First of all, thanks for the responses.

"You need to be in the top 8 percent of poker players to be good enough to even beat the online game long term. (I'm not pulling that number out of my ass, thats the percentage of people online this past year who finished in the positive)."

I've been playing for more than 2 years, and, my first few months of horrible play notwithstanding, I have been a winner over thousands of hands. I am in the money over 40 percent of the time in Sit-n-Gos, and show a consistent profit. So I guess, I already am in that 8 percent. All of this while not taking the game as seriously as I could, occasionally playing drunk, etc. I'm a smart guy. I have a good head for numbers and the ability to work hard. With a little extra reading and a lot of extra hands, I think this is doable.

TMA