Re: ten years to master a game
It may indeed take 10,000 hours of study to master the game but poker, unlike chess, lends itself more to the 80-20 rule: you can learn 80% of poker in 20% of the time. After your first 2000 hrs of study you could be a pretty good poker player and then spend a lot of time trying to become a master. For some, as with chess, there is no amount of study that will make you a master. It requires a "gift" to make it to the top. A big part of that "gift" is emotional control. Some people, and some "geniuses" will never be able to master this part of the game.
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