What would you do if there was no poker at all?

I would live on. Life is beautiful.It would probably be better without poker.

If poker didn't exist, I would dedicate myself to other sports such as chess or paddle tennis. I love doing sports and would use that time to do more physical activities.

always is going to be ,,something else ,, ...if is not poker is pool or could be any table game

poker is a good way to make money if you know how to play well unfortunately I haven’t made poker my job yet

If poker were gone, it would be a huge shock for me, because I think this is the most relevant type of earnings at this time, I would leave to play computer games, and I would be looking for some kind of universal type of earnings at the same time.

luckyfish98 said:

Is poker really the best way to get money?

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Depends on what "best" means. If you mean "easy", well, no.

"The best way to make money is to work!"

You will be working quite a lot if you're serious about Poker. It's not something you pick up in a few hours. Like card counting at blackjack, it's not a get rich quick scheme. (I know because I started out as a Counter back in the early '80s) There will be a lot of intense study, work, and effort put in before you ever see your first pay day. That means doing your best to master as well as you can the game of your choice, memorizing the most common odds for drawing hands, being aware of stack and pot sizes to correctly identify +EV situations.

Once that's done, there will be a lot of work to overcome tilt. It does no good to win a bunch of sessions only to blow everything off just because you've hit a patch of rough road. Play long enough and you will see big hands cracked by some fish that made some ridiculous play. Fish are clueless that way; that's also what makes them so profitable. You will sit there, hour after hour, and see nothing but trash hands. Sometimes, it's unbelievable. There are only 1,326 starting hands in Hold 'Em, and it's incredible you see so many bad ones. You have to have the ability to keep throwing them away until you get one you like. Doesn't matter that that (Q,T-o) is the best hand you've been dealt UTG, Throw. It. Away. That's another fishy play: playing the trashiest hands because you haven't seen a decent hand all session, or because of the Gambler's Fallacy: the idea that since something hasn't happened in awhile that it's "due". It isn't, and there's no fighting the math and coming out on top.

Then there's the work at the table: you need to pay attention to your opponents. If playing live, that means no ogling the cocktail girls, keep your eyes on the action, and ignore the Big Game on the overhead screens, leave your smart phone home. If playing on-line, no opening a new tab to watch CensorTube videos or chat on social media. You need to know who's playing and how do they play? I lost count long ago of all the times I've seen the nittiest player sitting behind huge stacks. The other idiots who don't pay attention just hand him stack after stack when it should have been obvious that Mr Nit has pocket aces when he 3-bets all-in because he's never done that with less.

Then the work never stops. You can't let your game go stagnant. New opponents are learning new tricks all the time, and you need to keep up if you don't want to be left behind.

Poker isn't easy money, but you have to ask yourself if it's better to play Poker than work a 9-5?

I would invent poker.

If it wasn't for poker, I probably wouldn't have played anything...

The same things I currently do. Poker is one of the sports that I learned to love, however, I play others too.

What would I do, if there Poker no was at all?!. Hm, I would strive to create Poker! That's it!

Very dark times would come!!

I probably wouldn't stress out so much. But I wouldn't have had a good laugh either.

I think I would live a normal life, but without that fun that poker generates for me.

hahahaha, what questions. I imagine that I would continue living normally, maybe I would be investing my playing time in something else although I honestly don't know what that would be hahahaha

I'd be a lot richer, that's for sure!

Play other games nothing or noone is indispensable.

of course not, if you do not treat poker professionally, then consider it the best way to make money, for me it is like a hobby in which you can get satisfaction and a little money

I don't really believe that poker is the easiest way to make money.
What I do believe is that, as in every endeavor you undertake, if you have serious and consistent work, in addition to at certain times having the necessary amount of luck, you can achieve great achievements.
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Transform into someone who would rather live in the woods

If you do the right things and don’t make mistakes (play tournaments that are not for br and expensive ones if you outplay them with a skill), then it’s quite possible

All the same things I do when I don't play. Poker is no where near my only hobby hehe. With the spare time I might pick up something else or invest more time in my other hobbies.

I would be very happy but I would be bored, I wouldn't know what to do

just that simple continue my life, and the time that i spend playing poker i will spend it in other things like sport or videos games

luckyfish98 said:

I think I was living well even before I didn't play poker, I guess I felt it because the big win hadn't been won yet

Is poker really the best way to get money?

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good question, the first time You win 1K is too good, then You go after 10K, 50K, 100K and so on. I think in USA and Europe isn't difficult to get a job to win 100K+, specially in IT and Technology.
The best answer is are You happy doing your job regularly, I know many poker players that don't fit in the game at all, they are not players they are complainers lol.

My fellow catdschatter, you can't quit your job and start playing poker 24/7 hoping to make a living. Poker is a game, not a sport. You can train as long as you want, study your opponents all you want, more often than usual you will lose, poker is entertaining, yes, but don't count on it to make a living. e.g. you got lucky and won 100k, take 10% of it for poker and invest the rest, because the variance is after you, it's like gravity, you can't escape it