Is it still viable to learn this game with the long term goal of leaving your job and make a living from poker

Is it still viable to learn this game with the long term goal of leaving your job and make a living from poker

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Online? Absolutely not. Especially with the regulation in America. Live? For sure. To make a decent living, you have to be a winning player at $5/10 imo, check out Andrew Neeme on Youtube to see what life as a poker player would be

Yes but on PokerStars is the avg skill level very high, trie to find soft games on gambling sites that also have roulette or the best football betting.

Learn online... when you can beat most people online from knowing the stats, go test your feet in public setting. If you can duplicate and read real people like you can online then you can grind and make some money. The big money will not happen unless you can afford to buy into some major tournaments and beat everyone you play who is just as practiced as you are. Basically, you either have it by that point or you don't. If you don't get even half way through a tournament, then you probably don't. So, it's not the greatest idea unless you are really good at memorizing statistics and reading people. There are better ways to invest your time and money that aren't gambling.

I made my living out of poker for around 2 years grinding .10/.25 and I gotta tell you, it's a lot more boring than any fucking office job

Played Hu 10 dollars for a few months sociopath now lol

why dont you go just a little higher

This.

Having 10 games open for 5 hours a day was one of the most boring and tedious things I have ever done in my life.
It enabled me to make 50k at the age of 18 though.
Poker is easy enough to learn to a point where it doesn't even require thought.

this, the amount of time you have to spend learning you could just get a real skill and make more money more consistently.

Most stories you hear about online poker are from the glory days before Black Friday. It is going to be nearly impossible to beat for you at this point at any decent stakes now due to how good everyone is. Live games are the only places still soft enough you can make a living.

im actually pretty decent i dont start from scratch. I've played for a living years ago and gave up because i was tired of it but now i regret it. its been years though and i hear everybody whining about how hard it is now so i wonder if its still worth it

PokerStars is rigged. Would you trust these shady looking people who shills for PokerStars? (pic)
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I'm making a living from live poker. Learned the game a long time ago and came back from a 5 year break to do it, so that's definitely possible. I wouldn't recommend it as a long term plan because AI advances may change the landscape of the game dramatically over the next decade. It's great as a supplemental income to a job, though, or as a way to transition between jobs.

Wait for funfare

>not playing 21 instead

It's like you hate money

Learn the game now. I predict a second online poker boom in the US in the next couple of years. The catalyst will be truly decentralized, rake-free, p2p blockchain poker. It was originally built into early bitcoin clients but never fleshed out. Satoshi wants to bring it back, to Bitcoin Cash. This will be a killer app for crypto, scereenshot this.

It is possible especially if you are naturally gifted and have like an intuitive understanding of game theory. However, don't think of it as some get rich quick or easy lifestyle. If you want poker to be your job, it'll have to be your job. You will spend hours and hours playing every day, not to mention the research into strategy and theory. The memorising of different ranges, watching and analysing pro players... it is a hard road and it will take consistent effort. But yes, it is possible.

Online poker is essentially a solved game, and live poker has too much variance. Sorry OP, you missed your chance 10 years ago.

Only heads up is a solved game

This is my mates poker career for the last 2 years. I wish he's just become a wage cuck.

There's a big problem with preventing people from cheating using different devices and addresses to join a single game i.e. to play with multiple hands. So far the only real way around this is very thorough KYC to verify identities, which is more invasive than most crypto holders would like. Not saying it's not solvable, but it's a big hurdle to get over.


Basically, once you memorize the probabilities of certain hands and learn to read the game flow, it gets so trivially easy. Play live poker with actually skilled players is completely different, since it turns into a huge psychological game.

41 year old oldfag here.

Online poker was the crypto of my generation.

I got into poker like 3 minutes before the Chris Moneymaker boom happened in early 2003 (it just happened that way by coincidence), and rode it all the way to 4/15/2011 (Black Friday).

I made many, many thousands online. However, it was getting impossible then, I can't imagine how hard it must be now.

The real gold rush back in those days 15 years ago wasn't actually the poker itself, it was bonus-whoring. All of these poker sites and casinos would give you huge sign-up bonuses just for depositing, and you could clear them with relatively little play. You could get your free $100 or $500 or whatever it was super quickly just by playing breakeven poker (or blackjack in the case of casino bonuses). When you finished one bonus, you went onto the next, and there were HUNDREDS to go after. If you were out of new signup bonuses, you'd work on a reload bonus, and those were constantly happening as well.

It was nuts how much money these companies were giving away. The softness of the poker games only made it sweeter. You basically couldn't fail to make money if you weren't a retard and had some cash to move around.

Don't bother with online poker now, and don't bother with poker at all unless you live in an area with live games (SF Bay Area here, I'm lucky, there's still plenty of soft money live).

Nostalgia'ing hard right now.

Before my country banned poker rooms for my nationality people, I won 100$ in free tourney taking 3rd place of 1500.

>I was fucking rich
>placed 100$ in some shit instead in crypto
>I'm not fucking rich