The expert poker players as well as the average poker players scarcely ever worry themselves with the same old issues, but there is one issue that virtually all poker players, in spite of of proficiency, ask themselves regularly: how much luck is involved in the game of poker?

For a game where most players rarely ever think about luck, there is a lot of superstition. When you speak about someone being lucky in that poker tourney and won, be careful of how you say it. For example, if you talk about being unlucky, your luck may never change.

As rookies start to learn a little, they realize how much more they now know than they did before, usually overrating their brand new skills, and they pass through a stage where they feel there is very little luck involved in poker.

When players become truly superior, their view on luck is a bit tougher to pin down. Most great players have big poker egos, and that kind of ego does not allow them to view their game as one where luck plays much of a role. Yet these great players do not always win, even when they are playing against clearly mediocre opponents.

These may sound quite bizarre... but, here they are anyway. Did you know that if you are playing a game with two separate decks and you are asked to choose the deck, you should always select the deck of cards that is farthest away from you? Or, if you get a run of lousy cards, you have to sit on a handkerchief to break your unlucky streak? It is actually deemed to be good luck to blow through a deck of cards while they are being shuffled.
Some attention-grabbing poker superstitions are: