They Can’t Take Your Skills

<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of poker again lately. I was surprised to see that it&#8217;s been three years since I&#8217;ve played with any regularity.</p>

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<p>Back in 2015 and and early 2016, before our first son was born, I was playing a fair bit of cards. In fact I logged 494 hours of play between 1/1/2015 and 1/31/2016.</p>

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<p>After that I played only once when I was in northern Michigan visiting family. </p>

<p>Three years is a long time to not practice something, so I was unsure of how I&#8217;d play at first when starting up again. As you can see, I haven&#8217;t lost my poker playing skill.</p>

<p>I&#8217;ve played thousands of hours of poker. I started playing online in college and supported myself playing for a couple years post-college until I landed myself at a hedge fund in Chicago. </p>

<p>On top of the thousands of hours of play, I&#8217;ve probably spent just as much time talking over hands with a good friend, replaying them over and over, analyzing what could have been done better whether I&#8217;d won or lost.</p>

<p>This is how a skill is formed. And it&#8217;s hard to lose something that you&#8217;ve put so much time and effort into.</p>

<p>It&#8217;s no different than trading, but people don&#8217;t seem to grasp that. I see folks attracted to trading all the time, looking for a quick/easy way to make money or get rich. <br><br>It doesn&#8217;t happen like that, and the market will quickly churn through those folks. </p>

<p>Some people come to just take a shot, just like they do at the poker table. And it may work in the short-term. That&#8217;s the element of luck. But over the medium and long-term those are the folks paying me off.</p>

<p>Don&#8217;t be the sucker.</p>
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