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Message: [QUOTE="Veralt, post: 6939638, member: 1031609"] I'll stick with being a beginner player; it suits me. However, there's something about poker that I find hard to grasp. I'm used to there being an Elo rating or a ranking system in any discipline I play or compete in, to gauge my level. For example, if you play chess, you can state a number, and others will have a good idea of your level or how good you are. Now, in poker, I never quite know when I can confidently identify myself as good. Regardless of the results, I'll always wonder if it was just a series of exceptions or genuine skill. The small steps are very hard for me to measure because to determine if you've improved or not, it takes a lot of time and quantity of games. And that without taking into account the variable that the people you play with may be changing. [/QUOTE]