Quote Originally Posted by oskar
I've been playing online for a year and a half... I started from 0 and currently I'm not very far off. I play an average of 3 hours a week with month long breaks in between. A rough estimate is that I've played 100k hands online so far - in 18 months.
That involved a lot of learning by doing. I'm pretty sure you can play a top-10 sklansky hand selection and you'll have a hard time not to make a profit, but most people want to figure stuff out by themselves and that can be a long process.

For anyone to get good at anything it takes DAILY practice. If you want to learn something you have to put in at least an hour every day, and that's true for pretty much everything you can do. If you have the time to play an hour of poker a day, you'll learn in 6 months what other people won't learn in a lifetime, but not everybody has the time and ambition to do that.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, the fact of the matter is the wheel has been invented. Granted, we would not have rocket ships planes etc. if we had just stopped there. However, that process was a long line of fails before it was perfected. Mostly with work done by people with a lot of background in those areas. I would not recommend trying to invent teleportation devices without having a strong understanding of the theories and procesess involved.

You understand why you have not succeeded you simply do not or have not put the time in. This is what I'm trying to get other players to understand