Quote Originally Posted by DonkDonk
Interesting how so many new FTR members make their inaugural post acting like they have figured it all out w/some breakthrough knowledge. Not that there is anything wrong with this, just interesting.
lol. maybe when you've played 600 hands you'll realize that poker is 100% skill and 0% luck.

you barely ever see "amateurs" making it to final tables. even the less well-known players at the final tables have played a good few million hands or more. a lot more than 500 hands.

in the short run - tournaments contain a high percentage of luck. but in the long run there is no such thing as luck. look at phil hellmuth's poker stats. he's won 10 WSOP's and every year he's winning another bracelet and finishing on the final table a few times.

how did jonny chan manage to in back-to-back wsop main events and then come 2nd the next year? how did doyle brunson manage to win backtoback main events?
how did dan harrington manage to come 6th in 1987, 1st in 1995, 3rd in 2003 and 4th in 2004 in the WSOP main event? with a few hundred/thousand players in the events?

is it just luck? of course not. luck only applies in the short term. no such thing as luck in the long term