Nobody can have +EV in the lottery.
Nobody starts playing as a professional.
All your arguments are irrelevant.
For most people it's a bad idea. But there are winning players.
Yes, and those players made it through the initial period of their professional careers via luck as much as skill. Statistics.
If that makes you happy.
I'm not averse to your adverse position here ;)...
Removed. Unnecessary.
I'd have to be a GM for this in chess:
21 min ? Was it Super-turbo or something ? then u must have won by (edition: almost) pure luck because that kind of tourneys are lottery
Nitro. And they aren't lottery or I couldn't be consistently winning in them.
Nitro. And they aren't lottery or I couldn't be consistently winning in them.
well if saying that it satisfies you....
This is my poker graph for 2010, playing about one Sunday afternoon and one evening per week. Try to get a similar graph in any luck-based game. Statistically impossible.
Nice Ultra!
This is my poker graph for 2010, playing about one Sunday afternoon and one evening per week. Try to get a similar graph in any luck-based game. Statistically impossible.
perfectly possible, most of professional players have positive graphic and its normal..
I thought that were your chessratings Ultraman81, lol
I thought that were your chessratings Ultraman81, lol
what happened to the orange with teeth ?
Knife
Orange+knife= 2 half oranges
Orange+knife= 2 half oranges
R.I.P.
Thnx, Now they are making juice of the orange......:/
In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Good if you're a winner though! 
Good job!
Nobody can have +EV in the lottery.
Nobody starts playing as a professional.
All your arguments are irrelevant.
For most people it's a bad idea. But there are winning players.