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What is your price?
Just been discussing this with a mate and thought I would throw it on here..
How much money would it take for you to never play poker again?
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All the best.
Rainman397.
P.S HAS ANYONE MENTIONED THE £2.20 @2.20 DEEPSTACK YET.
Great question.
Depends on a lot of things and obviously would be a much bigger figure if you are a pro. For those of us that play recreationally it probably depends on how you are running,
Difficult to put a price on the online friends you make through poker though, the Outlaws, the PLO8 crew, Tikay, oh hell make it a fiver and I'm gone.
I don't know what my figure is but there's certainly an amount that I think everyone should take for ethical reasons. tree fiddy most likely
of course the next question should be where's the money coming from? that would change things. If the answer is the sky then the above applies, and if it's from some rich guy then it depends whether he's given his consent
This thread turned out to be quite fascinating, with a divide between the serious guys, & the recreational players.
Mr Chiggy The Piggy wrote this.....
"Probably like £50k, poker is only getting less profitable anyway."
Which may well be fair comment, but I think it misses the point - & he's far from alone in his view - that a lot (the majority, by far) of Online poker players play for fun, & they know they have little hope of turning a profit. To them, it's a hobby, & hobbies cost money. Might be £5, £10 or £20 per week, but they are more than happy to spend that on something they very much enjoy. No different to going down the pub every night, or crown green bowling, or fishing or whatever. The facts - the % of poker players that make a profit - bear this out.
I actually know a good number of players who have a monthly Standing Order to deposit on poker sites. Typically, £20, £25, £30 or £50 per month. And when it's gone, often by, say, the 20th of the month, that's it, they stop playing until the 1st of the month when the next Standing Order goes in. And if they reach the month end & still have money on the site, that's all bonus. That is why traffic tapers off towards the end of the month (on this & every other site), & is boosted after "payday week".
Here's something to ponder, too.
I logged on at 6am this morning, & there was a £20 (TWENTY POUND) Freeroll running. It paid £5.59 to the winner, & the money went down to 13th place, who got £0.41. (Forty one PENCE).
And that 6am Freeroll, with £5.59 to the winner & 41p to 13th got 120 runners.
To many, that's laughable, but that's how poker works, people will log on at 6am to play a Freeroll that pays a fiver to the winner. It's not all about Team Serious, far from it.
When John Duthie won the Poker Million, he made that famous throwaway line when asked how he would spend that money. In typically laconic style, he said ...
"Oh I don't know, I'll probably buy a few houses".
The word "few" is key here, it says so much. Most of us spend our whole lives busting a gut to get the deposit on a house & pay the mortgage.
Buy a few houses
...and here's a little known fact about that famous Poker Million win by John Duthie, who was, later, to retire from being a TV Producer (Hollyoaks, Kavanagh etc) & set up the EPT.
It cost £6,000 to enter (sterling) which was a LOT of money in 2000.
It bore the name "Poker Million" as it guaranteed £1 million to the winner, unlike the Ladbroke reincarnation in later years which did no such thing.
So the top three Prize Money was......
WINNER - £1,000,000
2nd - £100,000
3rd - £50,000
Down in 9th place, Simon Trumper got £6,000 - his buy-in.
Imagine being Heads Up, with a millyball to first, & £100k to 2nd. Business, anyone? I'd bite their hand off. I think most would, though most would say not. Until it actually happened....
Anyone care to guess what the juice was on that £6,000 Buy-In? You'd be wrong. It was £30.