pleno's talking about working 40/50 hours a week grinding online - I couldn't just "add that" to my live schedule. I've been playing probably 20 hours a week online for the last 4/5 months and done OK, but not winning much, but the variance is so big in MTTs that the results in that time matter very little.
Horses are always in makeup, everytime they play a comp they're in makeup. Overall they're doing very good and will get better over time I'm sure.
Yeah I get all that.. MTT big variance etc my point was because of this y not jus go down the easy £30k route and clone it X number of times via teaching pupils = £lots. obv not that easy and I was prob being a bit flippant as I believe pleno was when he stated it. Altho pleno finds it relatively easy in reality it cant be that easy for even those slightly above average or everyone wud do it. Ty for replying will draw a line under it now and gl with ur mtt grind and ur stable.
It's really my as simple as you say, likewise it's not as simple as I say either.
People are really lazy or they are v über airworthy. People give up far too easily and people are scared to commit or take a chance.
There is less than 0.1% of people who would actually give up their 20k year a job to try and make a success of this and rightfully so as a lot of people won't have coaxes or people to hold their hand.
Douglas rider actually recently took 3 Chinese geniuses on and rougt them to Vegas iirc they went from nl100 to ml10k. V quick and after 3 months playing poker one knocked Philip Ivey donut out of the 10k shoot out in the WSOP.
I'm certain that for example a Maths based guy who is quite streetwise and normal would make a very good wage. It's just so unrealistic that this happens. Regarding stables, again this is very unlikely for example in my stable I have a guy who IRS to Nigeria and offline for a month very now r then a poker room dealer who works on weekends when the games are tough and a guy who works long hours in it ad then goes home to see his family on the weekend.
Poker takes a backseat, rightfully so and of anything all of these guys should probably just completely forget about poker and enjoy their social times with friends or doing other things than grinding small cash games as in 80pc of occasions they will just not be able to overcome the time issues and also when they do play they will e v tired/not focused and lose concentration, a la John black.
He's perfect example if he actually played full time and had to pay bills and played when he wants rather than having I feel like he needs to win x amount in each session e would probably be very successful. He fact is he has a job, travels in his job and has a gf. He really loves the game and tries very hard the simple fact is its just difficult to put learning and playing poker alogosde a normal life.
This comes from a guy who works a full time job, plays football 3 times a week, coaches 15 hours a month, tries to run a stable and then fit in time for poker!
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