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Poker is more of a luck based game.
I stopped playing it a while back because you might be sitting there doing everything right, (Raising before the flop with a strong hand, follow up betting, etc) But in the end, you'll just get outlucked

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Originally Posted by Soulbora

Poker is more of a luck based game.
I stopped playing it a while back because you might be sitting there doing everything right

I could probably gaurantee you that you were not doing everything right, i used to play hours of poker per day, losing at the start, to finally getting some decent scores. With poker even though you may think you have a "valuable"hand you have to think what your opponent has, think about both of these things in comparison to the blinds, and what board texture you have, does your opponent bluff, have you been bluffing and caught? are they a complete donk who will not fold a pair of threes to overs and you have A,K but haven't hit?

These are only a few things out of many. Varience is involved with poker but the more hands and games you play will come down to skill. Sure luck is involved in the game and sometimes you will be rivered etc, but overall luck isn't that huge. I know and know of people that make thousands per week play less than $20 tables more often than not, this is where all of the donkeys play that don't have too much of an idea.

Poker isn't an easy game it takes patience, and skill to lose the least in a hand where you are beat, and to extract the most value with your winning hands. I had hope to be playing low stakes tournaments and sit and goes for a living, but didnt quite have the mindset to do it 'when i was trying 12 months ago, it can get quite swingy with losses and i found that the hardest to deal with. I will start again with a few hours a week soon once i get back into the strategy of poker again and hook up with some people that DO this for a living for a kick start for some help.

So in my answer sc2 can get you thinking on other levels on what your opponent is doing and reacting to their strategy, poker has some similar elements of higher levels of thinking that you can use to outplay your opponent if you understand the basics of poker