My failure as a poker pro (very long)

[TimM]

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TimM... do you think if you had come across online poker before your stock experience it would have helped?

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I'm not sure. Maybe I wouldn't have been as careful when I started poker if it were not for the stock market losses. Certainly I would have had more money to risk.

I guess the big difference between poker and the stock market is that with online poker you can play super low limits until you know you can win, then move up. It's hard to do that in the stock market. Commissions kill you if you try to play too small, though now you can get a cheap per-share broker like Interactive Brokers. Even so, you still can't play for pennies.

I just really wanted to find some way to make extra income that had the potential to even replace my job. If I were able to do that by trading, I never would have gotten into poker. In fact I "discovered" online poker on a trading message board. If poker came first, and I reached the same point as now, I might never have tried stock trading.