First thing, all players need to remember : Card games are luck dependant...
No matter your strategy, luck is a big part of Poker, and I will demonstrate it here by 2 nice examples.
The worst hand in poker (Texas Hold'em) is known to be Seven Deuce off suit : 7 2, meaning that when you get those cards you will fold most of the time.
I must admit, it exists some hands I never fold, my preferred hand is K9 suited, what many calls the dog as it is pronounced Canine... I won many improbable hands with it, but I am considering adding 7-2 to my favourite hands :)
Why ?
First, because I recently won a turbo sit'n go tournament with it (Turbo 3 players):
Looking at this hand, not only I won with the so called worst hand, but I played against one of the best hands: K A
But I also recently lost all my chips with a nice flush king high :
Why do I show this example here ? Well, read the revealed cards again and imagine playing with the worst hand 72...
Indeed, you get it, the 7 full of deuces would have crushed the flush and I would have made an historical double up :)
But my flush finished as what I would call a Bad Beat ...
Hopefully, on replay's poker, it's not real money, so I can rebuild my stack, it's just a matter of time :) But, between you and me, yes it hurts anyway...
So yes, Poker is really about luck, probabilities will always be probabilities and nothing more than that :)
Of course on the long run, probabilities are supposed to show the good path,
unless Lady Luck looks somewhere else...
Images credits : Replay's poker screen shots, with Mortal Kombat alike captions :)
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Enjoy :)
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