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Message: [QUOTE="Damondnotaplaye, post: 6995691, member: 1039924"] Long story short, my friend quit their job roughly 10 years ago (give or take 1-2 years). I suggested against it, but my friend was not enjoying work and was confident that they could make poker work. The plan was to use savings and play low stakes to become good. He lived with parents (and still do) so not much expenses. Fast forward, I moved to another town and we sort of lost contact. Now we are back in contact and I challenged my friend to a few games of poker. My friend knows all the lingo, he said we are playing headsup, and decided the blinds and everything. We didn't play for real money, it was just a chance for him to show what he learnt after all these years. I told him to not go easy on me and to play to win, because I wanted to see what he learnt, he promised to do so. I won the first headsup, slowly taking his pot away, I noticed that he tended to fold anytime I went all in so I just did that a lot. He called it luck/varriance and we went again, this time he won, we took a few days break and played a few more headsup days/weeks later (on online site). Now we are at a total of 6 games and I won 3, this is not to brag, this is worrying, I have no intention to become a poker player and I don't study poker. I went to visit my friend and asked him to play online like he normally does, he said sure and I watched him play maybe 4-5 hours. After all this time (grinding mostly 1-2 dollar buyins I think) he's down like 2 dollars. Not a lot, but at the same time dosn't show he has what it takes to win. I would say his style is mostly wait for a super strong hand, like AA or possible TT and then he always does the same, bet 3 BB, mostly people then fold and it's onto the next hand. I think people just notice he plays very tight and when he goes in they just be like "nah next hand..". He dosn't play many hands and it seems the blinds just eats most of his bankroll. He seems super afraid at the table as well, he had QQ and got like a third queen, he bet small, and the other player went all in. I assumed he had the best hand and I told him to call, but he figured the other played could have a straight and folded. Maybe he was correct, we don't know, but it dosn't seem like he want to take any risk or something. I asked if he ever plays tables with higher buyins, he said he dipped his feets some at 5 and even 10 dollar buyins but lost because players are so good there. He is also paying for a new coach now (unsure how many coaches he has had before) and was preparing to takle higher stakes. My question is basically is there a test or somehow I could figure out if my friend is actually good at poker? And am I correct in my assumptions that he probably should try something else if he can't make a profit after all these years? He say it takes lot of time to become good at poker, and I can sort of buy into that, it's a complicated game. I think maybe it can take a few years, but 10 years? [/QUOTE]

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