Does it ever end?
Poker mimics life.
Well, there is a lot of life analogies we can do with poker. It would be interesting to do a master list or those.
Please don’t say that. I’ve been running bad in poker for years. Life has been pretty decent for the most part in the same time span!
If you are running bad for years I hate to tell you it just means you suck.
Better than keep playing when losing and quit when winning 😜
I’m honestly really looking forward to being an OMC
Just having all the youngins and your fave dealers waking you up every few hands, getting it in good with AA or KK, living the fucking dream
Ol’ Man Crazy!! Any two babyyyyy!!!
I play that way and break even after winning half of the high hands for the night.
I will play until I die. It’s the most fun game ever.
Gotta get into mix games, fuck I love 2-7
That’s my favorite NLHE alternative. I just can’t find a game anymore.
I literally play poker for a living, but play the free chips 2-7 on stars for fun lmao
I want this but on a hoodie
I can do that. Pullover, I assume so zipper doesn’t get in the way. Color preferences?
I predict that is where the next money maker effect is going to happen..a sudden rush into the mix games ..a lot of people are getting interested..
Same
Too bad, no seven card stud games anywhere. I was raised on that and my mother’s milk.
There’s some 50/100 stud8 and sometimes stud8/stud going at bellagio and wsop cash games going most of the World Series. I want to go to Vegas just to play them
I just got back from Vegas and the 50/100 Stud8 at WSOP Paris was pretty terrible action. It's always the same old lady that plays 1 hand an hour, an Eastern European Old Man Crusher, a couple nits, and a couple younger grinders.
The 50/100 Stud Mix at Bellagio was a little more interesting, but still relatively tough compared to the 40/80 Mix where they do like 10+ games.
I will stop when I can't see the cards or can't math.
My dad played until a few months before he died at 86. Maybe less than a few months.
May his soul rest in peace , but I plan being just like ur pops. A beautiful game and one I will be playing until I can’t no more. Responsibly of course and even a .10/0.25 game. No matter the stakes
Bro I doubt I could regularly afford punting at my actual rate in .10/.25 once I am retired.
I gotta find myself some new broke friends to play lower stakes.
Yea for sure. I’m 33 now and when I see those old like 70 year olds by themselves with like a k in front of them at like a 1/2 table I’m hoping that’s me in 30+ years.
Probably, on and off.
I've been playing poker for 10 years. I was pro for the past two years due to layoffs in the tech sector and couldn't find a job with a focus on PLO and have been somewhat successful but no where near what I was doing prior to poker.
The past month I have taken a break from poker to focus on trying to get a real world job again. I don't miss it but at the same time I always feel the urges to play at times. At the end of the day i've realized I'll never stop playing and will probably average at least once to 3 times a week even when I get employed again.
I will say this though that playing for a living causes a lot more disdain for the game then having a job and play poker for fun. I have been decently successful at poker (making 70-100k a year over the past two years) but it stressful as fuck full time. There is nothing like going in everyday for a month straight and being negative 20k for that month even though you are up over the past 3 months. Being a weekend warrior is the key to this game.
I took a similar path almost 20 years ago.
Started playing full time when work slowed down 2006-2008. Positive returns but only about 30% of my work rate and playing full-time to win destroyed the fun of the game. Losing was so much more dreadful when I was tracking every session. A losing week would keep me depressed and I'd lose sleep too.
So much better just playing for fun now and then.
This is some real insight
What sort of tech? Might know some people
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Very true. And some MTT pros I know , can win or lose 80k in a month. Just being able to be down that long but man must it feel good if you bink a $3-$5k and get out of the downswing and actually be profitable again. Super tough to do for a living but I’ll continue to play poker for fun for many years to come !
I mean If I were rolled this high I could do it but this sounds miserable. I don't really play tourneys though 99% cash, I'll play 5-6 tourneys a year.
A lot of poker comes down to luck though several people i know are very average to below-average players and won a couple tournaments running hot and changed their bankrolls/networths over night. Other people I know are amazing players and never binked a big one and continue to grind. Almost not fair in a way lol.
I plan on playing as long I enjoy it
How long do you plan on enjoying it?
Until the next time I lose a 95-5
That's a good question 🤔
No I’m gonna die eventually
quitter
I do it for a living and even if I really enjoy it today, I feel like it’ll be harder to enjoy and/or to be competitive in 15+ years as I grow older. But I’m not afraid of the future, I’ve seen countless poker pro have nice reconversions and I have other skills and diplomas
I’ve been playing since I was in the Army in the 70s. I play at various casinos when I go to Vegas, and in CT where I love to play the part of an OMC, then flip over 72 off bluff
If I ever move to the states I would play more than 3 times a week.
For as long as I can, financially, Physically(seeing the cards and board) mentally ( understanding what is going on)
Yea. Some folks golf, some folks scuba dive, some folks go camping… I like to play cards.
I like to do all those things. Life is great
Yes. It’s a fun game to play
Not sure at this point. I’d probably eventually want to move somewhere rural (so likely without poker nearby) and have my own house with a large garden and some chickens, but the issue is that I don’t have even remotely anywhere near enough money to do this (idk why I’m even fantasizing about it when I barely even have a bankroll for poker) and won’t have it until I’m retirement age (if even then lmao).
Get good kiddo
Why the hell would you want to move to a rural area and have chickens? Anti social tendencies? As a born and bred New Yorker I don’t trust people who don’t want to live near others
Why would you not want to live in a rural area. Nature is way better than anything humans could build. I can't argue on the anti social part tho 😭
All human progress is based upon people living together and supporting each other. Moving to a rural area is turning your back on humanity and giving into the reptilian part of your brain.
