[Xenod]

I'll bite on the topic. I have 3 other friends that play poker online, all very smart people. We've read all the "good" books and discussed their relative merits at length. Three of us(thankfully me included) have been successful online. Are we swimming in cash, no, but after a year of playing we have at least 20 times our initial deposit.


My other friend isn't a bad player. He uses solid strategy, but for whatever reason never had a big breakthrough. I think that strategy gets you only so far and you need a little "something" to get past that point. You need have a solid feel for when to ignore the "correct" strategy and make some kind of balls-out move, either because you have a good read on the player or you have a lot of gamble in you.