RasterGFX said:
This I believe is how anyone playing poker either for "fun" or "profit" should advance themselves. Unless you suddenly become a "poker god" and start winning things like a $400 buy-in Colossus Ring (watched it btw... nice job 🙂 ) or even just a low-tier WSOP casher that can scrape a good 40-60k a year (that's above even the average 2-working Adults in USA).
It's a hard Life. Yet. Very enjoyable as long as you don't go crazy and bankrupt yourself. Getting back up is one of the hardest things to do. Bankroll management.
The funny part of it is that I've played poker for living since 2008 till 2015, made $800 in my first month and started with $50 free bankroll offered to me by some other
poker forum... my best month was +8.5K, worst month was +400, average +2.5-3K. And I'm not in the USA, average salary around is $300 per month after taxes and prices are much cheaper than USA, things like broadband internet 300Mb/s cost $5 per month here and rest of the prices are much much more cheaper than in the US.
Life isn't hard, it's simple and complicated at the same time... life is a game, it has start and has an end.. 100 year life is 24*365*100 = 876K hours, that's our stack of chips in this game and we're paying ante every second. This is the reason why I've quit playing 12 tables per day during 8-12 hours and took a break from poker. Since 2016 I'm playing mostly
freerolls in the evenings cause I usually draw 3d models or use CAM software to prepare programs for my CNC machines and since i'm addicted to multitasking i also listen to audio lessons, play poker, chat with customers and keep drawing/programming all together. And even since i'm not keeping any bankroll still i'm pulling out of 5-6
poker sites approx 1.5K+ per year, it was little less than 3K in 2017. Not bad for a evening hobby? And i keep investing these poker winnings into parts for new cnc machines and in new tools. CNC machine which is a simple robot gives a stable profit, and all I have to do is to find customers, workers and feed the machines with materials for cutting/engraving, programs for work process, electricity and lube to keep it alive. The best part of it is that machine works for 10-20hours on its own, and I don't have to anything during this time, so basically it generates profit while it works. If you're playing poker for living then you're slowly wasting your lifetime observing the masturbation process of the same 52 cards again and again. 876K hours is 100 year life, 30% is sleep time, some time has passed already, some % will be spent for teeth brushing, shower, food and so on... How much effective time is left? And what % of this time will be spent for poker? What will it give except for money and serotonin? At some point online poker player may realize that online
gambling is something like sitting in a jail. Yes earning money from poker is good, but poker player creates nothing useful for the society and for himself. That's the problem. nothing useful.... in all cases any poker player could earn much more money by doing some useful business, Negreanu or Hellmuth could earn same money if they have studied and worked as neuro surgeons for example. They could save lives instead of working as a clown promouters of poker industry... That's the sad truth of reality.
