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Originally Posted by slappy813
By natural skill I just mean the ability to become as good as any other 2/5 - 5/10 full time player. Is it really that unrealistic though? At 2/5 you can buy in for 200BBs/$1000, all you have to do is double your money.
Ive been playing for less than 2 years, and only as a hobby, and ive had +10 sessions playing 1/1-2/5 stakes where ive profited 200-550BBs.
In that case, you definitely need to read the Bankroll Winrate and Finances (BR&F) thread. The general rule of thumb is that if your Winrate is 10BBs/hour, you are crushing the game. The example I gave above gave a huge winrate of 15BBs/hour, which only the very toppest players achieve long term, and even then you'd have to be playing marathon sessions to even average that big a win, and while some would be much bigger, there is no way you'd get there in all of them.
You seem to have no understanding of variance, and you need to. As I said in the thread I locked, please take this discussion to BR&F thread, and please read it first before you post.
You also need to keep accurate records of your poker results. I suspect that you are mentally "writing off" some sessions as bad luck or tilt, and thus not reflective of the way you "really" play. That's lying to yourself. Bad luck and tilt are part of the game. I tilted off 240BBs in my last session on an ill conceived bluff when a bad turn card came, and I've been doing this stuff seriously for years.