That's not true as the odds of getting 3 heads or 3 tails in a row dows not corrolate with skill. However, knowing what risks you are willing to take and how to use them does take skill. You can build a deck purpley around high risk/high reward and win more than 50% of the time.
Also, there is luck involved in the actually game.
Such a number cannot honestly be determined. It depends on the player.
But, if you were to be so general about it, 25% is not a good number, as probabability, if perfect would dictate that 3 heads in a row is highly unlikely. You have to take that number into consideration to. Yes, in a stupid world, luck would win 25% of the time, but that's only really stating that luck is 25% of the general outcome; not how much luck was actually involved.
Let me put it this way: You can cut a pie into uneven parts and still get the same number of parts as the person next to you. Parts and percent are not the same. You must take both into consideration.
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One of the issues I personally have seen is that some of the "little guys" get easily distracted when they are
playing a game. They also don't seem to want to play against anybody but their "buddies".
I know that I might seem a bit "intimidating" (I am about 6' tall), but I treat the kids really nice. I even give them cards for playing against me.
They also have a habit of being a bit more interested in the trading portion than the actual game.
Not really sure how old you are supposed to be in order to play this game, but I see these kids doing stuff like not playing by the rules, not knowing the rules, and also not knowing what the cards do. I try to explain what they do, but they don't seem to listen.
They also seem to get upset when people tell them the rules. Also when they are losing due to the rules, they get upset about it.
For example I was playing against a really young person today. I was taking it "easy" on them by not adding in the Poke Power from Cherrim for my attacks, yet I was still knocking out his Pokemon left & right.
I looked at his deck, and it seemed like a couple of starters mashed together. I tried to make suggestions, but I don't think he understood what I was telling him. I also made sure to go through all the phases of the draw, play energy, trainers/supporters, and then attack.
Maybe I should have played a different deck, since this deck I had was kind of a "serious" deck (even though it did not have all the usual "staple" cards that make up a championship caliber deck, it still can do up to 150 damage with just 2 grass energy).
They lack discipline. Too much sugar and threats to their parents.
