And it may be very expensive to find out for sure. In video poker, you know at the outset what any hand will cost. You rarely know this in real poker, unless you or a sole opponent is close to going all in. A good mathematician will do well at video poker. A good psychologist, who happens to be inscrutable, will do better at regular poker.
Social skills are largely unnecessary at video poker.
You do not always have enough live players to make up a poker game, and the first game that is made up may not be to your liking. However, live poker games may be found in thousands of cities every night. However strategy charts can be extremely useful at video poker. And most casinos allow you to use them. I'll continue this discussion next week.