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Fen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Australia1848 Posts
August 26 2008 09:18 GMT
#1
Well, Ive been playing poker recently and Ive been increadibly unlucky. Its been bad beat city. However this isnt really anything new, I have always considered myself unlucky.

So I'm curious, do you think that you are generally an unlucky individual or lucky individual. Im curious as to where everyone would rate themselves. Is there a trend?

So, if you had a 50% chance to win something statistically. What would your actual winning percentage be (factoring your personal luck)?

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Poll: What would be your win %?
(Vote): 0%
(Vote): 10%
(Vote): 20%
(Vote): 30%
(Vote): 40%
(Vote): 50%
(Vote): 60%
(Vote): 70%
(Vote): 80%
(Vote): 90%
(Vote): 100%


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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17727 Posts
August 26 2008 09:22 GMT
#2
40 i tend to have very bad luck sometimes
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
August 26 2008 09:32 GMT
#3
some luck, lots of hard work and smart decision making, hmm 90-100%
SiZ.FaNtAsY
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)1497 Posts
August 26 2008 09:34 GMT
#4
0%

Cause of the strict rule I live by when playing poker.

Folding is for pussies.
Karma is a bitch
drug_vict1m
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
844 Posts
August 26 2008 09:55 GMT
#5
i have no luck.only skillz
One must feel chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
yubee
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States3826 Posts
August 26 2008 10:27 GMT
#6
i always lose coin flips. always.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
August 26 2008 10:28 GMT
#7
not lucky enough to win a cj shirt thats for sure
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
RoyCe
Profile Joined August 2006
United States179 Posts
August 26 2008 10:46 GMT
#8
i don't really think anyone is really "unluckier" then anyone else its the same amount of chance imho but maybe you tend to force issues a lot more then a "luckier" person
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8090 Posts
August 26 2008 10:54 GMT
#9
On August 26 2008 19:28 Plexa wrote:
not lucky enough to win a cj shirt thats for sure

QFW
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
vhallee
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
899 Posts
August 26 2008 11:08 GMT
#10
On August 26 2008 19:28 Plexa wrote:
not lucky enough to win a cj shirt thats for sure

ah dont remind me of this
Marijuana causes amnesia and other things I don't remember.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-26 11:19:32
August 26 2008 11:18 GMT
#11
Variance is a bitch. It makes skill irevelant too often at poker .

However if you have 50% chance to win something statistically your win % will be 50% lol ( on the long term ).
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
ToT)MidiaN(
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
England2183 Posts
August 26 2008 11:38 GMT
#12
50%, I don't really believe any one of us is simply more lucky than others in every aspect, sure some people WILL be luckier than others during a lifetime, just because of variance and a lifetime is not a big enough sample size for luck to even out. Not just talking about poker either....
Nothing worth doing is devoid of risk
Polis
Profile Joined January 2005
Poland1292 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-26 11:46:27
August 26 2008 11:45 GMT
#13
That depends mostly on fairies that actions you can't fully predict. If you had left some teeth for tooth fairy then you will be little more lucky in general, throwing some salt behind your back to scare bad ghost is good also.
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
August 26 2008 12:37 GMT
#14
i got a straight flush yesterday
Watch me fail at Paradox: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=397564
Eatme
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
Switzerland3919 Posts
August 26 2008 13:20 GMT
#15
I feel that I have kinda bad luck with diseases, injurys and things breaking randomly ect. While I dont have much talent in anything (that I have found out yet) I do think some bad luck plays in. Example I often get placed in the last part of start lists and often dead last. I wont bother to go in to how thats annoying but it sucks if you are at par or worse than your opponents when you have interval starts.
I dont play online poker but i dont feel really unlucky in such things, plus you still have to play your cards.
I have the best fucking lawyers in the country including the man they call the Malmis.
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-26 13:21:22
August 26 2008 13:20 GMT
#16
For some reason I only get lucky breaks in emergencies, and am horribly unlucky anytime else. So I guess if I was playing poker for fun then 0%, if I was playing poker because I was in horribly desperate need of money, then 100%

Although I voted 0%
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20019 Posts
August 26 2008 13:31 GMT
#17
god hates me and fucks with my life on a daily basis. I routinely lose to 3 outers or worse.
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32051 Posts
August 26 2008 13:48 GMT
#18
I wanna say unlucky, but there's so many times I sould have been arrested, seriously hurt, killed, etc.... so I'ma say pretty lucky.
PROFESSIONAL GAMER - SEND ME OFFERS TO JOIN YOUR TEAM - USA USA USA
MeriaDoKk
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Chile1726 Posts
August 26 2008 13:50 GMT
#19
Most unlucky bastard here
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
August 26 2008 14:51 GMT
#20
pretty lucky, I've never lost a hand of poker in my life
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
InfeSteD
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States4658 Posts
August 26 2008 16:31 GMT
#21
I feel the same way as hawk, I think Im unlucky but then I think about those events where I should have been arrested, etc ... so I guess Im 50%50%
w/e
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
August 26 2008 16:41 GMT
#22
I'm alive, healthy and have time to waste here, so I feel incredibly lucky.
But if something is statistically 50% then it's 50%. Anything different is just you fooling yourself.
No I'm never serious.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
August 26 2008 17:03 GMT
#23
I'm cursed. I try to avoid anything involving luck where I'm only 90% to win.

Although I'm damn good at rock paper scissors, which isn't luck at all, but a mind game. The same goes with poker. If you're losing at poker, it's just because you suck, since it's not really a game of luck. The only bad luck in poker is when you make the right read, your opponent makes the wrong one, and he still wins the pot. But half the time when people complain about luck, they're whining about their flush draws never panning out (when really they're winning them as much as they should be).
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
August 26 2008 19:51 GMT
#24
On August 26 2008 18:18 Fen wrote:
[image loading]

Poll: What would be your win %?
(Vote): 0%
(Vote): 10%
(Vote): 20%
(Vote): 30%
(Vote): 40%
(Vote): 50%
(Vote): 60%
(Vote): 70%
(Vote): 80%
(Vote): 90%
(Vote): 100%


Just wondering about this curve.
And 50%. "Personal luck" is bullshit.
o_x | Ow. | 1003 ESPORTS dollars | If you have any questions about bans please PM Kennigit
ulszz
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Jamaica1787 Posts
August 26 2008 19:53 GMT
#25
i'm pretty unlucky, it seems. but i have this friend luckiest bitch ever. he srsly wins everything. always.
everliving, everfaithful, eversure
Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Mexico4793 Posts
August 26 2008 19:59 GMT
#26
whenever i lose a big pot in poker due to bad luck, i usually get it back several hands later. So i think it balances out
Teamliquidian townie
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
August 26 2008 20:12 GMT
#27
On August 27 2008 01:41 Nytefish wrote:
if something is statistically 50% then it's 50%. Anything different is just you fooling yourself.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
August 26 2008 20:40 GMT
#28
30%.
[iHs]HCO | のヮの | pachi & plexa ownz | RIP _
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
August 26 2008 21:00 GMT
#29
I have the most awful luck in the entire universe.
RIP Aaliyah
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