How much time did it take you to become successful?

[Rev. Good Will]

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not to sound cocky, but pretty much since i started. like i always say "i'm not that good, but they're so much worse."

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same for me, though I got plenty of practice playing unhuman amounts of limit play money [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] (to be fair, as soon as I turned 18, I started real)

[MrWookie47]

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not to sound cocky, but pretty much since i started. like i always say "i'm not that good, but they're so much worse."

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word.

same for me, though I got plenty of practice playing unhuman amounts of limit play money [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] (to be fair, as soon as I turned 18, I started real)

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I did the play money thing, too. I'm naturally very risk averse, so I wanted to make damn sure that poker was a winning proposition before I played for real money.

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I read Hellmuth's book (btw, burn in hell Hellmuth), put in $100 at Paradise, ran hot for the first 500 hands or so, and thought I was God's gift to poker. Then I lost it all redeposited. And redeposited. And redeposited.


[/ QUOTE ] Heh I know what that feels like, I bought Hellmuth's book too and took a beating at 1/2, lost $100 of a $200 deposit after I stopped running hot. Stopped playing, bought Lee Jones' book, won my money back, and have been slowly improving ever since. SSHE is probably the best investment I made for my poker game.

[Deamon2]

assuming that now I am playing winning poker (I suspect that I am, 14k hands in at .5/1 running at 2.7 BB/100), it took me about a year to do it. And it wasn't easy.