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I read this book, Dan Harrington - Hold'em poker No Limit. If you are a novice, but had at least some practice, look it up. Its the best thing out there. and yet somehow, there is only one winner for every 50 losers. Start off with some facebook poker, it's fun and doesn't use real money.

The trouble with trying to learn with virtual money games is that there's a lot of people on there that will play stupidly because there's no risk. So you get lots of people on their office lunch break who go "welp 2 mins left, might as well go all in with my random cards".

You have to play the real money tables to learn how the real money tables work. They do not work like the virtual money ones.

I spent a month playing poker with play money when I first found the game. Then I spend a month a marginal loser becoming a break even player at micro table. About a month after that I was a decent winner. Now its mostly grinding, very little left to learn at these stakes.
  
Getting good at a game is a matter of practice, self-honesty, and quality of practice. There is no such thing as an innate bonus to your poker ability. It's a retarded idea.

Making any kind of serious money at poker is going to take more practice and reading than you are willing to put in though. It will take months at the very least to become a profitable player. Even then you will go on downswings where you can lose over a thousand a day. You also have to get used to grinding for like 9-10 hours a day where you making any profit is questionable. It takes a LOT of willpower and discipline to get profit; not luck.

Poker will either build your character or destroy it. I've seen it affect a few people positively (including myself)... but for the vast majority it turns them into desperate addicts obsessed with money and angles.  Even though I made good money off of it in college (just under $25k, and I was a very tilty player so my downswings drag that figure down significantly) it was too tiring for me to continue with it.

With dedication and willingness to grind, you can make about $8-10 an hour 24 tabling .01/.02 on pokerstars. It just becomes one long grind after a while... and you realise that you'd be better off putting your efforts into a real career where you aren't surrounded by degenerates.

if you're looking for advice on how to read people's expressions, fuck you, if it doesn't come naturally to you then it probably won't come at all

If you're looking for theoretic advice (probability theory, etc.) then you won't find much other than things telling you that it's a stupid fucking idea. for example, the borel-cantelli lemma promises that you will eventually go bankrupt if you gamble for long enough

Poker is a fun game every once in a while but only a dumbass would consider it as a profession