Topic: Luck and skill, which is more important for gambling success? - page 8. (Read 1011 times)

Yes, it's true, whatever it is, luck in gambling is only temporary, even any skill will not make people successful in gambling. If you want to be successful in gambling, you can control yourself so you don't become addicted. I personally never thought that gambling could make me rich and What I know is that achieving success in gambling is very difficult, not as easy as imagined and everyone has a different view of how to be successful at gambling.

I never thought that I could be successful in gambling, my gambling activity was just for fun and did not focus on it as a job that provides wealth, so far I have also gambled relying on skill and luck, not only talking about winning and getting money, it is a bonus, not a bonus. The main target in gambling, enjoying gambling is the most important thing for me.

Nothing is within my reach, luck comes when it feels like and skills can't be apply to gambling, the only thing I can rely on is how I risk money on gambling, I use up to 2% of my income on gambling and I am satisfied with this, because I have other things going on in my life that's fetching me more money, gambling is for fun to me and yes I some times make money from it but I have never lose my sense to gambling only, I believe in my hardworking, what you work for is where you will make money and feed yourself, gambling is not created to make you rich, you need to be luck enough to get rich through gambling.

There is no way to know when you will be lucky next, and you don't want to believe that you will always be lucky, there are gamblers that are no more gambling today because they believe that they have run out of luck for life, because since they have been trying so hard to make money they haven't get lucky, gambling is really not for everyone.

Know how to manage your hard earned money, that's the right place to apply some skills, you are free to gamble anyway you want or take risk on any game but know what you are right money on, be sure you can be ok after you lose the amount after, this is the most important part of gambling.

Luck and skill aren't the factors to achieve success in gambling, gambling is success when you has a self control.

Self control is the most important because you can't make money through casino, in the end you will lose if you keep gambling. The money you make from the casino is just a "temporary profit", you need to looking back about the money you spent from the first time you try to gamble.

Luck is more important in the long term. Because gambling is not a skill which you can learn. There are some strategies which will make you win in the long run but these strategies are often banned by the casinos. (ev betting, arbitrage betting etc) So that means you can't really train yourself to win most of the time. You are either lucky or you are not. If you want to generate a reliable income, gambling should be the last thing you look into. Find your self a job, make investments or build a business. Any of them better than gambling. Gambling is just a fun habit and should stay that way. If you still insist on making money from gambling at least be the house, build a casino. As a player your options are pretty limited.

I think I will answer the same as most people that skill clearly has a big chance of supporting success both in gambling and other aspects. If in gambling you have the ability to play cards, for example, this will really support you to continue to improve and hone it as best as possible with the right techniques and teaching. There are even special card learning classes out there with all the techniques provided. I believe that skill will be more useful than relying on luck. Because luck cannot be predicted, while skill when playing, calculating the probability of winning can still be predicted. In this case, the game is not slot based but more like a card game.

Right now everyone including beginner gambler should know that any game where you do not need to read up or think up any strategy and requires you to push, pull or click on a button without doing any other thing is basically a game of luck. However if they need to do their homework and develop a certain strategy to win at the game where their effort determines the result to a degree then it is a game of skill.

Humans want to be in control of their outcome. They do not like to leave it to fate. Even so in gambling, any veteran gambler will tell you that skill bets luck in gambling. More times than not a players win in Poker or any other skill based game is because of the work they put in and not luck.

This question is a technical one which I look to say they are both dependent of each other because one must first be skillful at least to know how to predicts and also draw conclusion from their previous matches before s/he can go into betting. At this point skill plays a crucial roles after that we can talk of luck, luck is the possibility of one to win or lose after doing all analysis s/he needs lucks to win the game otherwise he can just be wasting his funds to play without winning despite being skillful. Let me just say luck is the finisher of it because I have red some story where someone used $0.1 to win about $55k this is skill plus luck at same time so, they are both essential for someone to have in order to become a successful gambler. Though I can't go into details since I am also a novice at this section of gambling.

Both are needed, and luck will play a very important role when we play games based on luck because skill is not needed but will be inversely proportional to skill games of course you will have a greater chance of winning if your skills are at a better level and luck will only increase your chances of winning and make your win more often.
And people who say luck is the main thing because they play games based on luck and their statements are not wrong because they are based on their experience, Likewise, when someone says that skill is really needed rather than because he is playing a game that really requires skill.

In sports betting you can only check the past performances of the player or the team. This is the only advantage we have over the gambling games but this data does not guarantee that players will show the same performance on the day and on the game that we are betting. Gamblers sometimes feel satisfied that they have bet on the strong team but we never know if it is a bad day for that strong team and they may lose the game, and therefore we lose the bet.  



Yes, there is no skill in gambling expect money management skill. I would still suggest people that they should learn about money management before they think of gambling as this will help them a big deal on saving their money.


Being realistic about gambling is the most important thing that all gamblers should know especially the new ones. People will show dreams to the gamblers that they can get rid of their poverty and all their financial problems by playing gambling and they may share the success stories of the gamblers too. The gamblers need to listen to the other side of the stories that how much money did they lost before winning jacktpots. Also they need to know about those gamblers who are still on the losing side and yet to make big win from gambling. This may help them not getting into xtreme gambling which is termed as gambling addiction.

