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[manic111]

I tend to pretty much break even. I stuck a tenner in about 6 months ago, and presently have £9.49. I just play low stakes for fun. Would much rather do that than get into playing boring, grindy poker. It's not what I do to make money, so would rather have an interesting game

 

[Showboat]

Full tilt have rush poker.

Imagine having 1000 players playing, the poker room will emulate tables as fast as it can, so immediately you are playing in a table of ten people. If you dont like your hand you click force fold, straight away you are moved to another table with 9 other players and new cards dealt, you will be randomly placed in various positions aroud the table and sometimes be in BB, SB or wherever.

People tend to fold anything thats not a big hand so you can pay in and bluff when a big hand doesnt flop. Very quick, fun games.

 

[TFleming]

Pokerstars for me.

 

[Souness]

lol OP has much to learn

earning a living playing poker is not fun, its just like any other job... it takes time, dedication.

you can learn the game itself in a few hours, but you cant go in with £50 and come out with £1,000 every time even if you consider yourself a good player... if this is what you think then dont bother even starting.

Wise words.

I've been killing 1/2 and 2/4 for a couple years, but this year I'm running $60k below EV and haven't won a dime! Poker is all about the long haul... you have to be willing to take some serious punishment, financially and emotionally, in the short term, where short term can sometimes mean a whole year - even playing thousands of hands per day.

Poker is kinda portrayed as easy money on TV, because a lot of the people you seem on there have got extremely lucky in live tournaments and picked up some big scores, making them instantly rich (just look at the "poker celebrities" who have won the main event, Jerry Yang, Jamie Gold, rofl...) This does not happen to most people. Most people have to grind day by day. Plus poker is much much harder than it used to be (thanks a lot twoplustwo and training sites). You seriously think the likes of Gavin Smith, Sammy Farha, Daniel Negreanu would have got rich otherwise? I doubt your staple TV pro could even beat 100nl online these days (with the exception of daniel I guess, since he's the one old school pro who has been working hard on his game - but you should have seen the waiting lists on pokerstars when he was playing 100/200, lol).

You have to be either extremely good or extremely lucky to make any kind of significant, dependable income from poker now.