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Message: [QUOTE="Dobbler1, post: 6840290, member: 488187"] A great player? I don't think so. Any regular person (not cognitively impaired), with enough study and practice can probably become profitable, which is better than most players. Maybe even profitable enough to make it a viable career (maybe, but I'm not confident of that). Being a great player is a different story. If you're 5'2" tall, you're not going to be a great basketball player, no matter what. The same idea is true with poker. You need to have natural ability to deal with probability (something that humans are usually pretty bad at naturally), and a natural ability to understand human behavior, risk aversion, and decision making. Then you need to love playing enough to study and practice enough to become great. Probably you also need enough of a stake to build a bankroll big enough to play the best players. If you start out with $10, and that's literally all you can afford a month, you could make great decisions, and variance can get the worst of you, and you can go broke in a short amount of time without getting much practice in. If you're not practicing, you won't get great. If you're only playing low stakes players, you won't get great. So if you're super broke, and you start on a bad swing of luck, it could take a long time to build your skills and bankroll to a place where you could even start to play against great players. It's not a coincidence that many good players became wealthy by other means and then had success in poker. They could afford the best coaching and could learn at the highest levels of competition without fearing being able to pay their bills each month. [/QUOTE]

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