Originally posted by Ejeckt
Originally posted by MatejM47
Well this highly depends on your definition on ''wealthy''. Do you consider someone working 12 hours a day 350days a year and making 20million a year wealthy? He sure is rich but imo his definitely not wealthy. Personally i prefer a decent amount of money + my freedom then a shitload of money that i actually have to work for.
I guess i just don't care that much about the villas, yacths and having a bunch of expensive cars. That not to say i don't care about the money but as long as i make at 5k a month which is more then enough to support the lifestyle im accustomed to.
On top of that i actually love playing poker. Like when i take a week off i really can't wait to start playing again and i know very few ppl that are excited to go back to work after their vacation. Not to mention i don't have a boss who bitches about waking up at 2pm or telling me when and what to do. Last time i woke up to a sound of alarm clock was in 2012 and pretty much the only responsibility i have is grind those 4-5 hours after waking up and then im free to do what ever i want for the rest of the day.
Like that saying goes,
First your young and you have health/energy and as much time as you want but no money,
Then you start working while you still have health/energy and money but now you have no time,
And then ppl finally retire and have time and money but at this point you no longer have energy/health
With poker i can have all of that right now.
Fwiw if someone offers me 10 times what i make now for me to go work 9-5 for the next 40 years the answer is a definite no.
+1 That's a very good and reasonable attitude to have.
What I mean is this.
Example 1:
I want to be a millionaire and drive a Ferrari and travel all over the world. Is poker a viable way to get to that goal? Will it work for me like it did for Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan and Chris Moneymaker?
Example 2:
I want to be a millionaire and drive a Ferrari and travel all over the world. I read a business book and have a few ideas for a business. Will I be able to create a successful business like {insert any successful well known entrepreneur here}?
Both instances the person would have to work very hard. But the second one just seems that much more likely, doesn't it?
Well that depends. Do you really think that starting the business is that easy and that there's no luck involved? And you need a starting capital which is really hard to get this days. Im not sure about the numbers but imo no more then 1% of the newly started business will ever get to a point where they will make 1million of yearly profit.
Im not sure how much you can make if you beat nl1k and higher stakes and if those games run often enough but im sure there's a few players still making around a million a year.
But im pretty sure making 200-300k shouldn't be to hard if your beating midstakes at a decent rate.
And i don't think the games are getting tougher by the day, the games got tougher twice in the last 10 years, first after UIEGA and then after black friday, both directly related to the lack of the American fish. What happened after black friday is that pretty much every good US reg that makes a 100k a year moved out in order to play poker so we still have all the good US regs still playing while there is pretty much 0 US fish playing.
I think that when and if the US sorts out their current poker situation and US market opens up again that games will get better again and higher stakes will run more often.
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