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How many hands do you think you need to play before deciding that you're just not good enough to be a winning poker player? Anyone have any insight?
 
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I think after 50k hands you can generally tell if you are playing well or running bad. Maybe 100k would give you a definite I'm good or not sample size.
 
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How many hands do you think you need to play before deciding that you're just not good enough to be a winning poker player? Anyone have any insight?

I can deduce from your question formulation that you will be winning poker player if you chose to be one. So zero hand to say you are able.
 
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if you play 3 months every day, it is to average 1200 games to 1500 for months .. you will have a media if you are a winner or a loser, after that, just study and adjust your game to get better results.
 
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Your question is more suited for asking your therapist than any online forum.
If you were inclined to do an in-depth analysis of say, the top 100 professional poker players in the world, you will most likely have to look through hundreds of thousands of hands if not more, to get any substantial conclusion.
But Probably, this question really is about your lack of fully understanding the game and the math. [IMHO]
 
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You can not tell how many people happen to be playing, as well as being patient
 
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You can think of gathering a large sample of hands and analyzing your results, then study more and repeat the process. You'll always have a way to improve your game.
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It is very hard to say long sample helps but you just need to keep educating yourself but if your bank roll increases regularly, then closer to a winning player than not
 
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First of all, what you believe you are is going to go along ways toward being a winning player, or a loser. When you are running good, all is great, and you may think you are a winner, and that's how you should think, but that can be a self made trap, because you will play many hands that should be folded, and sooner or later you will get trapped and lose some or all of what you have won. Then maybe it all goes down hill, and you start doubting yourself as a good player. So you went from a good player to a bad player in a short time. The best thing you can do is not to think of yourself one way or another, but to KNOW the player you are, and keep it there. Don't over or under rate your play skills. When you start doing that, you will see what you need to work on to better those skills, and I assure you that the main one to work on is knowing the hands to play and the ones to muck. So HOW MANY HANDS PLAYED will tell you nothing, but HOW MANY FOLDED will tell you everything. "Fold and live to fold again"
 
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It's not about the title, the label good or bad. It's about how willing are you to analyse facts about your game, how willing are you to studying plays or articles. It's about growth and change, just like athletes do.

A few thousands hands are enough to have an idea, but how you're going to fix your mistakes? How can we see beyond those labels and improve?
 
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First of all, what you believe you are is going to go along ways toward being a winning player, or a loser. When you are running good, all is great, and you may think you are a winner, and that's how you should think, but that can be a self made trap, because you will play many hands that should be folded, and sooner or later you will get trapped and lose some or all of what you have won. Then maybe it all goes down hill, and you start doubting yourself as a good player. So you went from a good player to a bad player in a short time. The best thing you can do is not to think of yourself one way or another, but to KNOW the player you are, and keep it there. Don't over or under rate your play skills. When you start doing that, you will see what you need to work on to better those skills, and I assure you that the main one to work on is knowing the hands to play and the ones to muck. So HOW MANY HANDS PLAYED will tell you nothing, but HOW MANY FOLDED will tell you everything. "Fold and live to fold again"



Interesting. I think I like this response the best. Thanks man
 
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You'll always have a way to improve your game.GL
 
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