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There are many other great poker variants besides NLHE, and most of them require an amount of skill at least equal to that of NLHE. In fact, very few pro's make a living out of playing NLHE.

I have only played in real life up to now, always NL Texas Hold'em 5 to 20€ buy-in. I started studying books about 2 weeks ago. Right now I'm mainly focussing on The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky (pretty heavy stuff but a must read). My favourite pro's are Barry Greenstein, Ted Forrest &...

This is insane:

Yeah 52 cards. Here a nice example of the mental calculations good players do. You probably don't understand all the terms used, but you'll get the hang. :) Bob figures that there are 15 cards in the deck that would make his hand very strong.Any eight or three would make a straight, and...

Estimating the odds of you or one of your opponents to have the best hand, and linking them to the pot size. It's way more mathematical than one would think.

Observation and mental calculation.

No, it actually requires a lot of skill to be a good poker player.