Poker Skill Reaching a Climax | On Line Poker
These last few months and in fact the last few years, poker websites, poker statistics and poker strategy guides have been popping up all over the place. As a result of this the overall poker skill is soaring to the heavens, poker heavens. Or maybe hell, poker hell. Because really, who likes it when everyone around them wins? No room for your personal glory and especially, no room for you winning any money! A few days ago I tried my luck at some very low stakes tables on Party Poker because I got some free money. I thought it would easy, winning some cents while playing quite loose and aggressive. But the truth was that I lost 10 buyins (all for the very large amount of $2) in split seconds!
I pondered a bit after that, and came to the conclusion that it would be very difficult to earn any money on the tables, even if you were in fact, better than the rest. Since 5% of your profit gets “stolen” by the house, you will need to be at least 5% better than the rest to be able to play without losing money. In the early days of on line poker, this was quite easy. There were a lot of times where you had a 20% edge on your opponent or even more. You had crazy donks that played 95% of their hands and always drawed to their gut shot straights or runner runner flushes while at the same time they held on to their underpair 22 hand while you had a royal flush. Well, I got bad news for all you new poker players out there, those times are over.
Best of luck,
Adam Breit