Am I Actually Good At Poker or just Lucky? (Be Honest)
I've recently started playing poker a few months ago and have gotten really into it and have played about 150k hands on Ignition at 5NL, 10NL, and now recently 25NL (only about 10k hands) I don't know my exact win rates or stats because I haven't invested in a HUD or PT4 yet, but Ive won about $650 playing the micros. I have a decent understanding of fundamentally sound play and when to bluff but I've never really studied I guess. I watch poker all the time and it's helped me get better but I know there is so much I don't know. I am a naturally analytical person and am very good at math so maybe that's contributed to some success but idk. Am I just on a huge heater or do I have enough of a sample size to prove that I have a consistent win rate?
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my guess is you probably have good potential, could be a heater, could be exploiting the pool pretty well intuitively, you'll need to study as you move up though, eventually you might hit a roadblock, also downswings are inevitable, this is when you'll really be put to the test, if you can stick to proper bankroll management during downswings and not tilt off stacks you should do just fine
How many tables do you play simultaneously?
Good job! Poker is the hardest card game on a professional level, in my opinion. And it looks impossible nowadays to learn it without studing, reading at least something. Same as you can't become a professional in any other type of activity without learning "techniques" of playing, without learning strategies that developed million people before us. Only after you master this, you got a chance to find something new yourself, to use your talent on a high level. Will you manage to learn a deep play on a pro level? How fast? This is the talent!
150 000 hands is a huge distance to check your real win rate, btw, in my opinion.
I usually play 4 reg tables or occasionally when I play fast fold I play 2
