Do you consider your self a lucky person?
Just wondering how many of us consider ourselves to be lucky?
I tend to think overall I am not a lucky person but use my skills and knowledge to help me win at the poker table.
I tend to think overall I am not a lucky person but use my skills and knowledge to help me win at the poker table.
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Examples:
1) I bought a house and the laywer screwed up and I was thisclose to being homeless for a weekend. I also went from a return of $2800 to owing the laywer an additional $3000 all in 12 hours. He sucked.
2) The week after I spend almost all of my savings building a deck and buying a vacation package I get laid off from my job.
3) The first day I park my car on my street instead of my driveway it gets crunched by a hit and run driver.
4) On an important trip to Florida I am the ONLY person to get bumped to the bnext day flight only to learn that my seat was still on stand-by for the next day (I found out once I got there).
5) Whenever I go through airport security I am ALWAYS the random search. And I used to travel monthly.
6) My running shoes set off metal detectors. Airport security later showed my that there are two metal bars in my shoes. Why? No idea.
7) I had corrective surgery on my nose as a child only to have the doctor correct one side and screwup the other.
8) While travelling my hotel room key works only 50% of the time. I almost always have to go back to the front desk and get a new key....this happens when I first check in.
My wife never believed my bad luck stories until we got married and she has witnessed first hand my luck. She calls me the unluckiest person she knows.
I have sooooo many more odd unlucky stories.
I get angry for 10 minutes and then move on.
I probably have as many examples as FlintBones does of his unluckiness!
My favourite was finding a $25 chip on the floor in Caesar's Palace and betting it at a $25 min BJ table. Within about 3 minutes I had quadrupled up and I treated my friends to dinner.
Little things like that happen to me all the time.
As for poker-related luck. Meh. Sometimes the cards are with me, and sometimes they aren't.
The cutting of the deck is another issue that maybe even deserves its own thread!
Not a single one of you has to worry about a bomb hitting your house, a mine in the playground, the stores having food on the shelves or being detained in a jail for years without access to due process.
Sure there are bumps along the road, I have already had 2 major surguries on different parts of my body, been laid off from a job after my SO had found a job and comitted to move to another city to be with me, etc. But I don't consider any of it bad luck, I just call it life.
No malice intended. Just trying to approach the discussion from a different angle. The OP was just about luck, not luck at the poker table, etc.
I have travelled a lot for work as well (2 flights a week for 9 months straight). I also had lots of border issues, were subject to many a "screening", etc. It isn't fun. I am also not saying that your point is invalid, just trying to view things through a wider lens.
Adam.
It's like bringing up the fact that at least Sloth has money to buy a new bed frame from Sears since he should be happy since there are people sleeping in gutters.
Why am I reading this thread?