01-10-2009, 10:31 PM
The last 24 hours, so many little irritating things have happened to me, it's all built up and now I'm tense and wound up. I just want to punch something.
Oh, and it really annoys me when people say poker is a sport, or that it's 90% skill and 10% luck, or something stupid like that. The fact is you can be the best player in the world, make all the right moves, but if your opponents are always getting better cards, you're gonna lose. Even the biggest winners admit that their edge against other opponents is small, and it takes a hell of a lot of volume to see their advantage clearly shown in their results. I do appreciate the skill and strategy factor though, if it was just purely about luck I'd probable just go bet on sports instead. I like the idea that you can outsmart people, there's also a lot of math involved too that a lot of people don't realise. There's just a lot of different levels to the game.
Oh, and it really annoys me when people say poker is a sport, or that it's 90% skill and 10% luck, or something stupid like that. The fact is you can be the best player in the world, make all the right moves, but if your opponents are always getting better cards, you're gonna lose. Even the biggest winners admit that their edge against other opponents is small, and it takes a hell of a lot of volume to see their advantage clearly shown in their results. I do appreciate the skill and strategy factor though, if it was just purely about luck I'd probable just go bet on sports instead. I like the idea that you can outsmart people, there's also a lot of math involved too that a lot of people don't realise. There's just a lot of different levels to the game.