What characterizes a top poker player
What characterizes a top poker player? I am mainly thinking of online players.
1) highly intelligent
2) rarely tilt
3) disciplined mentality (connected with point 2)
4) hard work, putting in lots and lots of hands
5) many of them played a lot of computer games when they were younger but have now become tired of Quake and Starcraft and card games like Magic. (Can point towards that most are not "gamblers" but "gamers").
I think this is what seperates a player beating NL 25/50 from someone struggling at NL .5/1. Players who say they want to keep poker as a hobby and stay at 3/6 FL forever are lying.
Logic gets in the way. If a player could make $150k per year playing poker he would do it. But this player lacks talent. Poker is cold reality. Less skilled/talented players make less money. There are no excuses.
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