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[QUOTE="Ubercroz, post: 2344091, member: 56929"]
Hard work is 100% necessary to be as good as you can become.  However, you must be above the threshold of natural ability to be good enough to play poker at a high level.

Consider this, if someone is mentally handicapped, perhaps downs syndrome which is not terribly debilitating, then they are not going to have a number of the skills you need to be good at poker.  You need to be able to read situations, make inferences, and be able to make split second decisions.

People who have a higher natural ability at this will do better.  However over a certain threshold (good enough) it doesn't matter if you are smarter or better at math, or can make better people judgments.  You just have to be "good enough."  In my nobel prize example, "good enough" was a 135 IQ.  After a 135 IQ it didn't matter how smart you were.  It has more to do with work and effort.  If you don't have a 135 IQ, you are out of luck.  Sorry that's life.

Its the same in poker.  If you don't meet the threshold for greatness (which probably takes a number of factors that most people don't have enough of) then you will not be able to "work yourself" into that skill level.  But you probably do have the attributes to be "good enough" for lower levels of poker play.

I think people need to accept that most people are not going to be good enough to beat the highest levels.  But you are good enough to beat some level of poker.  Find out what that level is, it will take time, and beat it.  And have fun doing it.
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