Bridge is a slightly odd choice of example in your opening section. A single hand of Bridge has very high randomness; it’s quite likely the weaker partnership will “win”, assuming they have at least basic competence in the game. The advantage of a stronger pair only really becomes apparent over a large number of hands.
The same is true is Poker, even more so. In fact stronger players may not “win” very many more hands than weaker players at all; it’s just that when they win they win more and when they lose they lose less.
Despite the randomness, bridge is an excellent example, as “people who are serious about it” play duplicate bridge. Duplicate poker exists, but doesn’t seem as popular.
Bridge is a slightly odd choice of example in your opening section. A single hand of Bridge has very high randomness; it’s quite likely the weaker partnership will “win”, assuming they have at least basic competence in the game. The advantage of a stronger pair only really becomes apparent over a large number of hands.
The same is true is Poker, even more so. In fact stronger players may not “win” very many more hands than weaker players at all; it’s just that when they win they win more and when they lose they lose less.
This isn’t true at all in Chess, of course.
Despite the randomness, bridge is an excellent example, as “people who are serious about it” play duplicate bridge. Duplicate poker exists, but doesn’t seem as popular.