Quote from: TheGeorge on November 21, 2015, 04:05:27 PM

Quote from: maku on November 21, 2015, 01:48:50 PM

Quote from: Blithe on November 21, 2015, 01:44:11 PM

Talented poker players acquire their skill from thousands upon thousands of hands of experience such as playing for practice online. If you continue to play poker with discipline and an open mind, your chances of playing to others is a big advantage.

Poker players with that skill and experience are probably minority smaller than 1% of all poker player base. I know some poker players who are playing for 10+ years an are not even close to the tournament level.
It is more like personal skill and you can't learn it even if you spend your whole life on it.

It is very difficult to be a professional poker player. Most people cannot live on playing poker. Maybe 1% of poker player can live on that. 1 professional poker player lives on 99 non professional ones.
Not many people can learn the skill to play poker profitably.

Yeah it is hard, many people can probably work very hard on poker and become skillful enough to be +ev. The problem is how much can they then make anyway, you have to value your time to a certain degree, you can make $1-2 an hour on the street begging.