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Originally Posted by raymears
So how did that pan out for you?
Easy win this time. Guess you have given up even trying after so many losses. Even TPTK is posting better quality than you lately.
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Originally Posted by TPTK27
I'm well aware I don't make much money from this game vs time invested (and not many do), but I do enjoy poker, and 1-2 hours a day for a couple of hundred extra a month isn't bad for a hobby.
I'm fully aware I could just quit poker and do a few days overtime in work and make more, but I do enjoy playing, it's nice to get home sometimes and fire up my regular games listening to some nice music.
Of course working on your game is worthwhile, if you're going to play the game you may as well make some money whilst doing it.
I have no aspirations of being a poker pro- the discipline it would take to play full time hours, makes me cringe just thinking about it. My game starts to srtuggle at the 2 hour mark, usually before, how on earth anybody could endure 30 hours+ a week playing a stressful game like poker i'd never know.
As a little profitable hobby, an hour here and there, online poker is OK if you know which sites to play.
You make a lot more sense once you calm down and drop issues such as which mystical forces owns the banks.
All of these are very valid reasons to play, and many who also play for fun do so without worrying so much about winning/variance etc.
You also are disproving a very common riggie belief that working on one's game does not matter when of course it makes a huge difference.
What you do need to better understand (especially as a guy who investigates things) is that the poker world is also filled with players who do extensive research with their own databases of hands (non riggies use programs like Holdem Manager) into the other players while working on their games, and this is how many of the cheating/collusion/softplay scandals have been definitively proven.
Those guys do great work for the industry and they actually back their claims with proof so when you and others make random claims based on patters you cannot prove you are also dismissing the genuine hard work the real investigative players have done in the past.
As someone who tries to uncover the truth in lots of topics you should have better respect for those who are legitimately doing it in this industry (with actual proven results), wouldn't you agree?