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Your poker skills are tested every time you sit down with money at a table.

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Its not really a test, since many times you get punished for your good moves and rewarded for your mistakes, so winning is not a confirmation for good play and neither is losing a confirmation for bad play

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You are being tested in the sense that you have the opportunity to apply what you have learned.

It is true that you cannot use short term results as the "grade" for the test, but you can evaluate whether or not you are making good poker decisions (e.g., making the proper play based on your odds) and how successful/unsuccessful you are at adjusting your play to other players (e.g., did the maniac put you on tilt or did you trap him? did you value bet vs. a calling station or did you try to bluff him?).