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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

We talk a lot from time to time about attitudes and getting through life. One of the things I learned playing tournament poker is that losing a tournament isn't the same as not winning one. The latter is guaranteed. You can't expect to win them all.But you can make sure you don't lose one by fucking up. Playing that way you never "lose" tournaments, you just encounter some you aren't able to win.

For what it's worth, I think that attitude is generalizable to life. It has sure stood the test of time for me.

Your certainty discounts the role of luck and of random events in poker and in life. It is a conceit to believe you can always be in control of your own fortunes.

I invite you to notice that the subject of that highlighted sentence is "you," i.e., oneself, not random events or fortune.

For further assistance, see here.

The opening subject pronoun of the paragraph is in the first person plural. Followed by the first person singular. After which you switch to the second person singular. Seriously, your inability to control voice in a sloppily written paragraph is no excuse to avoid responding to the point I made: luck and happenstance often control the progress of poker and life, and we are subject often to the whims of fate.

The sentence I highlighted refers substantively to both the preceding and following ideas in the paragraph. Either agree or disagree, but please don't waste our time with sophomoric nit picking at your own inadequate and confused use of subject voice.

I didn't mean the grammatical subject, and I'm sorry that you find standard English so difficult to follow. The subject (topic?) of the highlighted sentence is what you can do, i.e., make sure you don't fuck up; make sure that your losses are due to events you can't control, not ones you can.

See how easy it is to read when you know the tricks?

K.