How to play poker for a living?
Article written by Hans Rhodin
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
It is possible and actually very easy to make a living on this game. Everyday there are thousands (if not millions) of party players who have found their way to the online poker rooms and with no experience they are making all the mistakes one possible can think of. I normally don't like to rip people off their money but it sure feels good to do that when playing online poker. I should state here that there are plenty of good poker players out there too but it's all a question of choosing the right room to play in. As a tip one should start out easy and make small bets for some rounds and try to figure out how good the other players are. This isn't so hard if one just know some poker tactics and there are plenty of places to learn how to play if not already knowing how to play the game.
I wonder for how long this gold-mine will stay open? Don't people getting tired of throwing away their money? It sure doesn't seem like that. I know a lot of people who have played for some years now and even though most of them do loose money they still go back to the table and loose more. It's not the lost they regret but rather all the evenings they are missing the action. Poker is more then just gambling. It's fun, excitement and a way to kill some hours at late nights or early mornings. I know people who are professional poker players who do participate in big tournaments in Las Vegas among other cities. They are real sharp when it comes to read other players at the table and they can smell a bluff from miles. Even though that they don't play so good poker online. That is mainly because online you can't see the other players in person. Many don't play the same game as a pro and a professional player have hard to play a rational game with people who have very little knowledge of the game. They just don't play rational.
If you are going to be a winner online you have to learn how to play online poker. It's the same rules as regular poker and in many cases a lot easier but one is many times handicapped if playing like a Vegas pro.
To handle the game as a pro online you have to adapt other strategies and another way of reading your competitors and here you really don't need much knowledge about the game. Just pick up a book, read some tutorials on Internet and you can start making money almost directly. The best places to play aren't in the high stake rooms but in the low stakes. Here you find the happy armatures who gladly give their money away for just having the joy of sitting by the table late at night in the underwear's, smoking a cheap cigars and drinking even cheaper whiskey. If they can take to get ripped off night after night and still feeling satisfied I won't be the one neglecting them those joyful moments. If you don't go for the big money you can for sure make a living on playing poker online. You just have to be satisfied with earning some 200$ to 500$ per night.
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