How good can you get if you start at age 40?

[renfurdson]

I'm 42 years old and I've only been seriously trying to get good at poker for about a year.

I know for sure that if the game in question were chess or basketball, I would have little chance of becoming a very good player, starting at this advanced age. And of course I would have no chance at all to become a professional player.

It seems that many of the successful online players started at a young age.

I would love to hear from people who started playing poker in mid-life and have become winning players.