I was thinking about kick starting my blog again after having a break for a few weeks. What actually happened was that I was leaving my blog until the evening and then didn’t feel like doing it and so it simply wasn’t getting done. But what prompted me to get going again was a message that I received yesterday from a player who clearly wasn’t making money online using any type of poker strategy. It just highlighted the ignorance of the person if you read it and I almost want to post it here for reference. It wasn’t an abusive message by any means but he did accuse me of being biased towards poker sites because I work with them…….in fact I will post it and it is from some guy called Ian
“poker sites are crooked and you know they are. they work like fruit machines and roulette machines. after a losing session i can play 5 sit n gos and walk all 5 getting good cards great flops etc. i then begin to lose again till i have no money in my account. i can then reload and go through the process again. i use tracking software and the odds dont add up kk is my biggest losing hand not 7 2 and i always make sure i get heads up pre flop and play aggresive. you shouldnt look at hand percentages anyway u should look at flops hitting 2 or 3 hands hard at once. ive been playing poker 15 years have won 100 plus live tournaments i play texas and dealers choice im not daft. its bent but obviously your site has advertising and its easy to twist your opinion for personal gain.
Apparently he had made money playing live (debatable as he had no idea about sample sizes or variance) and couldn’t do so playing online. Well if I had $1000 for every time I have heard that story then I guess that I would have more money than Phil Hellmuth. If people have absolutely no concept of how much tougher it is to make money online than playing live then how can they possibly succeed? People approach online poker as if it is nothing more than an electronic representation of live poker.
This guy’s sample size of SNG’s was laughable and he gave no data to back up why “KK wasn’t making money and losing more than 7-2”. If you are reading this my friend then rather than waste valuable time writing back to me, take that time and use it and get some good coaching from some of the reputable coaching sites out there by some very good players. All of which make money online in the environment that you claim is impossible. Then when you have educated yourself in poker and variance…..I then urge you to go back and re-read your post because you will be staggered at how naïve it is.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson plays at www.pokerstars.co.uk
