Re: Drink, props on the poker commentaries
Excellent thoughts, thanks for sharing.
As I've said for years and years.......999/1000 aspiring young poker pros would be better off financially ten years down the road pursuing professional video poker than poker.........glad they don't.
I so don't want to have this debate because I respect all advantage play but fish you live in LV for a reason.
You work ridiculous hours when promos run, you can never take a break when happy hours are occuring, you deal with months of -ev or neutral ev stretches in order to make certain vip statuses I've read. Your peak edge on a VP machine is limited. Mine is not nor will ever be.
If a man comes to a poker table with it in his mind to play until it's all gone.. this happens. If a person wants to play triple draw, o8, plo, stud variants for a first time and has some gamble to them... this happens. More times than not a bad bj player or gambler is on tilt and wants to win it back in the biggest poker game in the casino..this happens.
Very wealthy business men and women want to play that game they see on TV still. My game is getting harder but easier in a lot of ways too. Your game is the same as it always was I believe?
A good poker player can live anywhere in the world and make a good if not great living if he can apply himself and has even decent discipline.
A mediocre player in LA, Connecticut, LV, London, Australia, Macau etc can play and become a expert in no less than 40 different types and variants of poker and can live off different types of fish for life.
Look at the bravo app right now there are 760 poker tables going on from LA, LV, SD, Oregon, Az, NM, Colorado do you really think let's call it 7000 people playing live poker right now at 10 AM that even 300 of them know what their doing? It's a game of pure recreation for 99%. There are 27,089 people playing on stars for real money currently.
You ever hit a rough patch as a cash game player you drop down a limit, regain balance. If you are single and wanna see the world and take some time off head anywhere in the world and play online with 2 million people a day.
You can use software which is legal that gives you a huge edge if you know how to apply it.
I work 24 hours a week on avg. I make almost to a T what a 10th yr RN or a very successful CPA makes. I travel the world and have a pretty decent life off of 1.5 big bets a hour and I'm probably the 10th-20th or so best reg in my area. I have met thousands of poker players in my life from 4/8 limit grinders to 4k/8k big game players and I've never heard anyone say I gotta get home to check my mailers.
Definitely not saying that you can't make a living in VP but I am saying you can live a much better life in poker.
There is a reason no one has ever made a documentary or sold a book, a magazine or a movie on a pro VP AG it's strictly a grinders life and not that interesting of one from what I can tell.. not knocking your hustle just think you're being obtuse in the statement.
When I'm in town in a couple of weeks and have some time we will meet and you and I will play machines.
I'll play the Helmuth heads up machine and you play the VP Machines Surrounding it and whoever has the best hourly in a set time owes the other one a beer? I don't drink but not sure I'll have time for dinner
Have a good day fellas