Ong's December blog.

I don't think that variance gets better, I expect to deal with tilt better. Tilt is surely a small issue in everyone's game. Are you telling me that you play your A-game 100% of the time? If no, then you are subject to tilt.

What determines if I can be a professional poker player or not is if I am making enough money. Tilt is a barrier, but not an impassable one.

Originally Posted by OngBonga

Are you telling me that you play your A-game 100% of the time? If no, then you are subject to tilt.

No, I'm telling you that I am not a professional poker player because I, like you, do get affected by tilt from time to time.

99.9% of poker players could never make it as professionals for a number of reasons. Tilt is one of them - you have to have an improbably high tolerance of variance to play poker full time, something that the vast, VAST majority of people don't have.