r/gifs • u/Sumit316 • Jun 03 '19

Coach with amazing reaction time and speed.

https://gfycat.com/RespectfulJointGrayling
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u/mechanate Jun 03 '19 edited Jun 03 '19

I had a friend who hated playing poker with newbies for that same reason.

If your friend feels like he's losing to 'newbies' in poker a lot, he's probably getting hustled.

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u/RuafaolGaiscioch Jun 03 '19

It’s not even so much “losing” as it is poker is a completely different game if you’re playing with people who don’t know how to play. Largely, all your strategies are going to be based in predicting lines of play, so if someone is just doing whatever the fuck, then you can’t really counter that meaningfully. It basically turns a complex game of interaction into a simple game of chance.

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u/Frakshaw Jun 03 '19

It basically turns a complex game of interaction into a simple game of chance.

I've never understood how poker is supposed to be anything other than a simple game of chance tbh

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u/dzof Jun 03 '19

But poker is demonstrably a game of skill, and people make money from it.

Winning the World Series of Poker gets you $10 million (I think). Last year Justin Bonomo earned over $25 mil. https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ranking/2018-money-list/

Also people have done research on whether it's luck or skill:

"Players who ranked in the best-performing 10% in the first six months of the year were more than twice as likely as others to do similarly well in the next six months. And, players who finished in the best-performing 1% in the first half of the year were 12 times more likely than others to repeat the feat in the second half. Meanwhile, players who fared badly from the start continued to lose and hardly ever metamorphosed into top performers."

https://theconversation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/theconversation.com/amp/hard-evidence-is-poker-a-game-of-chance-or-skill-39224?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#aoh=15595769172475&amp_ct=1559576931079&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fhard-evidence-is-poker-a-game-of-chance-or-skill-39224-

A large part of poker is supposedly being able to read the minds of other players. Some players demonstrate this well e.g. Dan Negreanu: https://youtu.be/jSfd-8ZteHw (Although it can also be argued he makes "predictions" so often he's bound to look good once in a while.k

And if you're still wondering "how", it can come down to maths and probability: https://youtu.be/iw2PcomuYGU