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Originally Posted by romad
Poker not gambling...right. 10 years ago you could not find a poker table in Vegas......let alone texas hold'em. The internet and tv exposer made it what it is today....thing is the same percentage of players are loser as before, about 95% plus, just the numbers are greater, so you think thousands are making money WRONG...,,,, back in the day you had a few pros.....you could count them on one hand.......the rest were fish.... dead money degenerate gamblers.
Now with all the tournies and money, people think they all can become a poker genius....for every tourney you have a winner and another qoute "pro"....most you never hear from again. Just watch the last few years WSOP final tables and tell me about all the skill required.
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That's funny I have been playing Poker for over 20 years....the Mirage, Binions, Ballys, Stardust...Commerce in LA. There never was any lack of players. In the old days it was about 60% for Holdem and 40% for 7 Card Stud at Commerce in LA...today it is hard to find a Stud game...and as stated that is what I played almost exclusivily till I came to LV.
There is an old saying in Poker, "If you can't tell who the Fish is at the table, then you are the Fish." I can figure out who the Fish is and it is I!
I am glad there are more Fish out there...who think they are good.
As for thousands winning nope...I would say the old geezers who play everyday do it as much for something to do as making a buck at it. If it does cost them some money, it sure doesn't cost em much. Not if you play everyday for 7 years. All you have to do is watch em and see how tight they are. They probably shyte diamonds...and they do have the patience of Job. All they need is a few guyz who think they are Good. Back in the day I played a 5/10 Stud game at the Mirage and all I could do was $150 for the hours invested. The next day I gave some if not all of it back and it was one hand that I got rolled on by a Flush, that was 12 years ago. But since I came up for the Beinfield spoon show it was a mute point.
The reason why the Locals feed on the tourists is that the Tourists come up to play, they don't have the time to sit and wait for the cards to come. except for the good ones..
I am talking strictly about cash games....in a Tourney such as the WSOP your only playing with a maximum cash amount of the $10,000 buy in. Chris Moneymaker started with a $40 Internet Tourney buy. BTW he id not a good player
Because time is a major factor in Tourneys you have to be on or lucky for a week to get through the 10,000 people who are competing. In other words you can control time in a cash game in a Tourney time constaints control your actions. U can be the bestest player in the world and get knocked out in the first day. Tourneys are a whole differenct skill set than a cash game.