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I played poker online back when it was legal. Ran my bankroll from a couple hundred up to a few thousand. Got really, really bored playing poker during all my f
by xweb 12y ago
I played poker online back when it was legal. Ran my bankroll from a couple hundred up to a few thousand. Got really, really bored playing poker during all my free time. Ran my bankroll back down to zero a bit before the crackdown, semi-on-purpose. Haven't played since 2010. But it sure was fun for a while. The feel of winning, of knowing exactly what another player will do before you bet, of stringing someone along with a made hand...nothing like it. If it gets legalized in the States again, I'd take a peek.
- sanswork 12y agoI use to play quite a bit and helped out on a few websites and heard the same thing from a lot of the pros(I tended to get bored and make stupid moves so never had a chance). Once its a job it loses a lot of the enjoyment but its hard to step away from something paying you $1K/day at 19-20. Even if you are grinding for most of the day and never having time to actually spend the money.
- duncanawoods 12y agoI have similar feelings. Its weird that online poker ever took off really. The fun of poker isn't playing the odds, its playing people. Its the psychology, the acting, the stacks of chips, the emotions - basically the theatre of the whole event. Nothing quite like being faced with a massive raise and then your opponent fumbles their chips or something and now you know your deuces are good. Only in live poker do you get such sustained experience reading people and attempting to influence their behaviour - much more exhilarating than making statistically correct decisions across a terminal!