Anyone who doesn't admit that every session we play is in the hands of "luck" is in severe denial.

For years I've been saying that the game of video poker is 95% luck and 5% skill--that skill of course being a solid knowledge of how to play your chosen game, the skill to only play in a spot comfortable to you, and the skill to hit the buttons properly. The rest is entirely up to luck. Entirely.

In fact, even the past purveyor of SKILL being 95% of the game--Bob Dancer--is beginning to see & admit that luck plays a much more important part of the game. His most recent article is a somewhat slick, helter skelter adaptation about what he's becoming more and more a believer in, but it's a start. Maybe all those losing promotions he's been roped into playing lately shook some sense into him.