Rarer is not necessarily luckier

I was the beneficiary of two very lucky occurrences last night. I don't actually remember which happened first. For the sake of argument, let's say it was the hand when I flopped a full house. I waited for my opponent to bet, which he finally did on the river. I raised, he called, and I won a nice pot. The other lucky event was when I went all in with a split pair of kings, and my opponent turned over pocket rockets. I spiked a king on the river to survive. That put me in a great position to make the money, and I did. I got to thinking afterwards about which hand was luckier. No contest, it was the survival hand, even though the rarer hand was the flopped full house. Rarer is not necessarily luckier :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      82   21    11   456000

delta: $256,000
MTT NLHE balance: $21,830,668
2020 balance: $14,608,343
balance: $76,416,353