sanekhorror
Rock Star
Silver Level
If poker were gone, it would be a huge shock for me, because I think this is the most relevant type of earnings at this time, I would leave to play computer games, and I would be looking for some kind of universal type of earnings at the same time.
Dorugremon
Rock Star
Silver Level
Depends on what "best" means. If you mean "easy", well, no.
"The best way to make money is to work!"
You will be working quite a lot if you're serious about Poker. It's not something you pick up in a few hours. Like card counting at blackjack, it's not a get rich quick scheme. (I know because I started out as a Counter back in the early '80s) There will be a lot of intense study, work, and effort put in before you ever see your first pay day. That means doing your best to master as well as you can the game of your choice, memorizing the most common odds for drawing hands, being aware of stack and pot sizes to correctly identify +EV situations.
Once that's done, there will be a lot of work to overcome tilt. It does no good to win a bunch of sessions only to blow everything off just because you've hit a patch of rough road. Play long enough and you will see big hands cracked by some fish that made some ridiculous play. Fish are clueless that way; that's also what makes them so profitable. You will sit there, hour after hour, and see nothing but trash hands. Sometimes, it's unbelievable. There are only 1,326 starting hands in Hold 'Em, and it's incredible you see so many bad ones. You have to have the ability to keep throwing them away until you get one you like. Doesn't matter that that (Q,T-o) is the best hand you've been dealt UTG, Throw. It. Away. That's another fishy play: playing the trashiest hands because you haven't seen a decent hand all session, or because of the Gambler's Fallacy: the idea that since something hasn't happened in awhile that it's "due". It isn't, and there's no fighting the math and coming out on top.
Then there's the work at the table: you need to pay attention to your opponents. If playing live, that means no ogling the cocktail girls, keep your eyes on the action, and ignore the Big Game on the overhead screens, leave your smart phone home. If playing on-line, no opening a new tab to watch CensorTube videos or chat on social media. You need to know who's playing and how do they play? I lost count long ago of all the times I've seen the nittiest player sitting behind huge stacks. The other idiots who don't pay attention just hand him stack after stack when it should have been obvious that Mr Nit has pocket aces when he 3-bets all-in because he's never done that with less.
Then the work never stops. You can't let your game go stagnant. New opponents are learning new tricks all the time, and you need to keep up if you don't want to be left behind.
Poker isn't easy money, but you have to ask yourself if it's better to play Poker than work a 9-5?
jonaselloco
Legend
Platinum Level
I don't really believe that poker is the easiest way to make money.
What I do believe is that, as in every endeavor you undertake, if you have serious and consistent work, in addition to at certain times having the necessary amount of luck, you can achieve great achievements.
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What I do believe is that, as in every endeavor you undertake, if you have serious and consistent work, in addition to at certain times having the necessary amount of luck, you can achieve great achievements.
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WellAA
Visionary
Platinum Level
good question, the first time You win 1K is too good, then You go after 10K, 50K, 100K and so on. I think in USA and Europe isn't difficult to get a job to win 100K+, specially in IT and Technology.
The best answer is are You happy doing your job regularly, I know many poker players that don't fit in the game at all, they are not players they are complainers lol.
peaceofcoke
Visionary
Bronze Level
My fellow catdschatter, you can't quit your job and start playing poker 24/7 hoping to make a living. Poker is a game, not a sport. You can train as long as you want, study your opponents all you want, more often than usual you will lose, poker is entertaining, yes, but don't count on it to make a living. e.g. you got lucky and won 100k, take 10% of it for poker and invest the rest, because the variance is after you, it's like gravity, you can't escape it