So, that old question: how much is poker about luck?
Luck is a huge factor. Your job as a poker player is to identify the situations in which you have a very good chance of winning and risk as much money as possible. The skilful players will give themselves a better chance of winning, but no matter how good you are, there is so much luck involved in any specific hand. Of course, given the law of large numbers, the luck eventually evens out. So the more tournaments you play, the less luck is involved in the game.
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