The book by Malcolm Gladwell - “Outliers” suggests that it takes on average about 10,000 hours of good practice to become world class at something. So you are right on track here.
There are about 2,000 work hours in a year. (40 hrs/week). So roughly 5 years of treating it like a job.
The...
Steve and I started playing about the same time and were part of the group of young players that played in a lot of tournaments and gambled around Denver in the 90s.
He was a great player and quickly worked his way from a C player to a AAA player by being in action all the time.
I was...
I was going to post something similar. The losers in a tournament are more important to the success of the tournament than the winner. Because the more losers the more money. But there is only one winner. And there will always be exactly one.
I was at a tournament one time and a friend of mine bought a big name player in the Calcutta. The player did not buy half himself. So he offered it to me. I bought in.
In the money round our player dogged his ass off to the guy he rode with. It could not have been more obvious.
I looked...