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One of the best HN posts I’ve ever read. Thanks for sharing your story. I don’t have any doubt you’ll be happy about your pivot and successful in your next phase. Good luck.
I was under the impression that online poker rooms are low key rigged and at the very least just cycle through preexisting card combinations rather than doing even a programmatic randomization (let alone using a true external source of randomization).
I don't know about rigged. But there is a lot of RTA (real time assistance) usage on the sites. Essentially clients that inform you of the best decisions to make according to GTO principles.
Why is this on an indian car forum? Is it like bodybuildning forum where its a lot of unrelated stuff?
Author here. I originally wrote it on my blog (www.rnikhil.com) and cross-posted on team-bhp.com . Its not just a car forum but just enthusiastic folks discussing anything and everything. Like HN but based on cars and not startups. Somebody posted the link here from team-bhp.
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Something like football or chess or Formula 1 is valuable in itself; there's a beauty and elegance in seeing the hard thing done well. In poker even the thing you're celebrating is zero-sum. Could person A fool person B or could person B read them; that's not people collaborating to create something in the way that two tennis players beating out a long rally are, that's just A vs B. And so much of the game is simply…
I enjoy chess and Formula 1 too! I think poker is broadly misunderstood to be a game of luck disguised as a game of skill when in reality it is very much a game of skill in the long run. The "long run" here being hundreds of thousands of hands. There are absolutely brilliant plays in poker at its highest levels when a player finds an interesting line with a particular hand. I agree that most poker "highlights" are no…
I find interesting that no one (yet) in OP or in the comments has talked about my main complaint about playing Poker as a living: it's a zero sum game where you basically only take money from other people. It's not productive. For me, that in itself is as depressing as the grind. But it appears most players don't really care about this, maybe because life oftentimes is not fair and thus being productive is not seen a…
It's a negative sum game.
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Many former poker players move into finance/trading. Could be a viable route. The owner of Brighton is a former poker player: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2023/sep/20/bright... .
Poker is a great analogy for the market. You don't make money by having amazing unique insight, you make money by finding soft players and milking them for money. All the retail investors and day traders are the amateur players thinking they are decent but really are just getting milked
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> Help me get to 1000 karma and I’ll stop posting forever. This beautiful, it has a hook in both directions. Like a little piece of art sitting here on the site.
I am downvoting xwdv because I want him to keep posting.
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Friend of mine did this in the heyday. He’d have, like a dozen games going. Hunting and playing “soft players” (as the GP calls them). I don’t know how long he played, he certainly didn’t mention a grind as described here. But, he netted enough to buy his then new $30k Lexus. A lucrative hobby if nothing else.
Your story reminded me of a case I personally know of a guy who was a very disciplined poker player for a period of time and one day won a sweet €90000 prize in an online tournament after a lot of effort. Apart from poker, his life was a mess (living with his mother, no even a driving licence, no serious job). He spent the whole amount on partying, hotels and cocaine. He never got again any substantial money from pok…
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Author here. I originally wrote it on my blog (www.rnikhil.com) and cross-posted on team-bhp.com . Its not just a car forum but just enthusiastic folks discussing anything and everything. Like HN but based on cars and not startups. Somebody posted the link here from team-bhp.
That would be me. Apologies as I didn't know about the original entry at rnikhil.
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I have a friend who got into poker in the 90s. He did a lot of studying and practicing at home, then took a bus down to Atlantic City to try his luck, goal was to pay for a ticket back. He ended up making a lot more money than that (more than he’d ever made in a paycheck up to that point!), but half of it was from a guy with more teeth out of his possession than in his possession. Most of his opponents were irrationa…
Specifically, if you're fixing to earn serious money off playing poker, your job is to SEEK OUT irrational addicts fighting personal demons, and personify said demons. You're basically looking to find prey and eat them. The wounded will be less capable of running away from you. You could lurk outside the door and hit them with a rock or stab them with a knife, but that would be illegal. Functionally you're playing a…