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RE: The lessons playing poker thought me - part 1
If you really want to know how much luck is involved in poker check: http://pokerdope.com/poker-variance-calculator/
For example, you play 1 million hands with 3bb/100 winrate and 150 standard deviation. There is a over 2% change of losing during that period. So that's 30 000bb below ev.
This site has lots of other useful and interesting information about variance. Like how likely it is that you have a downswing of 10000 hands during that same period of 1million hands etc (it's 52%).