I think he thinks it's relevant because it was fun

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).

ROFL

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.

I remember when this forum was still fun before we had kitchen sink psychologists that know everything.


You guys tried Courchevel yet?
Here a few examples how much fun it is:

2014/03/19 6:16:19 CET [2014/03/19 1:16:19 ET]

Hero (BB): 1,920 (24 bb)
MP: 720 (9 bb)
CO: 1,040 (13 bb)
BTN: 3,120 (39 bb)
SB: 2,120 (26.5 bb)

Preflop: 3
Hero is BB with 7 6 K 6 2
MP raises to 160, 2 folds, SB calls 120, Hero calls 80

Flop: (480) 3 5 K (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, MP bets 240, SB folds, Hero calls 240

Turn: (960) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets 240, Hero calls 240

River: (1,440) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets 1,280 and is all-in, MP calls 80 and is all-in




2014/03/19 6:20:25 CET [2014/03/19 1:20:25 ET]

BB: 1,250 (12.5 bb)
Hero (MP): 2,720 (27.2 bb)
CO: 720 (7.2 bb)
BTN: 3,870 (38.7 bb)
SB: 2,400 (24 bb)

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)




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.

best post ITT

Once players start lying to themselves there is no chance of success.

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.

Yes, poker was fun back in the Chris Moneymaker Era of Poker.

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

Not when you are playing $1.10 buy in

Poker was fun long before that. Poker is still fun today.

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.

care to put your money where your mouth is?

Just speaking for myself...

But many as well... Many have come from that same boom!

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?

I dont wanna be rude but you sound like a cry baby.

There are thousands of people who wants what you got. The skills and talent to make money in poker.

If you dont enjoy it then stop playing for cash and get back to freerolls.

I dont know what to say .

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.

Competition is fun for people like me and a huge part of why I do this.

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.

Sounds like you're still venting bro...

I just heard a couple win 50 million jackpot in da news. (I'm mad jelly too.)

Life is unfair!