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Originally Posted by candybar
How's online poker these days? Is it still becoming more and more difficult or has that plateaued/reversed? How good do you have to be relative to others to make, say, $125K working 40 hours a week?
Online poker I believe is terrible. I play live. Some days I am wildly optimistic. Other days I feel like it's a sick day. Hold'em is not that hard to beat live as soon as you start to reduce what you're doing down to a formula. After that it takes less thinking at the table, and more thinking away from the table on what that formula should look like. I am sure many poker pros fight the nihilistic blues.
A company has a mission statement with employees who are on board. This would be okay with me if I didn't have so many sick days in my life. I feel like I could manage if I completed school, worked reduced hours, and I felt like I was doing something unique. There's a lot of pressure from society to do something perceived as more productive.
If I didn't have the nihilistic blues, or disbelief in my abilities, then I would've tried harder in school, and perhaps gotten that dream job. But, I have a disbelief in hierarchies that are perhaps to my own detriment. When you believe in grades you want to get good ones. In poker though, grades don't matter, and in fact they are scrambled when you think about it. You get a good grade after making a terrible play, and visa versa. So, you are left to grade yourself.
To be diligent at poker, you should record at least two hands a session, and analyze them as though they were math problems with the latest technology you can find.