You do realise how hard some of those players train right?

The pro Starcraft players are insane.

still catching up on this thread... just had to say that today has been a rough one but this thread has cheered me up greatly

5 ****ing stars all day

not bad for a telemarketer

I'm in Australia where the average wage is 70k a year. But things are way more expensive here. $17 for a pack of smokes, $60 for a case of good beer, $500 a week + rents for shoebox apartments in Melbourne CBD, grocery bill of $120 a week to feed one person, $150 a month for full package pay TV, $70 a month for internet, high gas and electricity bills etc etc. Earning $25 an hour would mean you are just getting by in Melbourne with very little room for any kind of luxuries. The guy in question was a smarmy wanker anyway.

Haha +1

I'm a Uni student working part time for $25 and hour.

If I was working for $20/hr full time I'd be ****ing hating life.

Sounds like a ****.

Haha def

If you're single, to live a "good" life in an inner city suburb of Melbourne, you would need to be earning $80k minimum. If you're in a relationship and got a mortgage, then you need to be earning well into 6 figures. The average house price of a place like Fitzroy is over 900k now.

lol I was making almost that much stacking shelves at Woolies 5 years ago! (in Perth tho). Now I'm an engineer and part time degen.

Friend: I heard you play poker
Me: Yeah i make a decent bit online
Friend: You play online too? I'm so good we should play
Me: Yeah, what site?
Friend: Zynga..
Me: .____________________.

Yeah no doubt mate, play at crown much?

Mom never lies.

lately had my worst downswing ever, like 4k

after that i won most back in a few tourneys and a friend of mine could not believe i did not quit right there (i'm still down since the beginning of the downswing)

DMoogle - 2006

The prophet had foretold this!!!!!!

lol dont know where you are getting these stats from, but the average wage is exactly the same as the US. Go check the government statistics.

But prices are 10x as steep.

Abs ( which is a government website ), claims the average full time wage in Australia is $1304.20 per week in 2011. Now x that by 52 and you have over 67.5k. That was in 2011. It's now approaching 2013 and it has went up to about 70k. Stats are below, table 8.43. Enjoy.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@....s~Earnings~299

If only we all had of listened

http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/e...gion&ind=false is AU vs US income based on purchasing power equity - i.e, what it lets you buy.

Last line was epic!

when in doubt, pull out the sharkscope graph usually shuts everyone up

Same.

I moved to the UK last year to start playing full time. On day 2 of being a full-time player, the tech guy of the building wakes me up for a routine control. The conversation litterally went:

"What you do for a living mate?"
"Ar, I play poker"
"Really?"
"Yeah"
"Well the other time I was playing at the Vic, there was this guy. I had noticed whenever he had a good hand, he bet with his left hand. But when he had a bad hand, he would take the chips in right hand and shove them in, you see? So I had two tens, I called, and the flop was like a queen, a nine and a seven ... no that was the 4 of hearts, or maybe a deuce. He said "ten" and I said call. Then another deuce, he said "25" and I said call. Then he bet 60, with his right hand again. I said call and he said <<you're good>>."

That was followed by an akward 5 seconds silence. I now realise I was expected to answer something to the effect of "Yeah, right/left hand betting patterns recognition is one of the major skills of a good poker player".

I wish I had read this thread before, I would have had a good laugh instead of thinking "what the hell is going here?". I guess I lost my poker-virginity on day 2. Me iz poka playa now, yeah!

The end of the conversation was something like: Do you play comps? What? Comps. What? Comps! Errr, what? COMPS! Errr no, I play tournaments.

Oh yeah, 5*.

Your Mom rocks. Mine's unhappy whenever I tell her poker's been going fine for me lately and happy whenever I'm on a downswing. She hopes heavy enough losses will make me go for a "real job". You wanna trade?

LOL

I don't tell my gf I play poker because she always freakes out when she knows I'm playing, if she knows then I don't get "any" for the next 48 hrs, I even bought home 8k in cash that I won on a live game, and she still freaked, the best poker is after 7pm until morning, it's her quality time with me. I always have to keep lying to her that I'm going to hang out with friends, so the question is, should I choose poker ? Or the gf? Anyone else have this problem?

First of all post this is the relationship thread in OOT or wherever it is.

I think you need to figure out what you want out of this... if you're just having fun, sure keep lying.

But if she doesn't accept it you either need to have a long talk with her or find a girl who accepts you for who you are. Not going to work in the long run