Cooperation is what causes Homo Sapiens to thrive.
Large scale cooperation has fucked up humanity and the world like nothing else. Ever since going from hunter gatherer small bands of sapiens to agriculture with large stories like nation, religion, corporations or money, the conditions for the average human have gone down, the "progress" we made with it so far has brought more horror than utopia.
Eh you can still have communities in rural places. It's not like you're living in a cave in the jungle with no civilization
a lot of people want a simple life. the heck is wrong with you lol. and the real question is why in the world would anyone want to live in NEW YORK. a total dump. traffic, urine, high cost, crime. i'd rather go where she's going.
Anti social tendencies. Living alone with your FOX news and your cousin that you married. Hick
I don’t mean like in the middle of nowhere, I mean like where I could have some animals and grow my own vegetables but still live within an hour or so of a major city.
just ignore that guy. bro lives in NY and is questioning why someone would want to move to a peaceful place.
Yeah I don’t trust you. I’m skeptical of people who move to New Jersey from the city. So you moving to the moon by comparison screams of anti social behavior and my mind won’t ever be changed here. (This is sort of a joke but I’ve never lived outside of a major metropolitan area in my life and I do literally wonder why anyone would live outside a beltway)
You moved to Birmingham from NYC you literally left society
I don’t live in that made up place and resent the implication. You’ll never be invited to my flat’s basement game in the council estates.
I’d probably eventually want to move somewhere rural
This is something I never understood. Cities are literally where all the opportunity and anything worth doing is.
Price is a measure of how much people want a thing; there is a reason prices are low in rural areas... they are shit places to live.
The older I get, the more I'd love to move as far away from a city as possible. One of my current job sites is in a small town. Even if its a strenuous work day, I feel absolutely no stress just being there. It's amazing what it does for you mentally.
In a few years you will be complaining about taxes and young people's hair styles.
Been Doin that for a few years. I think my next phase is tucking in my sweater, and always having Werthers in my pocket
Well one kind of degen to another I guess.
Other than playing tennis and poker occasionally, I don’t really do much of anything that requires a city. I guess if I had friends or pursued a career I couldn’t do remotely I would feel differently.
Its never too late to make friends; or at least, that is literally what I tell myself as I try to rebuild a social life in my mid 40s. I don't make nearly as much use of my city as I should, hell sometimes I don't leave the house for a week or more.
But you know.... giving up on turning that around is like, whats even the point?
It never ends.
Yes
It's part of my retirement plan. I love it and never want to quit.
Yes until the computers solve poker
Solved heads up
Right. Multi-way NL is way way way more complex. Probably will be a while before computers completely solve it. Still, humans can just throw in a wrinkle to the game and throw off the solved strategy.
If I think it's profitable
Yea
Why not?
I look forward to aging out of my impatient punty antics
Until my brain gives up and can't follow the action any more.
And if I ever upload my consciousness to the singularity, then yes. Forever is definitely an option.
Yes
Maybe. Maybe not. I'm sold all my poker equipment and taken five year breaks before without giving the game a thought. We'll see.
gawd I hope not. But I've been stuck since 2005. Digging myself out of this hole is taking a lot longer than I expected
As long as I'm breathing. Some months more than others but it will always be a part of my life.
Yes
Pokers dead in 10 years so 10 years lol
I been enjoying poker since I was 9 years old, 2 years later and I refuse to stop!
Yes.
It will always be a side thing/for fun. I have a good enough job that I have fun money to use. Even currently I'm doing okay but I would never leave my job to play full time. I think that would take the fun out of it.
Forever? Only as long as I’m allowed to on this earth.
As I get older, I like how it’s keeping my brain sharp.
At times I plan to never play the game again and I play professionally.
Yes
Yep
Nah I’m going to stop on my next BB
Yes I think so, although I would like to think that at some point in the future it will not be my main source of income.
I would actually love to be a whale one day, it looks like so much more fun!
Yes
I plan to play a little here and there the rest of my life 100%
Edit to add : Will I make a living at it? Hell no
Seeing as the prize pools for Canada are being reduced by the week, yes I'll stop playing poker.
I don't know about end but the games can sure dry up sometimes. Haven't had a home game for weeks in my area, I think Vegas is claiming some bankrolls this year.
Poker has caused me a great deal of despair ever since I started playing almost a decade ago. The lows have always outweighed the highs. Despite this, I've accepted that it will be a part of my life until the day I die.
this game is brilliant but it's a grind. i'm just a casual but been messing with online lately. i'm slightly positive but don't intend to keep going. it sucks your time and life. seriously. the truth is that for most people this is not worth it except as a hobby/fun.
To some extent until I can function I will continue playing :)
Not unless I have unlimited funds at retirement age I went on a 8 year live down swing where I couldn't make a pair for Three years straight and then when I made a hand like flopped sets or nut straights every time I'm talking every time on turn on the river they hit their draw which beat my hand. Sounds like Ive been cheated right? It was in a casino so how could that be . Anyway that period is over and it sucked and if it ever happens again I'll never play again. Sure I had winning sessions but the losses outweighed the wins. Talk about learning to fold and people showing because they know how bad I was running and that I was making the right lay down
Online poker is not fun.
Everytime I win, I'm gonna play forever Everytime I lose, I'm never playing again