Why don't you become an online poker professional?
>You are your own boss
>Total meritocracy (ie the sole determinant of your results is your skill level, no politics)
>being autistic isn't a detriment
Been in the field for 10 years now. Wondering why interest has been drying up recently
I supported myself while on unemployment after I got out of the Army and made about $12,000 after expenses in about 8 months playing 1-1-2$ poker. I just quit my job to start my own company, and I'm feeling the urge to get back into poker again; I was big into competitive gaming when I was younger and the skills transfer pretty well to poker.
How'd you lose the 40k, senpai?
Also, where can an autistic poorfag NEET get started?
Coach me for 100NL?
>don't know how to play well, can't even win small tables
>if i tried really hard i'd be an amateur still, never being able to make a living
>i've probably played a few thousands hands, enough to know it's not for me.
>I can make money with very little risk in bull markets (stocks, shitcoins)
Ok I'll take this bait
What is your strategy? Ho many hands are you playing on average per day? That you when you are in red?
He took a shot at higher limits and got raped.
yeah how to start? Is there any almost-guarantee strategy?
I was always pretty good playing with fake money, I used to play all the time online. I know there's a big difference between fake/real money, but I know the structure of the game pretty well. Are there any decent legit online BTC casinos out there? And another question, do you ever play in casinos? How're they? I'm near a casino but I've never played in that setting, only home games/online.
Waiting for FunFair so I have something to put trust into.
>1-1-2
looks like you were playing live. I'm sure you could jump right back in and be doing pretty well as low stakes live is always pretty profitable, ie lots of drunks and tourists just fucking around. I'd give it another go, if just for fun on the weekends, if I were you
Got an amateur to play me at 25/50 (5k buy in) and got rammed. c'est la vie
As a total beginner, I'd check out the twoplustwo forums. Its a board where you can find some basic strat discussion and tons of poker related shitposting
you playing intl sites or american sites? I haven't play international sites since 2014 so my coaching would be no good for a ROW player
I study what optimal poker strategy is using bots and try to implement it in real time when I play. Much easier said than done, especially considering I'm playing No limit holdem (ie you can choose any bet size at any time.) When I discover mistakes my opponent is consistently making, I deviate from what I suppose optimal strat is to maximally exploit their weaknesses. You can study these exploitable strategies with software as well.
I play on average 4-6 hours a day, counting off days. I don't take many days off and at least log a few hours a day.
correctamundo
Negative sum game, bad risk/reward.
Impressive that you stepped back down and recovered.
can make more off crypto now
Yes, play money is no where near as competitive as real money online. There are some sites to gamble with btc online but those are mostly populated by techy nerds and not the sort of population you want to be fishing for when playing online (ie you want to be playing with dumbass donators.)
What casino are you nearby? I can tell you if they have decent poker games. In some areas of the US I would recommend almost anyone with above avg intelligence take a short learning poker, in others its a waste of time. Really depends on your locate.
Personally I play online 99% of the time. I can play multiple tables and win against most competition as I've studied the game for a decade now. Live poker games have much easier competition than online, but I also have to factor in that I can only play one table a time, have to tip the dealer for every time I win a hand, and travel time/expenses.
>Wondering why interest has been drying up recently
Because the US banned online poker.
All hands in graph played on US networks. Online poker is fully legalized/regulated in NV, NJ and DC. Outside of that, extralegal sites offer real money online poker to most states in the USA (see bovada/ignition)
America's cardroom, chico network, grand network, carbon poker, the list goes on
I played for several years in mid 2000s. Then I started making exponentially higher hourly rate by exploiting casino signup bonuses that were +EV
made about a million USD doing that over the course of 5 years till it dried up after the feds banned online gambling in the US.
blew most of that money away living in vegas during those years. if only I had saved it all and put it into bitcoin in 2009....
How many tables are you playing?
>There are some sites to gamble with btc online but those are mostly populated by techy nerds and not the sort of population you want to be fishing for when playing online (ie you want to be playing with dumbass donators.)
US facing sites mostly only give you BTC as an option anymore. Or rather, I guess I'm just that nerdy grinder
Because its 90% folding.
By the time I got into online poker the poker bonus whoring scene had pretty much dried up. Where were you finding your spots for +ev online casino bonus whoring, if you don't mind me asking?
Live casino bonus whoring and slot grind is still alive. I know a few people who do that and still make 100-200k/yr doing that, flying around to wherever they find their spots
Nice graph user.
I played extensively from 2006-2011 first year or so was going bust and being a fish. But after a while I sorted it out and grinded 1-2nl pretty well. Cashed in a few tornies. Won the PKR masters and their 30k tornie. Poker allowed me to get a deposit down on a house and buy into a partnership that owns subway franchises in my city. This all came at the cost of playing silly hours. On a side note, the rake back was sweet. Pkr had the highest per cent back then.
I got bored of playing really, much prefer using the time for creative endeavours
>Made close to a million dollars 10 years ago
How fucking interesting is your life?
Usually around 6 if I'm playing 6 player tables. If I'm playing heads up (1v1) I try to keep it at 2-3 maximum.
seals with clubs and nitrogen poker offer gambling denominated in BTC. Those are the btc games I'm talking about. Most other sites you can deposit and wd in btc but are denominated in btc and generally offer sportsbooks as well (bovada, carbon.) The latter sites usually have easier competition as they have sportsbetting gamblers willing to throw away their winnings at poker, so I'd opt for those
Sounds like you made poker work for you pretty well sir, WP
played PKR a bit myself when I was abroad. Games were great for some time but since the network has dissolved. That site really was shit to multitable on, not to mention trying to load up any other site while on there, haha
>I got bored of playing really,
thats the problem with getting good at the game... once you are good at it. its boring as all hell and hence "a grind"
Yeah in the early days it was a gold rush, just a shame I missed most of it by being the fish!
It went beyond that, having a piss bottle and a funnel by your pc because you couldn't move from multitabling was one reason I stopped.
Mostly the time, I never made social events due to mtts and the best times to make money on cash tables were evenings and weekends. I lost friends and became a slob.
Now I'm Veeky Forums semi retired and spend most of my days painting or going to classes on woodworking and trades. Then work on my house.
private forums, word of mouth within a peer network.
I had employees running a dozen virtual machines each running bots I had written to automate the gameplay. It was glorious
did you ever drink the piss?
not very anymore lol. now I am a systems engineer in cloud computing field, regretting the years I could have been accumulating crypto
I also ran a little e-commerce site accepting bitcoins in 2011 and had over 450 bitcoins from customer purchases but sold almost all of them to fund the operation.