I'm going to start learning how to play texas hold em. I only make 11 bucks an hour at my job and if I can make a little extra at playing poker that would be great. I only bring home about 750 bucks every two weeks. Is pokerstars.com a good place to start? Shit now that I think about it I could make more money selling things on ebay then I could going to work.
ElementZ
06-01-08, 05:48 PM
Here is what Barry says
"I would tell him he should not be playing poker seriously. If someone is an amateur, he is already way behind the curve.....It is hard to get into poker late, just like it would be hard to become a pro golfer if you started golfing at 25"
pedagogue
06-01-08, 08:32 PM
Needing to make money on something is hard enough, let alone gambling....which is even harder.
MANBREASTS
06-01-08, 10:29 PM
Thank's for the advice guys, considering I'm 33 I guess it is a little too late.
mgbfan
06-02-08, 01:28 PM
Please take up poker. Put all of your money into a good site. Oh, and be sure to find a table where I'm sitting.
After all, poker is easy to master. You should be making a tidy profit in a day or two. I can think of absolutly no reason why this might be a bad idea.
El Scorcho
06-02-08, 03:56 PM
Needing to make money on something is hard enough, let alone gambling....which is even harder.
"gambling"
-ohbfrank-
It's not gambling if you know what you're doing.
mgbfan
06-02-08, 07:13 PM
"gambling"
-ohbfrank-
It's not gambling if you know what you're doing.
I've stopped trying to explain it.
namja
06-03-08, 02:08 AM
If you're a beginner, it's pretty much gambling.
Or you can just call that tuition.
El Scorcho
06-03-08, 05:36 PM
Thankfully many of us here had our tuition subsidized by frequent and gratuitous bonuses in the early 2000s.
mgbfan
06-03-08, 11:59 PM
Bonuses were nice, but they had nothing on the very early poker boom. Money just falling from the sky without so much as a thought about bonuses.
Man, I miss those days. So many utterly clueless players, you didn't even care about bonuses.
El Scorcho
06-04-08, 01:07 PM
Now I've relegated myself to 6-tabling SH limit tables against a bunch of 28/18s waiting for that 1 fish that somehow managed to get money onto the site to show up in the empty seat. :(
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