Post by seymourflops on Dec 4, 2020 1:34:21 GMT
In the words of the frontier saloon bum in Back to the Future III, what the hell kind of fun is that?
I've been reading some posts on Facebook pages about poker and there are a lot of micro-stakes players there. I noticed that when someone asked about making real money at the micros by multi-tabling, or moving up in stakes, the many of the responses were to the effect of "It's not about making more money, it's about being good."
One guy posted bragging - bragging - about making 8bb/hour at 10NL over 60 thousand hands. Sixty thousand hands and he made a whopping eighty centavos for every hundred of them. I ain't no math whiz, but I make that about $480. How long you figure it took him to play 60 thousands of hands? Let's say he played best case fifty hands per hour. That is twelve hundred hours which at eight hours per day would be 150 days. If he somehow was able to play ten tables at a time, that would be 15 days. Three work weeks to earn $480, by click-click-clicking on ten tables?
Well . . . ok. That's better than losing $480 in 120 playing hours. But damn.
Too each his own and I know lots of folks spend a lot of time on online games with no way to make money, but making money has always been a big part if not the main part of playing poker for me. If I had enough skill and talent to play ten tables with any kind of steady profit, I'd take my skills to the live tables where I would at least make minimum wage.
I'm not saying run out and play live right now. Frank's plan is a good way to go for a beginner. But being a "micro-grinder" just to brag about your bb/hr on Facebook? Seems like a lot of effort. I was really tempted to reply that I made 9 BB/hr just to get on his nerves, but I'm way to nice a guy to do that.
