What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Give me some one-liners. What's the biggest thing you associate your success with?

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Bad players.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Ran well in poker genetics 28 years ago.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Studied my @$$ off.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Not eating from the trash.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

Seriously though, my parents playing strategy games with me from as early as I can remember.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

pure, unadultered luck.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

[ QUOTE ]
Ran well in poker genetics 23 years ago.

[/ QUOTE ]

and

[ QUOTE ]
Studied my @$$ off.

[/ QUOTE ]

My limit poker history /experience is largely the latter.
My original introduction to poker - 3 years of winning in small-stakes live nl games at college based on an entirely instinctual understanding of the game and a roughly 40/10 style - makes me grateful for the former.

Surf

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

uhm theres not a straddle button on the internet, haha.

Re: What Would You Attribute to Your Success?
 

I'm really really good at sucking out.

Also, I've always been very smart and good at games and puzzles. I also used to play M:TG so I had some experience with the concept of reading hands and thinking how your actions on one turn would affect later ones, both of which are very applicable to poker.