When I first started gambling, I won some significant amount of money which further motivated me to continue gambling. Like any other gambler, later on I found myself losing more money than ever. Which is why I have always thought about whether beginner’s luck was real. To me, it didn’t make sense that the machine or the game knows if the player is a beginner so there’s no such thing as a beginner winning more than an experienced gambler.
But now that I thought about it, I realized that the beginner’s luck had more to do with the player itself than outside factors. As a beginner, you have no expectations. You do not know what’s possible. What can you win, what can you lose. There is no pressure of playing which is why you are just able to win. But a few rounds after that, you are already expecting to win. There is the need to perform better and get more money than the previous round. And that is the explanation for a beginner’s luck. It’s just our mindset.
Interesting thought and I agree with you in many ways about being a newbie. I even remember myself and my first online poker tournament where I managed to win real money, I think it was a freeroll for several hundred participants. Even now I find it hard to believe how I was able to win it with my weak level of play back then. It had a huge impact on me and I thought I was a poker genius, lol, it's really funny to remember now, but that's what it means to be a newbie. After that I thought that victories would come easy to me, but they never happened again, and gradually it brought me down to earth.