True Gibbs, but you can know if the opponent has a stronger hand than yours by baiting him or seeing how much he raises, in tournaments you can't bluff or play heavily with hands that do not assure a win. For exhample, if you flop a top pair znd you have a good kicker and your opponent has a low couple pre-flop and flops a tris you're fucked, especially if you're the first one to talk cause you'll generally raise(and you'll lose chips even if you're wise enough to fold)... Yeah, luck has his part in it, but you can always make the right choices and save yourself 
@Rien: yes, all games which involve betting money are illegal in Italy, apart from the ones controlled by the government or by the casino of Venice (which is actually 8 times as far as Slovenia in my case). So yeah, theorically you could get arrested for playing a 5€ poker with your friends, even tho no one cares actually
@Rien: yes, all games which involve betting money are illegal in Italy, apart from the ones controlled by the government or by the casino of Venice (which is actually 8 times as far as Slovenia in my case). So yeah, theorically you could get arrested for playing a 5€ poker with your friends, even tho no one cares actually