I quit for a long while because it ceased being fun, interesting, or profitable, the last being mostly my lack of skill.
The wife and I went to lunch yesterday at the local Indian Casino and they had one table of 3/6 limit going. Played for a couple of hours with the most sour, unpleasant, opinionated people ever. I am 56 and was the youngest one at the table.
Bought in for $140 cashed out $85. I would have been better off to take $65 in ones and set it on fire to dance around it by the moonlight.
No wonder poker is dying.
But I still have hope. Will be riding the bike to Vegas for the opening of the WSOP cash games and DSE!! Table selection uberalle.
LOL. So your logic is: bad player can't win anymore = poker is dying? LOLcopterz. Poker has become a serious sport. If you suck at it, don't expect to win, have a few drinks, have fun, blow a few hundos and go home happy. O and don't play limit with 90 year olds. They're not much fun (not that limit is fun).
I quit for a long while because it ceased being fun, interesting, or profitable, the last being mostly my lack of skill.
The wife and I went to lunch yesterday at the local Indian Casino and they had one table of 3/6 limit going. Played for a couple of hours with the most sour, unpleasant, opinionated people ever. I am 56 and was the youngest one at the table.
Bought in for $140 cashed out $85. I would have been better off to take $65 in ones and set it on fire to dance around it by the moonlight.
No wonder poker is dying.
But I still have hope. Will be riding the bike to Vegas for the opening of the WSOP cash games and DSE!! Table selection uberalle.
Nice anecdote, but otherwise completely incorrect regarding poker. I would venture that about 15-20% of the fish I play are new to the game. Mines anecdotal too, but at least its several hundred players.
River: (1,440) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets 1,280 and is all-in, MP calls 80 and is all-in
Spoiler:
Results: 1,600 pot
Final Board: 3 5 K 5 4
Hero showed 7 6 K 6 2 (a straight flush, Deuce to Six) and won 1,600 (880 net)
MP showed Q 2 T 6 A (a flush, King high) and lost (-720 net)
Preflop: A
Hero is MP with 7 8 K Q A
Hero raises to 350, CO calls 350, 2 folds, BB raises to 1,250 and is all-in, Hero raises to 2,720 and is all-in, CO calls 370 and is all-in
Flop: (3,270) A K J (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Turn: (3,270) T (3 players, 3 are all-in)
River: (3,270) 7 (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: 3,270 pot
Final Board: A K J T 7
BB showed 3 A 4 4 K (two pair, Aces and Kings) and lost (-1,250 net)
Hero showed 7 8 K Q A (a Royal Flush)
and won 3,270 (2,020 net)
CO showed 5 2 A 3 6 (a pair of Aces) and lost (-720 net)
What other game you get straight and royal flush on a single table within 4 minutes?
This video also shows how much fun it is, worth watching:
No. If you have an obsessive and complusive nature, poker will eventuallly become a nightmare. It's just too stimulating, too much room for delusion/deception. To the precise extent that we subject ourselves to it's grasp do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile.
No. If you have an obsessive and complusive nature, poker will eventuallly become a nightmare. It's just too stimulating, too much room for delusion/deception. To the precise extent that we subject ourselves to it's grasp do we squander the hours that might have been worthwhile.
best post ITT
Once players start lying to themselves there is no chance of success.
if someone gave me $10 on any site that has decent action and games that start as low as $1.10 buyins, I'd turn that into over 700 in about 40 hours tops. No joke.
LMFAO!!!!!! I didn't read this whole thread but how did no one call this joker out on this?
LMFAO!!!!!! I didn't read this whole thread but how did no one call this joker out on this?
I personally don't play online so I can't really judge the likelihood of this claim. But turning $10 into $700 in 40 hours of play max... does sound a bit off.
making $17 an hour off of $10 is not impossible at low stakes but you definitely cant do it every time with $10 but a good player could do it a decent % of the time
making $17 an hour off of $10 is not impossible at low stakes but you definitely cant do it every time with $10 but a good player could do it a decent % of the time
To me it's simple. You either love the game or you don't. And it's not about winning or losing. I know people who are losers, yet they play every day because they love it. Some people love bird watching and others stamp collecting. And others love poker. Why? Who knows. Different things trigger "fun" in people's brains.
And if you don't love it or don't love it "anymore" or whatever then please stop whining and QUIT.
you regularly talk about how playing under rolled and not using proper BRM is the quickest way to busto land, yet here you are saying you could easily turn $10 playing $1.50 games (6 buy ins) into $700 within 4o hours tops, can you explain?
Maybe it's just me but i've never once thought about poker as "fun". NLHE is about as perfectly a cutthroat form of competition that can be devised and i'm as serious at all times as possible when dealing with anything to do with poker.
M.O.N.E.Y is the sole reason for doing all this. "Fun" never enters the picture.
Maybe it's just me but i've never once thought about poker as "fun". NLHE is about as perfectly a cutthroat form of competition that can be devised and i'm as serious at all times as possible when dealing with anything to do with poker.
Competition is fun for people like me and a huge part of why I do this.
Quote:
M.O.N.E.Y is the sole reason for doing all this. "Fun" never enters the picture.
For you.
For me my reasons for playing are:
1. Love
2. Ambition
3. Competition
4. Fun
Do you see money on the list?
There are easier ways to make money bro. If you're in it for money you're in the wrong biz. Any small biz owner whale probably has more money than you will ever have.
There are easier ways to make money bro. If you're in it for money you're in the wrong biz. Any small biz owner whale probably has more money than you will ever have.
Sounds like you're still venting bro...
I just heard a couple win 50 million jackpot in da news. (I'm mad jelly too.)