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Poker Should we try to reduce luck element in poker?

Discussion in 'Poker Forum' started by leandr0s, Dec 13, 2015.

  1. leandr0s

    leandr0s Guest

    When you are all in preflop, on the flop or on the turn and all cards are face up you know your percentages. you know whether you have 30%, 50%, 70% or if you are drawing dead. If you come in the same position many times you will gradually see that reality follows math so after a 1000 times getting your money on a flip coin you will end up winning half the times. many people like to run it more than once just to eliminate the luck factor. and i really wonder if we want poker to be all about skill and dont want ourselves to be called gambler why dont we take action to reduce that luck factor? An idea i had (maybe someone else has already thought about it though) is if after an all in we can check the percentages of each player and split the pot accordingly. so if you get it in with Aces vs Kings preflop you will get 80% of the pot and your opponent the rest. this way you avoid badbeats and all things that make poker so brutal and unfair. I can see some difficulties with it in tournaments because if someone always goes all in preflop they are actually never going to be eliminated because no hand is drawing dead preflop against any hand but in cash it is something that i would prefer to play. any ideas on that? maybe some counterarguments?

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