Poker and Lifestyle

Shades & Shuffles | Editor
Sep 9, 2020
3 min read

Updated: Jan 17, 2023

Are you a fan of the poker world or fascinated by the stories of making money overnight?

Well, it isn't as easy as it seems. they didn't go lucky or they had some magic tricks.

Behind every success story, there is hard work, dedication, struggle, and sleepless nights of studies that most of us don't know. Every successful or winning poker player spends hours every day studying poker. They spend hours finding their leaks and understanding the game and their opponents better. That's why only a few poker players become winning poker players over a long period. More than that every new poker player should know that, Study shows that "ONLY 5% - 10% OF POKER PLAYER MAKES MONEY IN THE LONG RUN"

That means, Like any other sport, poker requires study, hard work, dedication, and patience to be master at it and to be a WINNING PLAYER. And Unlike any other sport, a poker player has to be good at understanding people and their behavior and can read people's expressions and gameplay to adjust their gameplay accordingly.

It is strongly advised that all new players understand the games and learn and spend some time may be a few months with freerolls or play money chips before they start playing the real money games.

We don't want to discourage you, But we want you to have a proper and clear picture of the game before you join. You might have heard success stories many times but you don't know that many poker players lose most of the time and some go bankrupt too.

Poker is a beautiful and skillful sport like any other sport if played responsibly and it requires hard work, consistency, discipline, and much more effort to be a successful poker player.

Playing poker will indeed give you flexibility and freedom in your working hours and you will be your boss, but you will have to give more time in poker than your regular job and it will impact your mental health and your sleeping cycle. You will have lesser time for your family, friends, and social events. Live poker is not frequently played everywhere in India and you will have to move to other places to play regularly. Thanks to online poker those who can't move or visit other states frequently to play poker. Multiple poker sites offer good action day and night. But online poker could be stressful and unhealthy as you will be sitting on a chair clicking buttons for hours and playing alone. you can't see your opponents and have to be dependent on quantity rather than quality in online poker. What I mean by "quantity over quality" is that you won't be able to see your opponents and their reactions in online poker, so your decision will be based on your hand strengths and the statistics most of the time. So, you have to play a huge number of hands to check the statistics of players and to beat the variance which is much higher in online poker than in live poker. Maybe because the hands played per hour are also much higher than live poker or maybe because the software is made in such a way as to provide maximum action to players and maximum rakes for businesses. so, in online poker, you have to play a huge number of hands to beat variance and to be profitable after Rake.