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Originally Posted by AKingdom
Well said, and I totally agree with you. As opposed to recs learning about on-line poker via a banner ad where they need to figure things out themselves, they now can find out about it on Twitch, except that on Twitch they're being told about all the tools they need to become good even down to the thought process. And it's all free. Not good.
I think that this post says a lot imo what is really? the adverse? problem? that regs?/pro? have with?/against? twitch.
Twitch produces?/brings? young and fit?/smart? players to the sites that can grind hard and long with a certain strategy?/game? that is hard to beat and difficult/hard to make money/profit against and make the regs?/pros? work harder for their money/income/extra income.
Or am i wrong?
I myself think that playing poker on-line for someone that just wants to play some games for fun is boring and dull and absolutely no fun at all. Because the regs/pro[people that solely play poker for there income] play a system/strategy a cold, boring mathematical game. That's makes them money, and the "game" the spirit of poker so to say is gone imo. And as a recreational player there is only loosing, and all the moves, bluffs, and moves that makes the game FUN!!, are all mathematically eliminated, even as low as the 2/5 cents levels.
No for me there is only live cash game poker, and i am playing live poker since i was 16 years old, when "the old man"as we called him learned me the game of 5 card draw, that was the most popular game here in Holland in the early 80s.
And i was sold for life, the excitement/tension of sitting on a table with men from all levels of society, looking in their eyes, looking at there posture, looking for anything that could give me a edge/advantage so i could win/take their money.
With either a bluff[the most rewarding feeling of all] or a stone cold winner, or just knowing that they where bluffing.
Either way all these thing and many more, that makes playing live cash games so much more fun for me.
So much more exciting then on- line poker.
And hey on-line poker is for many, many people a great thing, in relation too that many people have a better life, make more money then the ever could with a job, or make very welcome/needed extra income with on-line poker.
And i think that is great and i am happy that they can.
But for me it is boring, and hey i play some tourneys/cash game or sng now and then[but i have to play at least 3 at a time to keep me interested/focused], and have some fun, but after a hour[in cash and sng for sure] i start too loose interest, and i can't help it, no matter what stakes i play, and i payed for that knowledge i can assure you. lol
But i think on-line poker is beatable?/profitable? if you take the time, and do the work to study hard and watch videos on sites like twitch.
And maybe 90%? is learning the same systems/strategy's?.
So it is going to be a matter of who grinds the hardest, who puts in the most hours, who plays the most hands, because the knowledge is out there right?
And i meant no offense to anyone, it just how i think/wondered about it when i saw this topic, and i can be wrong about this, since i have little knowledge/experience about on-line poker, but i was just curious if i am[partly] right about it in other peoples experience/opinions, that's all.