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Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by Gugel

Gugel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:43:16 +0000

@Jason

Let’s say you were trying to build a search engine. Do you think it would be easier / more profitable to break into that industry now or in 1998?

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by Jason

Jason — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:19:58 +0000

If you didn’t start playing before 2006, now’s not the time? Why, because beating up on easier competition is the path to success? Without that valuable experience, it’s going to be a tough road to hoe? Or are you saying that everyone that was playing before 2006 are millionaires now, so they’re set for life? What exactly is the logic here?

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by Joe

Joe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:10:44 +0000

I think you may be right on about the maturity of the poker industry. However, I am not sure it translates into timing for an individual starting to play. With the exception of there being less inexperienced players at the tables than there was a few years ago when they were coming in droves, I don’t think the number of players in the industry has any affect on the success of an individual player.

If you are correct that the poker industry has reached maturity I think it is poor time to open a card room or an internet poker site. The reason is when the market is growing you can gain market share without having to steal customers (or players in the case of poker rooms) from other businesses. After maturity of a market entry is difficult because there are few new customers so the only way to grow is by stealing customers from competitors who are already established.

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by The Poker Meister

The Poker Meister — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:13:45 +0000

Good, informative post, as always! Nice writeup, Gugel!

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by Gugel

Gugel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:36:58 +0000

@jimsbets
You make a good point, but you also have to consider that it still takes an extraordinary amount of work to become even a breakeven player.

If the training sites didn’t exist, a -3PTBB loser would still become a breakeven player because he has the dedication and the competition would be softer. Now that the training sites DO exist, a -3PTBB loser has better resources available to help him improve, but the competition is tougher. Either way, it still comes down to his dedication, talent, etc.

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by jimsbets

jimsbets — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:06:37 +0000

if it helps clarify, think how much easier it would be to coach someone from -3ptbb loser to breakeven than it would be to coach them from a 3ptbb winner to a 6ptbb winner.

Comment on The Poker Life Cycle by jimsbets

jimsbets — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:59:55 +0000

Regarding the online training sites, it doesnt balance out. Turning an idiot into a breakeven player hurts your winrate more than the same amount of training would help your winrate. Its easier to correct their huge mistakes than your smaller ones and those huge corrections make more of a difference.

Comment on Is Shoving the River the Best Play? by jamarcus

jamarcus — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:40:54 +0000

lol @ J being a “really good card to bluff.”

Comment on Using PokerTableRatings With FullTilt by PrivacyInvasion

PrivacyInvasion — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:02:24 +0000

No Poker Website should be spying on it’s user’s surfing habits.

It’s clear Full Tilt has less integrity than it’s players when you hear this crap is going on. PokerStars once tracked websites visited as well but stopped this spying because their customers were disgusted when they found out about it.

Full Tilt customers need to express their disgust.

It constantly amazes me how much freedom people are willing to give up for a little security. Hitler set the parliament building on fire, blamed the communists and declared martial law with the populations consent.

It’s no different with 9/11 and terrorists. Freedoms are increasingly disappearing…

Comment on Is Shoving the River the Best Play? by Gugel

Gugel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:27:19 +0000

I checked the river. Villain had ATo.