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wow, I can't believe people are making a living playing poker. I am 18 and just started college and all I do most of my time is play poker. I want to be pro and make a 6 figure income. everytime I play in a freeroll tournament, my parent alway yell at me and tell me to get off and do my homework. But I won't gave up my dream on becoming pro. So could anyone gave me anyadvice on how to make money online playing poker?
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If you would like to be a pro before college is over, make sure u play as much as u can while ur at school, and save some time for some college stuff, and i dont mean class. The more u go to class, the lower ur chances of becoming pro will be
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Well check this out then, I am a young working kid trying to make it, and I want to become a pro as well. I even have a major event cash, and have retooled my game, and have been playing well, turning a small .50 bank roll (left over from playing stupid) and am up to almost 5 bucks! I want to play in the big time! how bout staking this young online prodigy in the making?
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Xmas32
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11-08-2007 6:08 PM
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This is awesome, I'm in tears laughing at this thread.
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LMAO @ selling candy for double to your brother
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Find somebody to back you in playmoney!!! I might be willing too if I see you have skills. Also start playing lots of "indian head" penny poker thats how I got my start. If you win any real money sng over 10 bucks thats when its time to quit school and dive in head first.
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If you want to make a living playing poker, play cash games... end of story. Not many people can endure the swings of playing exclusively tournament poker. Learn solid strategy, get experience, and employ self discipline when you play and you will make money. When you end up at 2/4 or above you can easily make 100k+ a year.
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OK, here is a tip for those who want to improve. Look ' alsanre ' up and look at how he play, really, I been looking at the guy for about 4 day now ( about 30 hour) . and i won 7 out of 1,437 people today. I now get how to play tournament, tip: blind stealer with high card or pair. And If i make a 6 figure income, i will definately remember u guy on this post.
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lol this tool cant even spell and ppl ship him monies wudda joke
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Sad it takes a misdirected, confused vietnamese/american teenager to bring tears to your eyes.
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tcmeb
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11-08-2007 7:43 PM
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1. You can make a living playing other games. Cash games are filled with swings. Huge swings. Sngs actually have the least amount of variance.
2. You can make over 100k a year playing less than 2/4. You could do it playing .5/1 if you put in good number of hours and were good at multi tabling.
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| yea I read it, but I am pretty smart though. And I am one of those person who don;t want to work by the hour, I am one of those who want to make money doing something. quote ' don't work for money, let ur money work for u'. |
Kimmi, I hope I can provide some perspective. I'm a 45 year-old Asian American (I was 18 once, I think.) and I like a good poker game. I'm EV+ online; I've doubled my bankroll this year by steady grinding. But it's a hobby.
I make a 6 figure income and I have for the last 10 years. Before that, I had a high 5 figure income. How did I do that? I worked my ass off in college and got a good paying job. And the best thing about working is that there's NO VARIANCE and health insurance, to boot. I think you greatly underestimate the variance that you'll have to survive to wave that $1000 to your parents. (A statistics course would really help you there.)
Poker is ultimately a zero-sum game; for every $1 won, there's $1 lost. Actually it's worse, because of the rake. Even the rare winner, like Stu Unger, destroyed his life from addictions because he wanted to get that high he got from winning poker in other ways.
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99 % of the time freerolls and play money arent anything like real money tournaments. If you want to be exposed to real experiance against good players you HAVE to play for real money. The higher the better.
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