I was reading some comments from American players, pros and amateurs alike, about how tough the online cash games have become over the last year or two, and just wondered what the current future of online poker is with regards to ring games. For instance, is Asia an upcoming market, or do they have seemingly unmovable laws set in place that restrict people from playing online? What are the chances of Asia becoming a viable market for online poker? Also, is the American government going to overturn the Unlawful Gambling Act at any stage, or at least find a way in which people can get back to ambushing the online sites in their masses? Does anyone have an insight into this, an opinion perhaps, or even some links to different discussions, articles, etc that might be of interest. The games just seem to be getting tougher and tougher, and sooner or later you're going to run out of new players, and thus fish. It would be interesting to know what the future holds.
My old man told me way back that it is only a matter of time before large proportions get better and better and you have to run ever faster just to maintain your position, as it were.
I do not agree with this.
When you play poker and win consistently (I did this one week in '04, for example), you are deviating from fundamental natural tendencies. Tendencies to laziness, rashness, fundamental biases, stupidity, lack of control and untethered rashness. How many times did you win a tournament/big pot because you made some Einstein insight and just outthought the other guy? And how many times because the other guy just did something )*()ng stupid. You see it all over the place. Even big tourneys, big names.
How to make money at poker: learn the game, then don't be stupid. You could sit and play a tight, unadventurous game with no insight and still make cash from chaos.
Have you read a book on poker? Then you're already well ahead of the masses.
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