Quote:
Originally Posted by Bene Gesserit
Everything finds its level sooner or later. Poker is no exception. Many, many more folks are still playing regularly live and online than they were before the "Boom" inflated the numbers temporarily ! The gravy train is finished , but there is still a lot of money out there to be had. It's just not as easy for you to get.
This. The games are tougher. But you can still make money if your are decent and can adapt.
Go to your local casino thursday friday and saturday there are people that will play poker and maybe 3/20 are anyway good.
For the average person just depositing online, it has become very hard to run up money.
But again if you are half decent and want to learn you can make a few quid.
Of course online, the novelty and fun is kinda gone. Unless the get the americans back and all of the rest of the world can play together then the games will keep drying.
If you play a 3.50 27 man on stars tonight, you may be favourite but its still not in anyway as easy as in 2008 even.
You'll find 5/6 guys playing 10 tables and playing the same strategy and their push/fold. You'll have 5-6 really bad fish. You'll have 5-10 bad regs and a few very good regs. They're all exploitable but if you just why would the normal put in so much study or effort to beat a guy that hasnt even noticed you for the sake of saving you 3 dollar stake. He was a game, he wants to have fun and if he loses by having fun on the bubble then hes had a laugh.
There beatable but for a normall guy throwing on 20 dollars to have a game, the fun is gone. He is having fun and trying to outplay a bot who is playing 9/9/3. He loses after a few games if he doesnt get a bit of luck and he doesnt bother playing again because it wasnt fun. The grinders make a few quid over the long run.
Now im not saying these games are tough but they're not as attractive anymore and they've become more of an effort rather than a quick gamble.
The days of putting on 30 dollars and making 500 over a weekend are over. That was the fun in poker. Its not there anymore.