Re:Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
by alasdair_ on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:41AM
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While I’m sure there are live players that earn more than club bouncer levels of money, the only way to do this that I know of is to have access to really big games on an almost daily basis.
At peak covid, all the games dried up and even the pros went slumming. I personally saw Phil Ivey at a 2/5 game (!) at the Aria on a random Monday because that was the only game going and he hadn’t had any live practice in quite a long time.
Playing poker professionally is not a retirement, and no one really playing poker for income is addicted, I can assure you (at least not for long).
These days, playing live is the only way to get an edge (correct me? Been a while), and that would be a boring, nauseating job, right around the pay scale and routine of “club bouncer” if you’re good.
I played poker for my sole income for three years after college, traveling the world playing online. It was occasionally a lot of fun, morally painful, so stressful and not very well compensated. I would be rich now if I’d gone straight into programming instead of spending my 20s “avoiding work” by working my ass off to monetize my hobbies.