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What is "a pretty good hourly rate"? Just enough to subsist on? Equal to a software engineering salary? Or enough to outearn most careers?
by avarun 3y ago
What is "a pretty good hourly rate"? Just enough to subsist on? Equal to a software engineering salary? Or enough to outearn most careers?
- xetplan 3y agoI have never met a losing poker player. It is always the same story. Do you know how you can tell everyone is largely full of shit when it comes to poker? No one ever talks about the rake. They are a winning player no matter what the rake and that obviously can't be true. The other issue is the variance is so high in no limit that to converge to a true win rate in live full ring poker takes years of playing full time.
- thatguysaguy 3y agoIn this particular case I've just directly looked at the friend's pokertracker data, which includes rake values and then you just add rakeback to get the total. It's harder to cope oneself in an online setting where there's just a precise recording of all results.
- adamlett 3y agoI think you can safely assume that unless someone is part of the absolute poker elite, they are unlikely to be earning anything near the median software engineering income. It’s not impossible, but it would require access to some unusually soft high stakes games, and while such games do exist, they are typically invitation only.
- thatguysaguy 3y agoLower than software, but about $50/hr