[chezlaw]

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If you go to the website, pokerbustouts.com, you will learn that some of them supported themselves for many years, and at least one ran his bankroll to over $700,000. Others won major tournaments, including WSOP events.

You must face up to one reality: NOBODY with extensive experience in the world of poker believes it is easy to make it as a pro. We differ on how difficult it is, and what percentage of wannabes fail, but ALL of us know that most of them don't make it.

Regards,

Al

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Just because someone supported themselves for a few years and/or did well in a few big tournaments does not mean they are winning players. Live tournaments are high variance and have lottery type wins so the illusion of being a winning player is, for many, just that an illusion.

Again, were any ever really beating the game for enough to support their lifestyle and have enough resources to handle the variance.

Its an important question because if they didn't then there only chance of surviving was to get very lucky. Compare this to the type of winning online pro I've been asking you about, who can statisically prove they are beating the game for enough over 100,000's of hands and who have enough resources to handle the much smaller variance.

Can you really not see the difference?

chez

BTW I never said it was easy.