Texas holdem

Poker isn't "gambling" in the colloquial sense any more than stock/crypto trading is. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other humans - the same humans who trust every word that Wolf Blitzer says and the same humans who buy their meat at Acme. In other words it can be a good gig.

While Bovada/Ignition isn't nearly as easy as pre-2010, it's still fairly soft MTTs and 6ring.

Nothing will beat those days though. Not even when it goes full legal as there will be too many good players about.

The problem is even pre-2010 when everyone was shit, the good people were shit as well. The whole game has advanced.

if you're playing 1/2 live and have a good (8bb/100) winrate, youre still making under $20 a hour.

i love the game though. if i make it big from crypto im going to invest a lot more time into studying poker theory. right now im crushing home games (winning $26/hour at .25/.5 over 80 hours, a lot of run good, but still I'm ready to move up in stakes)

online and live are different beasts. live=easy $, online=breakeven/slightly profitable

Hate to break it to you but 8bb/100 live at 1/2 is under $5 an hour. Live is only 25 hands/hour. Thankfully win rates are way higher than online, in general.

It's fucking rigged you stupid fuck. Are you insane?

There are countless videos on YouTube, even the ones where it's a video of a real person dealing, they're still rigged.

i don't anymore, haven't for a long time, played a lot during the golden era like over 10 years ago - can't even remember now, maybe 2005?

I started online, $1/2NL and worked my way upto $10/20, profited a ton but I was never really a big multitabler, upto 4 at once usually. Eventually started going to the local casino and playing pretty much exclusively live, did that for about 2 years full time, more than full time actually, about ~14-18 hours a day, 6-7 days a week. Best nights were always weekends, Fri/Sat against the drunks. Made a lot more live, tons of bad regs and drunks. Amassed a small fortune, but ultimately I stopped due to burnout and boredom. I had drifted away from poker near the end and started fucking around with blackjack and other games and started losing quite a bit of money. Started feeling depressed just going to the casino, had no joy/pleasure playing poker anymore, sort of like having a job you can't stand going to every day.

I should have moderated my play time so I didn't experience such brutal burnout but it is what it is. Haven't really played any poker or stepped into a casino in like 7-8 years.

It isn't though, you're not a good player.

Poker sites make far more off players being rake cattle than scamming Joe Blow out of his $100 deposit

Don't know what the fuck you're talking about, you would need to be more specific. People definitely cheat, there are bots, sites occasionally cheat and of course there's the risk of superusers, etc. but the RNG's in general aren't rigged. If it was rigged then why did I make all that money from it?

You should try playing for old time sake one of these days. Stay away from casino games though, jesus. Can I ask what are you doing now?

Ya I mean I've played a few games here and there for fun, still gives me a bad feeling, really ruined it for myself by playing too much back then. Plus I think the game has evolved a lot, based on the little I've read online and books I've glanced at, concepts that were once considered "advanced" (if anyone considered them at all) are like intro-level shit now, stuff like putting your opponent on ranges, and considering blockers (more so), that wasn't even much of a thing like 12 years ago, whereas now if you don't know that shit you're basically a noob. I'm sure I could become at least a mediocre player again with a slight edge but I don't really want to put in the effort for something I don't think I'd enjoy doing.

I agree about staying away from other casino games, I knew it back then as well, like I said it was out of sheer boredom and burnout that I decided to start fucking with them just to spice up my life. I think I lost $50k in one week playing blackjack which is basically when I quit poker/going to casino.

After that I didn't do much for a couple years. Eventually just started a few businesses. Made a subscription-based seedbox type business that was netting me around $60k/year, I ended up selling that business. Later I started a construction company (my dad was a lifelong contractor, I learned how to build houses working with him at various times in my life) anyway I built that up to where I had about 35 employees and was making great money off that for about 5+ years.

Now I'm basically retired, but not really super rich, have enough that if I live modestly I won't have to work again, but if I get to where I want lambos an shit (don't see it happening though) I'd have to generate more money. Kind of why I'm fucking around in crypto now as a hobby just to see what happens.

That's a fucking sweet comeback, congrats. I'm contemplating heading off the beaten path to some extent for the first time in several years. Plan would be to do poker and with the increased free time start trying to start a business or two.

Ya that sounds good man. Like I said I have no idea how profitable the poker landscape is these days but if you think you have an edge and can make profits that are worth the time you're committing then that's cool, more so if you enjoy playing. Just don't ever delude yourself, I knew so many guys who loved poker but were losing players, they'd tell themselves time after time they were just unlucky so they'd rebuy over and over. Some of them were burning through inheritance money, another guy I knew who had won a big lawsuit from an automobile accident and he blew through most of that losing at poker. Really sad to see.

Definitely good to go the entrepreneurial route too. Just have confidence in yourself. Don't make excuses. You don't have to know how to do everything, or be the best at everything. Hell you can straight up suck ass at certain aspects of business and still be a great entrepreneur. You also don't have to reinvent the wheel - like when I did the subscription seedbox business there were already a bunch out there, but I just gave it 100%, committed all my time to it, and turned it into a well-oiled machine with basically no flaws, near perfect customer service, ensured almost 100% uptime, competitive/cheap pricing, and the cash just rolled in despite me being just one of many service providers. In hindsight I actually sort of regret selling and moving on from that one since I think I could have scaled it up 2-3x+ more at the time and been passively making ~$120-180k/year.

Anyway go for it dude, especially if you're young, don't be afraid of failure either. Losing $2k here or $5k there might sting but in the grand scheme it's nothing, and even when you do fail you'll gain knowledge and experience which will make your next attempt that much better. Sounds like some cliche shit I know but it's what I believe and what worked for me.

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This is how my graph looks over 1000 hours of play at 1/2 NL live. I make like 20/hr before tips.

LLinusLLove is a new figure in the nosebleeds nowadays. Different strategy than what is meta-standard.

i can make that in one month playing 200nl L O L

Here's my current graph over 36k hands at 2nl. I just started taking it seriously about 3 weeks ago, I'll post a graph in a second over my overall tracked online so far. I'm kind of new to online, but have played live a lot. Only coming to find that I'm a pretty decent fish! lol.

Here's my overall online, includes one shot at 200nl, some 5nl, and 2nl. You can (hopefully) see in the graph where I started to finally take my online play seriously. I've been tracking it and posting videos of my progress to youtube and will keep doing so. Plan is to keep grinding using 50BI BRM strategy up the stakes, don't care how long it takes. Doing it more for "da dream" than for the cash.

Poker is a retarded game that is 100% luck. The cards dictate who wins, and you can't play enough hands live in a lifetime to hit the "long term" so to speak. Any winning you are actually having is due purely to having good luck.

broke for about 1500 with PLO50
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plz help

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Bait or are you actually a complete mongoloid?

I really enjoy it, so a few months ago I started playing online with the goal of making it a fun and profitable hobby. Studied a lot and was making money, then it was suddenly banned in Australia.

>not even 100k hands

You're just luckboxing atm

Most highstakesregs have caught on
OhHeyCindy himself stated, that suddenly "everyone plays like Linus"