This is so ridiculously absurd. What part of living a fulfilling life has anything to do with getting "respect from a real person???" WTF is wrong with you?

Comments like this or the underlined mind set it takes to think like this is so ****ing sad. If you attempt to define yourself by the manner in which you earn money you've completely missed the boat this time around.

Who gives a **** how some one else chooses to take care of their family or pay their bills or whatever?? Seriously? Is that what matters to you in your life? That's important to you day in and day out??

Let me tell you something, other than your mother, nobody cares what you do to make money, nobody. A person's job has zero barring on what kind of person they are, if they should garner respect, if they're a "good person," absolutely positively none.

Any one that would base their opinions about a persons true "self worth"solely on their occupation is someone that is completely brainwashed and not very astute when it comes to the whole life thing.

What are you trying to justify? Are you defined by your job?? Personally, I have a name, an independent mind, a "conscious," a "soul" opinions, feelings, and thoughts that engage others and make them want to be around me?

What I have to offer as a human being has nothing to do with how I earn worthless paper and "assets" to exist in the system we live in. And its the same for everyone, its a shame that you don't understand this at your age.

"Investors are something different" Long only, buy and hold, how noble. Your posts are so out of line, a true sheeple of the people. Keep watching TV you're doing exactly as they'd like.

Youre utterly wrong of course patchohore, you even seem to know it too judging by the strength of your spluttering.

"no one cares what u do except your mother" lol

We would probably be slaughtered more. You can't get slaughtered if you don't play, and playing isn't much fun when the rest of your table 12-tables.

another person who got lucky enough to play poker in its hey day now complaining he can't beat the games

fuak outta here

Just this year four human online heads up specialists played the worlds best computer BOT in an 80,000 hand challenge they won by nearly 10bb/100 and the humans used no software while playing whatsoever, not even a HUD.

1. Humans and robots will work together A top player using advanced software has an edge over a top player who doesn't. Is that fair? That's a debate.

2. A bigger concern is that bots will beat recreational players (which they already can.) If the poker economy is gutted by bots, there will be nothing left.

i just searched "bombonca" on an mtt tracking site for lols. it's pretty obvious why he hates poker so much.

From September HS

You are just as delusional. If you do not think eyebrows would be raised by most people when they find out you "play poker" for a living you must be hanging out with only poker players lol. So you are saying that if you sell meth for a living or troll around as a personal injury lawyer praying off of other people nobody will care except for their mommies? Just as long as you are making money everyone will think you are an upstanding guy?

its likely a troll post brah

It's probably not, that's exactly how many poker pros think.

It's true. Nobody cares, they just judge because it's an abnormal job which gets a bad rep. I've told many people I gamble for a living, I've gotten some weird looks but I can guarantee that nobody gives a ****. I can guarantee that they will judge me, though.

Da fuq is this pile of crazy.

If they raise their eyebrows, just 4-bet jam your electric razor.

he was so arrogant about how weak plo5000 players were a couple years ago, now they are good and the game is not "fair" anymore, gtfo PA.

play nl2 now, played 25 nl 5 years ago.......lolz

+100
Playing online poker for a living (just lil' hundo) aged 19, in 2015, is really frustrating. Considering I'd like to think I'm one of the better players at 100nl it makes me pretty salty to think I'd surely crush if I were born 10 years prior.
On the other hand it makes me quite proud that I'm able to play poker professionally but at the same time, am I really going to be able to play for a living 10 years from now? Unlikely. I have very little qualifications and no previous work experience to fall back on either.

LOL I'm in the same boat. Used to play 25-100 pre bf now I'm a 2nl donk. **** changes, not playing for 4 years will make you a donk at any stakes tho.

and if it was ten years ago you would play just as poorly because nobody paved a path for you and spelled it out for you

Those are just randoms, they dont give a sht because they dont care about you man

your a pro poker player right? so you are excellent and reading peoples reactions right? Have you noticed yet what females think when you tell them

"I don't have a job, I'm a professional gambler"


??

10 years? dude try 2 years from now? Cant you see whats happening.....Forgot the boom you were probably lucky to miss it, then the gap in your CV would have been really crushing and your mindset even more poked.

you are 19? wow. You are going to be fine, just get out asap

I don't think HEM is a problem. It just allows you to play on more tables. If I didnt have hem I would just play less table to notice tendencies more and I would take more notes.

Where are these paved paths on which bad players can have the game's inner workings spelled out for them on a casual stroll?

Well ten years ago there wasn't coaching, training sites, training software etc...

You had to learn mostly by playing, talking strat with people and analyzing other people's games. There was less info out there.