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Message: [QUOTE="hackmeplz, post: 2004706, member: 89075"] this is super far off. Poker players are in general super lazy, and hate to break it to you but if you're reading the same information/videos as everyone else and you're not still making discoveries of your own you're probably one of the reasons poker can still be pretty profitable. At a casino the fish are everywhere, and I honestly don't think it takes that much study (comparatively anyway, obviously you still have to work very hard) to be making 6 figures from live poker if you can handle the swings and giving up a social life. I personally don't think it would be worth it (it'd involve probably 40-60 hrs/week of 2/5 and playing soft 5/10 games, and is pretty doable just being a decent nit), but if the alternative is working two minimum wage jobs and barely making ends meet while also having no social life, the choice seems pretty clear. Similarly it's a lot tougher to make a living playing online poker now than 5-10 years ago, that much is true. But there are still a lot of players who made a million+ in the past and have let the game pass them by. I have a friend who won 50k from such a player at 2/4nl HU last year until the other guy finally quit. You can't sit back wait for aces and have people pay them off anymore and make a living, but if you are a good player, study hard, and put the time in there are still plenty of 5/10nl tables that run daily online where a lot of people have the kinds of winrates that allow them to make 6 figures/yr from poker if they put in the time at the tables as well as off the tables studying opponents and their own game. So yeah it's not easy, and it probably takes a certain level of intelligence/creativity/critical thinking skills, but to say that it's basically impossible to make a living from poker anymore is pretty false. I wouldn't be shocked if that's true in 10-15 years, the game is definitely getting tougher and even the bad regs are either quitting or getting better. But the game isn't dead by a longshot, I could post a ton of hands from 2/4-5/10 of players making plays so awful you'd think they were trying to donate me money. [/QUOTE]

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