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Are you a lucky player?

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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited November 2009
    In Response to Re: Are you a lucky player?:
    Hi everyone I seem to remember from my psychology days, a study that was done to determine whether people who thought they were lucky actually were luckier than those that thought they werent. They got a group of people to rate how lucky they thought they were on a scale from 1-10, then had them predict the outcome of a large number of coin tosses.  It transpired that those in the group that scored themselves highly and therefore more lucky, actually WERE able to predict the outcome of the toin cosses more often than those who rated themselves unlucky.  Not to bore you with statistics, but this study showed that it was beyond chance and that there was a significant importance on how lucky you perceive yourself. maybe something for us all to consider when we next go all in and its a race...
    Posted by Buistyboy

    Variance.
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  • margatemafmargatemaf
    edited November 2009
    In Response to Re: Are you a lucky player?:
    I went to vote lucky and my mouse skipped to unlucky just as I pressed the button, I can't believe my luck!
    Posted by Machka

    Funny as!!!!!

    i voted unlucky ... i couldn't win a raffle if they gave me the wining ticket! an if i had a royal flush, i'd still find some way of losing!!! ;)
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  • nirvana29nirvana29
    edited November 2009
    im pretty much 50-50 so im not gonna vote, my luck comes and goes.
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  • bluff1991bluff1991
    edited November 2009
    If im playing tight I tend to think im unlucky as when i get the pocket rockets like aa kk qq, they usually get beaten, and i dont limp in I play it fairly aggressive around 6x bb. JJ always loses unless i hit a set.
    When i play loose I am very lucky, I tend to hit flushes and 2pair a lot more than I should. Tempted to play more loose but I dont have the bankroll to always reload if i lose
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  • BADBOY985BADBOY985
    edited November 2009
    In Response to Re: Are you a lucky player?:
    In Response to Re: Are you a lucky player? : badboy do u reckon u can get worse the more u practice tho? feels like Im getting worse the more I play
    Posted by xFALLENx[/QUOTE
    THINK THAT AS YOURE PLAY IMPROVES THE TIMES YOU GET UNLUCKY (BADBEATS) HAVE TO GET WORSE
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  • BuistyboyBuistyboy
    edited November 2009

    Hi deadluck

    To come back to your variance comment relating to the psychological study, the statistical analysis uses equations that factor in vairance (ANOVA- Analysis of Variance) which factor in for the existence of variance.  The results showed that over and above the variance you refer to, there was still a correlation between a subjects perception of how lucky they are, and their performance in predicting the outcome of coin tosses.

    ray

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