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I believe the qualities are: discernment, and technical ability.
Poker is a technical craft that also requires specific personal character traits such as courage and emotional control.
In engineering disciplines, it is common knowledge that the best are better by an order of magnitude when compared to the average. Poker is a highly technical craft much like engineering.
Poker also has this 'incomplete information" guesswork component. It turns out the very best law-enforcement detectives are better by an order of magnitude when compared to the average detective. These individuals are born with a level of discernment that allows them to read people very quickly. It is not a knack that is easily taught.
When you find an activity that you love to engage in, it is because you already have the knack. Add some real hard work and you can become a great one.
Poker is now 100% accessible to everyone worldwide via online play. In very large sample size of candidates, you are going to see some truly great ones emerge and rise quickly. That is what we are seeing. Introverts and others that may have avoided the game (or not had access to games) now can discover and even dominate this game.
One likely consequence of this is that truly astounding players are going to come out of nowwhere to dominate the game in as little as 1,2,3 years of serious high-volume play.
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