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[QUOTE="IrishDave, post: 358453, member: 3388"]
When you mention luck in poker, most people think about the miracle flop or miracle river.  The luck I want to discuss is more situational luck, like getting KK in the BB.  Many of our forum events are played pretty tight as most of us know each other fairly well.  In any tourney, you have to steal the occasional pot to survive as the cards don't always come when needed.  How many times have you played tight and folded hand after hand and watch your stack dwindle?  For most of us the answer to that is fairly often.  As this is happening, you know you're going to have to represent a hand soon to stay alive.  Now if your the lucky sort, the aces will arrive in the nick of time to save you.  If you're like me, you just have to pick a spot and play like you have aces.

The type of luck I want to mention is the type that allows you to represent that hand and not run into a real one.  Our dear friend Grumbledook is a very aggressive player and his first instinct is to attack the pot.  There are times he puts that big bet in and I'm certain he's got crap but when I look down I'll have a powerhouse like 8-3 offsuit.  He steals the pot (sure he could have had aces) and play goes on.  My luck is such that I'll pick my spot, right position, tight image, and I'll generally walk my represented hand right into a big pocket pair.  This is the kind of bad luck that generally knocks me out of tourneys and it's just another way random chance affects our success.  Think about it for a second, put 10 equally skilled people at a table and who will generally win - the luckiest.
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