I agree that if you are a superior player you can make money in the long run at poker. I have developed a probabilities program and make $$ at the horse races. Who'd a thunk it?
It is just nice to play a game where your ability is the determining factor even in the short-run. Chess!
yes who would have thunk it?
One of my big break-throughs was when I learned I could pay a 6.5 % commission with British turf accountants instead of paying the 17% commission charged by North American tracks. Of course, government restrictions prevent most of the people on this continent from using British companies.
I look at people's chess ratings when reading comments. Got to get mine up further if I want to have the credibility of a Scottrf
I'll see if I can get my 20 man sng record but don't think the other site presents the results like this. Doubt you will think it's possible because you probably think poker is luck.
How many of these threads do we have?
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Wow all of these poker threads. Can we delete most of them?
The only reason we have all these poker threads on the first page is because you bumped them... if you would just stop bumping them, they would be hidden dozens of pages back where no one would ever see them.
Your posts are completely counterproductive to your cause.
The only reason we have all these poker threads on the first page is because you bumped them... if you would just stop bumping them, they would be hidden dozens of pages back where no one would ever see them.
Your posts are completely counterproductive to your cause.
That is, if his cause is indeed to supress the poker threads.
Chess and poker and both great games but they are also both zero sum games. In order for someone to win someone else has to lose.
To devote your life to a zero sum game like chess or poker fails to maximize the potential of both yourself and society.
Most people who play chess and poker are smart people and those who play them at an elite level are borderline geniuses given the complexities of the games.
Imagine if these individuals devoted their lives to positive sum games such as business, where they can create strategic business plans that lead to innovative products and services for consumers and gainful employment opportunities in the workforce.
There are no losers in that game, which is the definition of a positive sum game. That in my opinion is something worth devoting your life to.
Just my two cents...feel free to agree or disagree.
Doesn't a business compete for people's money against other businesses?
I play chess for fun, anything i win is purely a bonus.
Practically and theoretically, chess is more complex than poker. It's not even close. They are not the same category of game. Chess requires absolute precision, calculating out long, concrete variations of moves. Poker requires very little precision. It doesn't matter if you are a percent off on your equity estimate. There is already such a big margin for error, you just try to get it reasonably close. It's not rocket science, it's not even that hard. In chess, there is a mountain of knowledge to master. It takes 5-10 years of full time study to get started in chess. In poker there is a very small amount of knowledge to master, at which point the task becomes mastering your irrational self and not screwing it up because you are bored or tired or angry or frustrated or any of 100 other emotions.
I don't know if you're primarily playing online, but if so, I think it's quite foolish to play online in the U.S. right now. Sites can get shut down, your money confiscated, and you will never see it again. It already happened once, and we were lucky to get our money out many months later. If you are in such need of money, you would do much better to get another job. Then in a few years when online poker is legal again, you will have a big pile of cash to play with.
Personally, since poker is not legal at the moment, I'm going with trading stocks.
Well in Canada you have societies created by the governements in the provinces that actually promote Poker and provide you a a safe and legal platform to play it!
They figured out they had as best make some money out of it as well...
I never said business isn't competitive. It is very competitive. But unlike poker and chess that competition creates value to society when it leads to innovation. Those businesses that fail to innovate, instead choosing to rely on past successes, generally lose market share to those that are more forward thinking.
I have over 200% return on SnGs and 150% HU multiplayer tournaments so far this year. Steamrolled.