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This luck-factor can detract from poker’s meritocratic sensibilities. But the fact remains that there are bad players. And then there are professionals whose faces make repeated appearances at the final table of World Series events. It’s dangerous, many professionals say, for people to play poker with the idea that luck will constantly provide an edge. More than three-quarters of all poker players are losing players (“There are a lot of people playing,” Darkhawk says. “A lot are bad”). In 2007, gambling...
...that bodes well for professionals. Forget skill and luck—all you have to make sure is that you’re better than the next guy, and the multitudes that have flocked to online poker in recent years have ensured that there is a consistent crop of bad players. One of Ian’s friends said he liked gambling because he is “surrounded by inept people, yet none of them are his boss, and if they do something dumb, it makes him money as opposed to a mess for him to clean...
...always try to be very critical and keep the lookout…‘Okay, I lost money—did I put myself in a bad situation, or did I just lose money?’ ‘Okay, I won money—did I put myself in a good situation, or did I just get lucky?’ These are questions I ask myself everyday,” says Hawrilenko, one of the world’s best heads-up limit hold’em players. “People don?...
...moves and all the possible ends. As you move up the tree, it narrows down to what is called your distribution, or the hands you can possibly hold. Professionals, Hawrilenko says, try to maximize the value of their distributions and balance the best possible hands with both good and bad hands. But even those with the heaviest intellectual machinery and the most rational approach can still be vulnerable...
According to Bernhard, the UNLV sociology professor, gambling constitutes any activity in which valuable items are wagered with no guarantee of the outcome. The description sounds a lot like poker—every hand has a good or bad outcome. It’s the mere possibility of the former, coupled with the ease with which it can happen, that draws legions to the game. But many experienced poker players chafe at the use of the term “gambling,” wincing as soon it’s mentioned and politely interrupting to clarify the distinction between...