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[QUOTE="KyleJRM, post: 747600, member: 25910"]
Yes, poker is a sucker bet. It is about betting that the suckers will come eventually.

As you rightfully point out, amongst players of equal skill, the rake will ensure that all lose money.

Good players make money when there are enough bad players throwing away their money to make up for the rake, either in a tournament or a ring-game setting.

A lot of strategy and focus goes on how to extract an extra percent or two from playing against good players, but I find most of my profits come from sitting around waiting for someone to donk away a lot of money.

I played a lot of razz and stud hi-lo yesterday and was basically breaking even despite these being my best games.  I don't like hold'em, but I needed a break.

At my six-man table, there was one guy who tried to buy every pot on the river, regardless of what he had. If it got to the river, he was overbetting.  A second player loved to call big pre-flop bets with raggedy cards, hoping for someone to get overattached to an unimproved AK or something.

Three river calls on player A and a pre-flop all-in with AA against player B (he called with K9). Those four hands accounted for my entire profit for the night.
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