Depends on the game.
If you are playing live poker then skill is definitely needed. If you are playing a casino game then you are playing against the house so what you need is luck.
Poker on the other hand needs some luck too so yes it's a skill base for bluffing and other methods to deceive your opponent and luck base if you get a good hand or for the flop, the turn, and the river to be on your side.

Skill is important because it can bring you anywhere. Luck on the other hand comes and goes. So I think both are needed but I still prefer those who have more skills because they play wiser than anyone.

Where or which games are you using skills on in gambling? The only place to apply your skills is your risking strategy, how much you can afford to lose, there is no skills to apply anywhere else, not in sports because you aren't the one to play the games yourself on the field, you are going to rely on someone else.

Gambling is too less about skills and more about your luck, do not make people believe this skill side because you will just end up becoming a addicted gambler, the more you accept that gambling is all about luck the less you will believe in it, and it's for the better.

You will be able to take risks on gambling only when you can, you will have small expectations from gambling because it's all about luck and you will end up becoming a health gambler, those who are addicted to gambling takes it way serious than everything else in their lives, the believe they have is what makes them fall for gambling addiction.

If you ask me that question my answer will be both luck and skill needed for in case of face profit gambling.  I don't want to say the word success because it should be only profit success word should be used on those sector where a person did hard-work and after that he get the success. So now if I talk about luck and skill then these two things are connected to each other in the sector of gambling. So for profit these two are equally important to me

It depends on the type of gambling, in some parts, it's only luck that matters, and in some, it's skills, knowledge, and experience that make the biggest difference. In gambling games, you don't need skills and no skill, experience or knowledge can make you win. On the other hand, in sports betting, luck doesn't have that big of an influence on the results, it's your knowledge and experience about the sport you are betting on that can make you win a higher number of bets.

So, those who say that gambling is all about luck, are not wrong, but those who say skills and knowledge matter in gambling, are also right because they are referring to a different gambling scenario and type. So, both arguments are correct in their places, and we should understand this simple fact.

Both. You'll need not only luck but also skill. Although I think gambling pure luck based. Because when betting on games and slots and rounds, there is a 50/50 possibility of either winning or lossing. But by betting if you mean sports betting like football, cricket, horse riding or wrestling these is a chance to bet based on skills. If you analyse which team is strong, which team has the best players, which teams has the most winning then, there can be a possibility. That's not just pure luck but good analysis.

I think gambling is more about luck. Because there are many people who spend their money to get a big win but they never get it, and not just one person I see like this. Even though they have lost a lot of money but they don't get the victory, they have seen that what they are fighting against is the bookie's machine that has been set up in such a way as to produce for the bookie. I'm just saying that if they bet with a large value it will make their money run out quickly and vice versa, suppose they bet with a small value but if they are lucky they might win big, but even if they bet with a high value if they are not lucky it will run out in the end.

And many do not realize gambling is made to make money for the bookie, not to give money to the players. Even though there will be winnings they get it's just a lure for the bookie to make the players more interested in gambling. And skills in my opinion are more dominant towards the player, will the player play with wise skills, or self-control skills when playing, and others. So in my opinion when talking about gambling it is more about luck.

Improve your skills, and let luck come to you. Luck may provide a small boost, especially if you're betting consistently, but what truly matters is skill. Consistency is the key to profitability. I don't understand why some believe that luck is the primary factor for winning. If that were the case, one could simply play the lottery, hit the jackpot, and be done with gambling since the winnings are substantial.

For punters seeking gradual and sure success, the skills we develop serve as our weapons to achieve that success.

The skill involved in gambling is more in the knowhow of how casinos work itself, how the house edge works, and maybe a bit of bluffing when it comes to card gamers like poker/black jack. Other than that, they're mostly skill really. This is why you can see how some people just have absolute luck with themselves but no skill still making money off of gambling since no matter what, the majority of what gambling is part of is mostly luck, not skill. Skill would mostly be involved if you've been playing for a long time. It can even be called tricks instead of skills really. Anyone that says otherwise is just smoking some weird ass coping mechanic right there.

Same as you, I believe that luck and skills are both important in gambling, many of people always say that if you won a huge amount, it's all about luck but as per the winner, they build a unique strategy on how to achieve winning. One factors that helps them to get the big money while losing minimal value is their Self/emotional control and wise decisions.

This will depend entirely on the type of game you are playing, so if you like to play dice then whatever skill set that you may posses is irrelevant as it is impossible to beat a game like that in which you rely completely on your luck.

However if you are playing a game in which your skill can influence the results then your skill is the only thing that matters, now some argue that you also need luck even in those games but I disagree, as your skill level should be high enough to overcome any bad luck streak that it may come your way making your luck irrelevant.

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Skills in traditional casino games have more to do with your ability to manage bets based on being able to be as close to the HE.
Consequently according to your abilities you are in a negative roi as close to 1%, o you achieve breakeven, or in green roi, hence those three states that are always fulfilled by the variance, and do not affect you is a fascinating skill.

Then in poker and BJ you can find that skills are preponderant to better adjust the profits.

But regardless of the scope of the game, variance governs your destiny, there is V+, V-.

 What is luck?