Branch Rickey Legend has it that baseball executive Branch Rickey could recognize talent from the window of a fast moving train. So he was lucky to have talented ballplayers. Outside poker, good luck is often the result of deliberate planning and hard work.
People get lucky because they try to get lucky.
It works this way in poker too, to a large degree. But, luck in poker is very different from the above sports examples. The luckier you are at poker, the worse you play. We all appreciate luck in poker, and wish we could bottle it and save it for future days, but in many ways luck is the enemy of a good poker player. First let s look at luck from the perspective of the bad player.