Can you turn professional poker player through playing home games?

[magnus2022]

If you want to turn professional poker player, play games that involves financial commitments. Home games are mostly played with near zero stakes. Home games lacks competitive edge that will quicken your thinking and put some pressures on you. Losing few bucks will help a poker player to redefine his approach. Secondly, you are too familiar with the players and their playing patterns. But in cash games you will be different players with diverse playing strategies.
Through my personal experience, i realized that home games makes you dormant, unresponsive to changing game patterns because you have not to lose?
what's your thought on this?

 

[Kross]

I know the stakes are so low when you play poker home games. But I tend to place home games on a very high pedestal. I am hoping to be a pro poker player some day and home games have given me much value in that regards. With home games, I always have the chance to experiment new strategies that I learn online without the pressure and fear of financial losses. I think home games played a major role in my quick tests of all those poker theories I learned online.