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Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove
This one gets me because I am a nit picking pedant. When a dealer starts the down with 'Good luck everyone'. We can't all have good luck, we are playing each other.
I point this out every time. For some reason, I am not well liked at the table.
I agree, but my issue is this--Why would I want villain to have good luck when he is at my table? For that reason I never wish someone good luck. As someone who believes in what the PPA is doing to get some respect for poker, I don't want to talk about luck, or gambling, at all.
That's why Doyle Brunson successfully petitioned the International Skills Game organization to include poker along with go, chess and other games of skill. That's why the PPA is arguing in front of state judges that poker should be treated as a game of skill, not as gambling. That's why I don't want to hear anything about poker gods or lucky hands.
I appreciated so much Mario Ho's commentary on the Heartland Poker episode. She never talked about poker gods or lucky hands or any of that crap. If there is so much luck in poker, how have players like Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and Mike Sexton continued to be consistent winners for 30 or 40 years?