I say this cause my friend who i play with all the time (that i think im better than) has won over 75k over the past week. dude finished 10th of 3000 in a wsop event last week and made 60k. and he is currently one of 6 remaining at a small tourney at another casino, already guaranteed 5k with possible 1st place finish taking 60k.
seems so easy, i sit at my comp and phone slaving away all day and this guy is going to make more than i make in a year with 2 days work.
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I have a couple of mates who play "professionally". One just goes to the casino and takes money off the drunks, he walks in with 200 and generally walks out with 2k.
My other mate is a bit more serious has taken home over 250k in a night before.
Key seems to be that you play sober and patient. The other thing is you have to get yourself a big enough bank to fund it, buy ins and cold streaks will kill you if you dont.
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bottom line: if it's that easy, everyone would be doing it.
there's no such thing as a free lunch. atleast for guys, and not so attractive girls. the best thing i suggest for you is the get out of the mentality of trying to score easy money.
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Tournaments are easier than cash games. Making money consistently at cash games can be pretty tough but in tournaments the blinds keep increasing which makes the game simpler.
Playing a lot of poker can get pretty boring after awhile though. it isn't like you have any job security either.
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That poker money is coming from somewhere.
Now sure, there are a bunch of wealthy kids who just lose $10000 in an hour of poker and don't give a shyt. You could also try to feed of amateurs trying it for one night while being intoxicated like Wogitalia's mate is doing.
But the money in poker mostly comes from a lot of these guys who want to become professionals, but lose a significant amount of their day job money every month. It's really not very easy at all to make decent profits on a consistent basis.
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well this one mate of mine, he told me that his mate was playin poker with a bunch of his other mates, and said that he lost to his mates a lot more often than he won. so even tho you occassionally beat the mates and win a big pot of your mates' money, that doesnt include all that time you paid to buy in but lost your money to your mates who made money.
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I've played with people on tours and won a couple of home games against them. The logistics is easy, the patience is the key factor. I think I could do it, do I want to invest my time? Meh...
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Originally Posted by tontoz
Tournaments are easier than cash games. Making money consistently at cash games can be pretty tough but in tournaments the blinds keep increasing which makes the game simpler.
I disagree completely. In a tournament one bad beat, one bad call, and you can be done. In a tournament you could play every hand perfectly and still never sniff the $. In a tournament, you have to make plays you aren't comfortable with because of blinds raising with relation to your chip stack. In a tournament, you have to be the best and luckiest out of 199 other people, say. In a cash game, you don't need to worry about all that. You can play what you want when you want.
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Originally Posted by JJ81
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Originally Posted by kap
bottom line: if it's that easy, everyone would be doing it.
there's no such thing as a free lunch. atleast for guys, and not so attractive girls. the best thing i suggest for you is the get out of the mentality of trying to score easy money.
i always buy free lunch for my clients haha
the only reason its popping in to my head is cause we have played together in weekly home games as well as at commerce casino on the same table, and i feel i have outplayed him pretty much every time
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Originally Posted by bisk
What event did he play?
It was no limit holdem at WSOP. $2k buy in. and he was at the venetian deep stack tourney last night no limit shootout, $250 buy in
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Originally Posted by johndeeregreen
I disagree completely. In a tournament one bad beat, one bad call, and you can be done. In a tournament you could play every hand perfectly and still never sniff the $. In a tournament, you have to make plays you aren't comfortable with because of blinds raising with relation to your chip stack. In a tournament, you have to be the best and luckiest out of 199 other people, say. In a cash game, you don't need to worry about all that. You can play what you want when you want.
thats the thing. most of the time i play really well in tournaments but then someone sucks out on me and it just ruins everything. like if i flop a straight, someone will re raise all in on me with AK off suit and they'll catch runner runner for a flush.
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Never been much of a gambler myself. Considering my severely highly addictive personality, this is surprising to a lot of people. I guess I just try to apply logic to too many things too often... and when you weigh the thrill of gambling VS the likelihood you're going to lose (the heart and soul of gambling; it's not a charity) it just doesn't seem worth it or appealing to me.
I will occasionally check out High Stakes Poker on GSN LOL ... entertaining stuff.
I should of became a professional poker player
