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Not really.
You don't want to win every hand, you want to win often enough that you can keep coming back.
For example, the Allies had broken the Axis codes and knew when and where they'd attack. The problem they had was that if they prevented every attack, sooner or later the Axis would figure out their messages were being intercepted and change codes.