Sometimes it is just fate. Poker is a good example. When you have 10 show downs in a row and are an 80:20 favorite ever single time but you lose it all, that's fate in my opinion. Even if you control yourself and keep playing a solid style, there is not much you can do. Luck is against you, which I would say equates to fate.
Fate doesn't exist, much less in poker. What you call Fate is pure variability of short term results, but a winning poker player even though he has those unfavorable short term results, because he makes EV+ moves, or moves that are profitable in the long run.