Sentence examples for game of luck from inspiring English sources

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"It was a game of luck for me.

The relevant question is not whether luck has any role at all, but whether poker itself is principally a game of luck or skill.

If poker were truly a game of luck, then the winnings of the 12% of entrants marked as specially gifted ought not to have differed significantly from those made by the rest.But the opposite proved to be true.

On August 21st Jack Weinstein, ruled on Mr DiCristina's case, becoming the first federal judge to pronounce on whether poker was in fact a game of luck or skill.

Also, despite what you may think – and what the developers of the game claim – Candy Crush is essentially a game of luck, your success dependent on the array of colours you have randomly been given rather than your swiping skills.

Having said that, can I be the first of 1,057 to point out to him that his metaphor regarding the lottery is erroneous since, if the winning selection was purely a game of luck, the quality in his letter or lack thereof would have little bearing on whether he won the prize.

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More than a century earlier, the Italian mathematician, physician, and gambler Girolamo Cardano calculated odds for games of luck by counting up equally probable cases.

In terms of non-video games, he prefers games of luck, in which a weaker player has a chance of winning, such as hanafuda, to games of skill, like go and shogi.

The Flahertys have been carnies since the 1920s, when the family roamed the UK countryside with their games of luck, freak shows, burlesque dancers, and rides.

Today's gambling industry is designed to give gamblers lesser odds of winning in all the games of luck and chance - even in the games that require skill, such as poker, the games are designed to ensure that the house always wins.

Mrs. Smithline explains that tag sales, like life, are a game of chance and luck.

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