its easy for the people who say its easy.

thats the whole point, for a majority of the genereal population poker for a living is not a thing they can do. For the people who naturally have the qualities needed its not hard (which is alot of people who post on 2p2), as aesah says takes 10 hours to be +ev at a low stakes table.

take a look at daniel negranue and tell me that a guy with that type of personally finds being a poker pro hard

In b4 Aesah becomes a full time streamer

I love the rebuttal and you make really legitimate points. Poker is part of a degenerate gambling culture and when you are young and impressionable, its very easy to get sucked into it. God knows I have had my fair share of struggle, win or lose at poker, and then go up and play pai gow or blackjack because I've built up stress and felt I needed some release.

I am not writing off how being a live pro is oh so easy. It is difficult, and yes, being stationary for 12 hours, one might find their body aching when they finally get up and then dread the thought that they need to do it again the next day.

But I think some of the most INSANE feats testing human potential is also done in poker. People playing 40something-50something hours in a single session is hardly that surprising to me. As you know, the world record of a single session is 115hours. People do inspiring things, lockdown poker for 72hours or 96hours, or putting in 500K hands per month: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...hread-1383989/

I just think the level that people can reach in poker is mind boggling and it kind of puts putting in a measly 35-40hours a week into perspective.
I have an interest in computer programming but I am a total newbie. People hold hackathons where programmers get together and code for 24hours straight, I think that's amazing but perhaps not that difficult if you are on the inside of that field. I've been playing poker for awhile now, there is still no way I am ever putting in 500K hands inside of a single month. I can not play poker for anymore than 48 hours because I think I will literally DIE.

The desire to accomplish something, I think the headspace you are in matters a LOT. If you are in the wrong headspace, anything can seem like an insurmountable barrier. 40hours of poker a week? Very hard. Trying to play your A game? Hard. Making money on a Saturday night at 1/2? Hard. Getting out of bed? Hard.

I mean c'mon, going from near 500lbs and cutting off 300lbs of fat in a year is hard. Having no actual arms, being a female mom, and becoming a body builder and winning bodybuilding tournaments is hard. Having no metabolism, anything you eat just doesn't stick to your body because you have a genetic disease, yet you've become a motivational speaker and wrote several books is hard. Being a professional poker player? That's a piece of cake compared to those. Easier by a metric mile.

None of those are required of any typical job description though. I mean "easy" and "hard" are relative, I could say doing all those things is are piece of cake compared to swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, solving the Riemann hypothesis, or killing a healthy adult grizzly bear by beating it to death using only your erection

Never have played table games.... In 5 years.... Easy.

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Depends on the bear IMO

FYP

ive never played table games in my life beat that

Condo just about done?
Joining us shortly for some PLO in sunny San Diego?
Maybe we can get a OE or HO game going regularly at 20/40+.

Some real gold in here

The real question is why would you have a boner in that moment?

The answer:

Playing poker for a living is damn hard work. Almost everyone thinks they have an edge and blame losses to variance. I do think the lifestyle is good and hence so many 20 somethings want to play it for a living.

Yea, its a bit relative though but I can totally see someone who has been in the marines or an athlete training for the olympics or a marathon runner, who also happen to have the nerdy skillset of kids from Washington U needed to beat poker, just being able to totally crush it and totally dust off their shoulders.

To most grinders who have sort of gotten lazy via the poker culture, I just think their willpower in anything is as breakable as a twig.

great thread!

Probably been said, but how many losing months have you had since you started playing pro?

A lot

He's Asian, his erection isn't that big. Also Love the league. #murderboner

caught a free one month subscription to crush live poker, thanks aesah. watched the intro PLO video, thought it was great. I'm pretty new to PLO but have been a poker pro for 9 to 10 years so I like to think my poker reasonings are fairly solid, although most of my experience is mtt and sng.

anyway, I found myself in large agreement with you when it came to hand selection and agreed with most of your post flop commentary as well. I know I learned some things though, great introductory PLO video, looking forward to more, you did a great job.

pirates don't wear eyepatches because they are missing an eye, but so they can just shift the patch over when they go below deck without waiting for their eyes to adjust

(someone told me it's been too long since I wrote something interesting in my thread)

A lot of them were legit missing eyes though.

More interesting facts please!

I always wondered why so many Pirates lost eyes. My entire outlook om life has now changed

Wait... do your pupils adjust independently?

Well if the one under the patch remains dilated i imagine it sees in the dark better right away than the other one?

This is where z needs to step in

Um, OK......


Lol wat?

I....guess I can pontificate if need be. Binocular vision ftw!!!

Wait, bip don't wear glasses do he?

Guess Z needs it spelled out better... Pretty sure your pupils dilate/constrict together - covering one with a patch while topside would accomplish zip/zero/nada