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Originally Posted by Stake Monster
yes but those are skills acquired previous to playing through experience, education, etc.. it's not a natural thing. it was learned. I can't think of a single skill used in poker that cannot be taught through experience or teaching
(english isn't my first language so i might word some of the wrongly)
- logical reasoning
- an analytic way of solving problems
- the ability to sit still and focus in front of a computer screen for 2 hours at once
- the 'ability' to not go crazy having little human contact during an important part of your life (work)
- the ability to be able to deal with distorted feedback (performance only marginally linked with results in the sort term)
- having a brain that can handle winning/losing better (less worse is probably a better term) than average - not the same as the previous one
- ... (hell, i wouldn't be surprised if work ethic was genetically determined to a significant extent)
surely all of this abilities can be learned, but that doesn't mean there isn't an element of natural talent (ie a genetic disposition) in everyone of these. tbh i don't see how you can even start arguing that poker takes no natural talent >< i don't see any difference between arguing that poker takes no natural talent and arguing weightlifting takes no natural talent
pulled out of thin air example:
person A starts with a brain that releases 2 amount of 'makeyoufeelbaddon'tdothisanymore' energy everytime he loses a poker hand. after 3 years of professionaly playing online poker, he gets so used to losing that his brain releases only 1 amount of 'makeyoufeelbad' energy everytime he loses a (big) hand
person B starts with a brain that releases 4 amount of 'makeyoufeelbaddon'tdothisanymore' energy everytime he loses a poker hand. after 3 years of professionaly playing online poker, he gets so used to losing that his brain releases only 2 amount of 'makeyoufeelbad' energy everytime he loses a (big) hand
both persons learned, both persons 'trained', but person A was a much better fit for a professional poker playing career when he started it and he still is after 3 years