Re:Making $60k a month from a podcast on software engineering
by alaskamiller on Monday March 12, 2018 @07:06PM
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At high level, maybe. But poker is really about process and discipline. Playing poker to create income is a grind.
You sit there for up to 5 hours and do math on odds and make decisions, hand after hand. Every now and then you utilize bluffing or other techniques to bully to win a pot. Then you keep stacking to get a bank roll going so you can get to the next table, the next tier.
The college aged poker kids optimize for it like any engineer. They have spreadsheets tracking EV on time, earnings per hour.
But if you have the discipline and dedication to go through that for a year or so, then yeah, you can sit there and code to problem solve or sit there and go through the hundreds of decisions needed to operate a business.
Re:Making $60k a month from a podcast on software engineering
by ahtu123 on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:42AM
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Absolutely right. I was terrible at online poker since I wanted to have fun playing it. You can't bluff someone who knows the math in the long run. You'll lose all your money.
You sit there for up to 5 hours and do math on odds and make decisions, hand after hand. Every now and then you utilize bluffing or other techniques to bully to win a pot. Then you keep stacking to get a bank roll going so you can get to the next table, the next tier.
The college aged poker kids optimize for it like any engineer. They have spreadsheets tracking EV on time, earnings per hour.
But if you have the discipline and dedication to go through that for a year or so, then yeah, you can sit there and code to problem solve or sit there and go through the hundreds of decisions needed to operate a business.