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Originally Posted by SpinMeRightRound
Absolute rubbish. Making $10/hour in a real life job is far, far easier than making $10/hour at online poker. You're telling me that flipping burgers in McDonald's is harder than grinding out $10/hour in games full of mass-multitabling nits? Hahaha, oh boy, you really have no idea.
And in poker, not only do you have to stay at least equal level to the competition in order to make the same amount of money, your income is also consistently being eroded by inflation. So that's 2 forces working against you already.
So if it's so easy to make $25/hour, why aren't more people doing it?
lol yeah i have no idea..
your specific example really depends on who you ask, there are plenty of games that are incredibly easy to make 10/h and that's from your own home whilst you can watch YouTube listen to music or do whatever.
plus you are talking about first world, plenty of countries people are happy to do hard labour for $5h or less. not to mention in plenty of countries people aren't so lucky to be able to get even min wage jobs if they want.
also I was more talking about higher stakes. even in most first world countries, and way more so in non-fw, making say 50/h or 100k (40h weeks) takes years of education, solid grades and even then it isn't a given. it's getting harder due to competition (way more so than training sites, lol) but honestly it's much "easier" to do it with poker. not to mention many countries you aren't taxed.
guys with masters or phds in math/science/computer science etc in many countries try yes to but can't find a job for 100k/yr with tonnes of education, some study fees etc, these guys can put a fraction of that work in and make plenty in poker and often more if they work really hard
poker players have it pretty good, it's only tough compared to what it used to be. the guys of 5 years ago look back on the party days where ppl just print sitting any 10/20-25/50 table, the ppl of today look back at 5 years ago. honestly I (or a lot of players) could teach someone to make solid hourly within a few months with enough time given, some of which would have no chance of making that in their everyday life based on education/country situation. if you work hard there's no chance the work you put in is even close to university hours
stop with the entitlement and stop blaming training sites.
the point was mostly in "real life" to make a solid income, unless you're lucky/born rich/business minded you're generally going to need to study for years to get a degree, which involves fees and obviously time, then you get a job with taxes. the prospect of how much money you "could" make in poker vs. time spent relatively speaking, especially if you factor in benefits like flexible hours and so on, is very appealing to a wide range of people. granted, not even close to all of them wil make it, but a lot will and as more people hear about it and get into it, games get tougher and more competitive
Last edited by OMGClayDol; 03-10-2016 at 11:02 AM.