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Message: [QUOTE="primrose, post: 7157360, member: 1036998"] [B]You need to actually be good at the game.[/B] "I've played for 16 years" is not a qualification. There are regulars in the casino I play that have been there for longer than that, and they're still losing players. This is related to the [URL='https://www.cardschat.com/forum/learning-poker-57/whats-most-important-skill-in-poker-550903/']What's the Most Important Skill in Poker question[/URL] and my answer there. People have this tendency to treat it as a status question. You have to do XYZ to Earn being a professional. Like study for this amount of time. Study that amount of hours per day. Go to a school. Hire a coach. Do this. Do that. You don't have to do any of the above. If you're good at the game you're at the game, regardless of whether you did the Properly Respectable Things or not. If you're bad at the game you're bad at the game, even if you've played for decades, study the game, take it seriously, and even have a coach. And unfortunately it is very possible to do all that and still be bad, especially if what you're actually optimizing for is just looking good and justifying your play, rather than improving. I cannot stress enough how much of a problem this is. People's ego is by far their biggest obstacle to improving at Poker, not for everyone but on average. The only things you actually [I]have[/I] to do are (a) proper bankroll management (there is no way around this -- if you don't have bankroll management, variance will get you), and (b) keeping track of your results. (b) is also the only way you actually know whether you're a winning player. You need to keep track of your results, and if your results show that you're winning (across a sufficiently large sample), then you're winning. This is the only metric that counts. It doesn't matter whether you've played for 10 months or 10 years. Aside from those general points, I mean the most important question would be whether you want to be playing live or online, those two are widely different. [/QUOTE]

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