I had someone the other day ask me about online poker and if it was still possible to make a living at it…….of course it is. Let me quote a football example for a minute. Imagine if you were the poker equivalent of a non league side that played in the tier of football just below the football league. You may not be a great football team but you would be superior to all of the weaker sides in the entire country. If you were to play these sides for money (if that were possible) then you could make a very good living.
But imagine if the standard of play increased so that most teams were playing quite close to your standard. Would this mean that you could no longer make money? Well it would if you stayed at your present level but the key then is to make yourself as strong as a lower football league side. This leap isn’t anywhere near as far as going from the lower football league to the Premier League or the Champions League.
Can you see where I am coming from here? You do not need to be a great poker player to make money online as you can pick and choose the level of opponents that you play against. So there is simply no need to panic with regards to how online poker is going. Every single day there are literally thousands upon thousands of people coming of age who are computer literate who will want to play online poker. Many of these players will simply not educate themselves higher than a certain level either through a lack of time or inclination to do so.
At the end of the day, people want to be good and they want to be winners but most people do not want to have to put the work in to get to that stage. So they look for short cuts and is why they get seduced by bots, systems and cheating techniques. My poker challenge on www.888poker.com where I am trying to convert $100 into $10k is basically trying to prove that anyone can make money at low-stakes poker with minimal risk. For those interested then the bankroll currently stands at $323 by the way so I am slowly starting to make progress.
If more and more people gave up aspirations to be big shots or gave up their pie in the sky ideas then I am convinced that the way to make money for most people is in the comfort of their own homes doing boring and repetitive things constantly. Because this is what winning poker is all about! It isn’t about Las Vegas or The World Series or anything glamorous like that. Poker is a job and most jobs are dull but it is only the poker media that paints a picture of excitement.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson can be contacted at Sharkpooldean@yahoo.co.uk for coaching and his poker systems.
