Is playing poker professionally profitable? Or is it a meme?

Is playing poker professionally profitable? Or is it a meme?

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Yeah dawg everybody's doing it

possible, but not as juicy as it used to be

What changed?

Online is awful
If you live next to a good casino live is ok but realistically youre looking at 5bb/hour if youre really good, which isnt much at 2/5

Its cringey learn a job skill that you can use for monetary gain in your spare time. Unless you are the Rain Man

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Remember where there is a winner there's a loser

It’s the same thing as playing Uno professionally user. Don’t forget that one normie could be getting a set of really good cards

Free money.

everyone who wants to do it does it for profit, it used to be "cool" so now instead of taking money from douchebags who want to be cool, you actually just have to do math all day.

the edges are smaller, people are better, a lot more grinders who know the math and fold a lot

live poker at the casino is still pretty good and profitable tho

nah. theres like really go AI bots out there now. google "deepstack"

do NOT try to make a career playing poker

t. me

Can be profitable. My second cousin gave up maths teaching to do it, and does ok. From the little I know, it's pretty much a grind on the odds.

Cards are irrelevant unless your opponent is a card counter, and even then you have to really fuck with them

i had a very blessed life playing poker for a long time. I never made a fortune but I had enough to travel the world, do lots of drugs, party, and fuck lots of women and a metric ton of prostitutes. All live play, from 1/2 up to 10/20 never any major shot takes and never bothered playing a tournament. Just grinding and game selecting. Would I recommend? maybe. I have a LOT of life leaks so I can only imagine I would have ended up with a very nice nest egg going into my 30s if i wasn't a complete degenerate and I hit my grove and never bothered improving my game much afte the first few years.

Yes but probably not for you if you're asking here.. Just don't even bother trying to learn at this point. The competition is very legitimate now.

find a soft casino IRL

online is all bots and pros. very cut throat.

dumb americans were dropped. they fed the entire pro community.

Good stuff bro, I did that too, minus the having sex and doing drugs.
I wish I had stopped trying to move up and just grinded it out at 0.5c/$1 full ring Lagtarding and getting fish nice and mad till they dump their stacks to me. I could have made 200K per year and really set myself up.

Can't do it now days, games are far too tight, too many bots, to beat house rake.
Poker is over. OVER.

I wonder what the next opportunity like poker or crypto will be.

Any tips to get better at exploiting?

T. Casual live player

Basically this. I live two minutes away from a casino which is fortunate but the rake gets up to $7/hand at 1/2 which is what you're playing against along with all the live players. When I started playing live cash games it was exhilarating and I got nervous often causing a lot of mistakes I normally wouldn't commit. You need to have bank-roll management and immerse yourself in the game and establish a range as well as image for yourself and play accordingly.

When I first got into playing live cash games I started watching poker vlogs of guys who recorded themselves at the tables and would later review their hands. This guy started making videos about the time I started playing and I just like the way he does his videos and hand analysis.
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It’s just like pro gaming, you have to be really fucking good and then get really fucking lucky.

>Is playing poker professionally profitable? Or is it a meme?

Start out the smallest possible stakes online (1c/2c) and grind that until you're an actual winning player. Meaning you have a positive roi over 100k+ hands. Even at the lowest stakes this is very hard to achieve for a new player without a lot of studying, going over lost hands, etc. If you're able to become a winning player at these stakes online you will absolutely destroy donks and drunks at a 1/2, 1/3 table in live casinos. To get started pick up Harrington on Cash games 1 and 2. The information is outdated, but a solid framework on TAG/LAG player styles.

Black Friday in 2011 crippled online poker. I miss the burgers, they were so horrid.

FUCK THE DOJ

you're 15 years too late m8.

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Bots. Do not play online unless it is for smaller stakes

Sign up for online poker courses that are reasonable. Redchip poker is $20 a month. That’s a steal and you can learn virtually everything there.

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THE EXPENSIVE COURSES. some are $1000 -$2000 and they don’t teach you much more.

Not true. You have to be good and disciplined. You also have to start out with a proper sized bankroll for the game
Size you are playing.