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Originally Posted by Habsfan09
So and where do you see the profit on this side?
When I put in KevinM987 on OPR he has a 66% rating for 2018 which basically means there is no such thing as a profit on Stars.
And we are talking about averaging at least 50k/year. So that does count out MattStaples as well since the years before he didnt do it either according to OPR. Taking only 1 year sample sizes isnt a good basis for analysis. Buehlero got a huge score on the special sunday million and followed it up the next week with another big score.
If we going by this then yes everybody can have a 50k year as long as he plays the Sunday Million.
Here are his last 2 years:
Averaged 33k online and with his live scores last year totalling 150k, that's not bad.
Ok and? How exactly do we know how good someone is if they don't rise up the ranks? Him NOT doing it before and then posting his amount is actually more impressive and a point for me than it is proving how "difficult" it is.
The real problem with your sample size point is how big do you want the sample to be? Do you want me to find your crushers and say "look it's possible" or will their high roller play skew their results or something? The streamers are good examples because we know a lot about them as people and thus can deduce how hard something actually is.
Why don't you find people and showcase them if you don't like my sample size?
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Originally Posted by Colin_Piddle
Keep defending Lex bro he is not a good player. Him making 50k a year was him running insanely good. He lost 200k last year. Also think playerscope is way off for Kevin. Even he said he only made a few thousand online. I do not care about your "live" arguments. This thread is about online poker, live is irrelevant (It's way easier)
Also wouldn't most of these streamers be in the top 1-2%. They all put in insane volume and stream which is great for thinking through hands. The average grinder is not putting in as many hours or study as the streamers. You fail to look at grinders like Blaakman08 and instead base all your research on twitch streamers as per usual.
Literally no one is defending Lex and if he's not good and can make 50k a year, what does that tell you? No it wasn't running insanely hot, it was just not playing tournaments where he has no edge like he did last year playing tons of high buyins.
Ofc you don't care about the live part, I wouldn't care about the strongest part of my opponent's argument either if it made me look bad. Because online players are always confined to the internet right? Nobody will stake you any money to play live if you make 50k online consistently right? Or let me guess, it's not in the spirit of the question to discuss how poker players can use their poker skills to make money?
Streamers are literally the best examples because we can quantify many variables, unknown people are not because they are unknown, how much do they study, how much do they tilt, how seriously do they take poker, what's their IQ, do they get any coaching etc etc. UNKNOWABLE, so that makes them bad case studies.
The reality is that either these streamers are honestly very brilliant people who study a ton, grind a ton and do everything right and thus irrelevant or they are not so overly special and going back to his question prove that making 50k online isn't the daunting and impossible task some make it out to be.
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Originally Posted by lenC
Even if this is the case, his live scores totaled 150k+ last year and his average for the past 2 years has been 33k per year.