things where risk is essential, luck is welcome. Is skill more important than luck? I think the two walk together, as a couple.

Luck is only important in roulette.

Poker is one of the games in which skill plays an important role. Knowledge is a great power. But there is luck in this game too.
The combination of these factors affects your progress to the final table.

well, this is a debatable topic and after I have gone through a number of answers I can say honestly that it is dependable on our point of view.
for, me I tend to stand in the "Skills" side because I can improve it through reading more, studying more, and playing more while luck is rebellious and hard to train. it is like choosing between 2 horses 1 is well trained while the other is wild.
A final note: I would prefer to be luckier in freerolls rather than skillful so I can call "all inners" and I am happy being skillful on higher stakes that is why to choose the best between these 2 monsters you should at least define the t&cs

In the long run skill is important and emotional control

Good question, good luck is important but in the long run, of course, skill is the most important.If only luck mattered, in many countries poker would be only a gamble.

80% Luck 20% Skill

work on the game, training with a coach is more important than luck at a distance

Originally Posted by MauroMMMM

How is the performance of a poker player evaluated? Is skill and knowledge more important? How much does luck and variance influence? A good hand with a bad decision can make you a tournament. What do you think?

i think there's more skills than luck. IT's something to practice to become better in time

Skill and luck, luck and skill

In the short run, a little bit of luck might win you a couple of dollars, but in the long run skill is the only way to make a profit. And as they say; the better you are, the more "luck" you have.

luck will win you in the short term and skill and patience will win in the long term. its why you see the same pros all the time. they're no all lucky.

Skill is more important and if skills are improving then luck follows and completes the poker image of the player!

Luck > Skill

If a player has a big luck, skill doesn´t work.
This idea can be applicated for everything.

Nothing better than the good skills to be able to play poker and if you are following a good bet it is likely that you will end up winning in the biggest corner of the hands that you could lose, even some of the combinations of these in the son enough to win those people who pay any amount on the flop and end up winning the match

Skill is very important in your ability to playing poker with some luck involved. With skill comes with controlling your emotions and patience. I rate it on a ratio of 75% skill and 25% luck.

Hello community, skill comes first in poker, there is variation and little luck but with study and knowledge increase your skill and the chances of winning in the long run

I think skill is the biggest factor in poker of course.

the ability knowledge the strategy and the passion to win without fear and luck when we need it.

Originally Posted by MauroMMMM

How is the performance of a poker player evaluated? Is skill and knowledge more important? How much does luck and variance influence? A good hand with a bad decision can make you a tournament. What do you think?

I believe that our teachers are right when they teach us how to adjust to poker and its consonant change from hand to hand but there are at least three types of players TAG, NIT and LA is to take one of these clothes and work the game. I bought a book here in Brazil from DanHarrington he was known for being the action Dan but he also had more passive players, for example freeroll I'm not playing at ease because of the nervousness it interferes with the way I bet because it goes into the emotional bet that it generates bad play and bad play generates loss of money. not counting elimination from the tournament. hug bro success XD

In the power game, both characteristics go hand in hand, but one depends more on the other. In other words, in my opinion, skill goes beyond luck, since one chooses the moment to bet, and the rest goes to luck. In percentage, I consider skill to be 70% and luck is 30%.

If you rely on luck, it is gambling. If you rely on skill it is a sport.

I believe that the sum of the 2 things if you are skilled and you are not lucky you do not win and if you are lucky and you are not skilled either.
the difference is that if you are lucky and skilled you have more chances