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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1838757, member: 23910"] Most poker players will tell you much the same thing about poker - that a player doing OK today would make a killing if they could go back in time to the boom era (the early-to-mid noughties, between Moneymaker's win and Party's withdrawl from the US market) because nobody knew how to play then and there was tons of dead money :p The answer to pretty much everything though is the same as it always is in poker: it depends. For starters, eight tables isn't really that many - serious multitablers play more like 24 at once. They're not using super-computers to do it either, just hand tracking software and a HUD that gives them stats on the hands they've played with each of their opponents: how often each person voluntarily puts money in the pot, how often they three-bet preflop, etc. Pretty much any software that gives you information beyond that is against the terms of service of just about every reputable site, and they're pretty good at tracking down and kicking off people who use it. Technology squeezing people out isn't the problem in poker. Following on from that, you don't [I]have[/I] to use the legal tracking/HUD software to win, and indeed some of the biggest winners in the game claim not to, but it certainly makes it easier. Likewise you could certainly make money playing just one table at a time (with or without a tracker/HUD), but you wouldn't make as much as if you were playing two or four or more, and how much you could potentially make in that game depends on all sorts of different factors. Nor is poker free from the outside influences and a multitude of other undertainties. Knowing that a full house will always beat a pair is really only equivalent to knowing that selling higher than you bought will net a profit in trading. There are a bunch of uncertainties you have to deal with, ranging from "how do I know my opponent actually [I]has[/I] a pair?" to "what if the fish at the table decide to leave because the mouthy douchebag in the three seat keeps berrating them?" to "what if a government somewhere does something that significantly reduces the size of the player pool I have access to, and therefore my earning potential?" There's no way of knowing whether the kids your company recently hired made their money in poker because they were lucky or because they were good - or indeed, if they really made that much at all. Putting them aside, if you [B]are[/B] good, make the right decisions and stay ahead of the game then it's certainly still possible to make money in poker. Maybe even lots of money. But I stand by my previous statement: mindset and money management are pretty much all that poker and trading have in common, unless you want to count sitting on your arse staring at a screen all day ;) [/QUOTE]

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