|
|
 |
Thinking of picking up poker. |
 |
1
 |
grobo Sweden. Jun 04 2010 04:01. Posts 10 | | |
Hello everyone,
First of all, i'm more or less new to this site, i've been browsing it occasionally for a year or two now. Some people might recognize me from TL where i spend most of my time. I'm Swedish and living in Japan at the moment.
Anyway, the other day when i was on the train on my way to school i was just standing there in this humid train forcing myself to look out the window in an attempt to not accidently get a glimpse of the guy in front of me who had the ugliest, weirdest kind of wig i have ever seen, honestly made me feel like barfing. In order to not keep thinking of that wig and seeing it everytime i closed my eyes i kind of forced myself into thinking about other stuff, and out of nowhere i starting thinking about a post Rek made over at TL some time ago, it was basically a story about how he got started with poker and where it took him etc. I remeber thinking "hey, i can relate to some of that" and the more i thought about it the more it would make sense for me to try to play poker.
Now i'm not sitting here thinking "ok, lemme just pick up poker and then i'll start looking up nice $10million apartments to buy with my inevitable profit" I know that very few people can actually make a living off of playing poker, i would just like to find a new hobby and try to get good at it, and if i can pay for the beer the coming weekend by playing poker then that would be great, but i'm not expecting to turn into a millionare.
I'm the kind of guy that has a hard time getting into new stuff but when i finally find something i really like and i can stick to it forever. Take Starcraft for example, i got into it about 10 years ago and i've been playing it ever since, because i loved the game so much and it was always so fun trying to improve, during this time i never even bothered to play any other games except the occasional game here and there, i was set on becoming better and better at Starcraft. Now the bad thing with my situation is that i often try to pick things up like playing guitar or various other instruments but simply end up quitting because there was no sense of instant gratification, i couldn't see myself progress and that made me really disheartened. Despite this i still think that i might be able to get good enough in poker to be able to enjoy it as a hobby, i love to read up on things and whenever i have time i try to pick up as much information on the subject as possible which to me seems like a good thing.
One thing that makes me wonder though is that many of my friends who play poker are pretty smart and if going by the same logic as used above, they should be really succesfull at poker, however, they are not. Why is that?
I would love to pick up poker and if possible get as good as possible at it, but things like that makes me wonder if it's actually possible through pure effort and dedication or if it's just certain kind of people that "has it" and no matter how much effort i were to put into it i still wouldn't get anywhere. Just for arguments sake, say i wanted to become above average and actually reach that "dream level" where i would be able to support myself through just playing poker, would that actually be possible through sheer dedication and effort? I would be really hesitant to pick something up if there were things in my way that i could do nothing about, i want to have the oppurtunity to be #1 even if the chance of that happening is below 0.1%, i still want to know that there is a chance and that it's all up to me and my efforts.
I feel like i'm losing track of where i was going with this blog post, basically i just want to know what you guys think, should i give it a try? did you feel the same way? etc. I have more or less zero experience with playing poker but to me that makes it all the more fun in the beginning when everything is new. The biggest problem right now with trying to get better would be the fact that i'm living in Japan for at least 3 more months and as far as i know it's illigal to play poker here, don't know about play-money though, in any case practicing here won't happen, but i still want to use this time to learn as much as possible, any suggestions as to how i should go about in learning as much as possible without actually playing? I guess it's also worth mentioning that i'm extremely motivated when it comes to getting better.
Basically what i'm trying to ask is.
Is it worth giving poker a try?
Can everybody become a good poker player?
What is the best possible way to learn without
actually playing?
Thanks
|
|
| 1
 |
Carthac United States. Jun 04 2010 04:22. Posts 1343 | | |
You will get out of poker as much as you put into it |
|
| 1 | |
read first paragraph only and I must know... do you have a sister? |
|
| Im only good at poker when I run good | |
|
| 1
 |
HighTimes Lithuania. Jun 04 2010 04:46. Posts 76 | | |
the hardest thing to deal in with poker, is that good decisions don't always get rewarded. It's very hard to stick to your plan, while getting bad (or very good, in some cases) results.
Like not many smart ppl can do stockmarketing, because they cannot handle the risks and swings, so they become stockmarket advisors or smth...
You can get to NL200 or 400 by dedication alone, but depending on your personality, how you handle swings and unrewarded good decisions, it might take a year or maybe even three.
But it's really fun to start it as a hobby, so good luck  |
|
| 1
 |
exalted United States. Jun 04 2010 05:38. Posts 2918 | | |
| | On June 04 2010 03:22 Carthac wrote:
You will get out of poker as much as you put into it |
this is painfully true
2nd lesson is to always be flexible in your mindset, whether that be the decisions you make on the table, the type of games you decide to play, how you perceive your opponents, etc. |
|
| exalted from teamliquid :o | |
|
| 1
|
Jun Croatia. Jun 04 2010 06:05. Posts 825 | | |
I think it's OK to play as a hobby, the swings mentally aren't that hard if u only play as a hobby. As a job tho, it can be mentally unbearable |
| |
|
| 1
 |
SakiSaki  Sweden. Jun 04 2010 06:59. Posts 9685 | | | |
|
| what wackass site is this nigga? | |
|
| 1
|
spets1 Australia. Jun 04 2010 07:45. Posts 2179 | | |
ive only ead ur last four lines
my advice: no |
| |
|
| 1 | |
| | On June 04 2010 05:59 SakiSaki wrote:
dont get into poker |
|
|
| 1 | |
people sayign dont get into poker should fucking quit poker
poker economy isnt going as well as it was...so we must get people to lpay poker as much as we can
so fuck you saying dont get into poker
|
|
| 1 | |
Like, the poker world is not going on the right way
People helping others at improving and people saying to others to not play poker
LOL
It should be the opposite
|
|
| 1
|
K40Cheddar United States. Jun 04 2010 13:16. Posts 2202 | | |
play online for free and if you like it try for real later once you think you know what you are doing.
If you do decide to take it up, be prepared for days of extreme happiness and joy and days where you will want to kill yourself. |
| |
|
| 1
 |
morph1 Sierra Leone. Jun 04 2010 13:20. Posts 2352 | | |
why not
try it if you like it ... start learning get more into it, get soem books post on forums.. meet new ppl |
|
| Always Look On The Bright Side of Life | |
|
| 1
|
grobo Sweden. Jun 06 2010 03:29. Posts 10 | | |
I'm going to give it a shot, but at first i'm only going to be playing around for a while until i get comfortable with the game, but the problem is, as far as i know, playing poker with playmoney is nothing like playing for real since nobody has anything to lose, right?
Anyway, i'll give it a go and after a while i'll give the lowest stakes(?) a try.
Thanks for your input! |
|
| 1
 |
DaEm0niCuS United States. Feb 07 2011 08:22. Posts 3292 | | |
I'll teach you, play me hu at 5/10. |
|
| |
|
|
 Poker Streams | |
|
Contact Users: 1026 Active, 1 Logged in - Time: 07:51
