When does poker get hard?

[THATWACOKID]

i didn't think it was ever going to get hard until i played the following hand last night:

10/20 full

mp raises to 80, i call in the co with 55. the rest fold.

we have no history worth noting.

flop comes K 7 4 r

he checks i bet 125 he calls

turn 3

he checks i bet 400 he calls

river 2

he checks i push for my last 1300

he calls with 10-10.

out
played

this hand has me emotionally scard. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

when you make it hard for yourself.

[kagame]

i love that people will call here with no history, makes me feel great about poker for now and the long run, he games wont be hard for years and years with these donkeys passing money around

[flawless_victory]

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i love that people will call here with no history, makes me feel great about poker for now and the long run, he games wont be hard for years and years with these donkeys passing money around

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poor kagame... you are awful.

[THATWACOKID]

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poor kagame... you are awful.

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more awfully awful than me?

[flawless_victory]

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poor kagame... you are awful.

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more awfully awful than me?

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if you are who i think you are on party, i played some 6max with you last week and i thought you played well.

BTW/ you did get totally PWNED in that hand u posted, haha. o well, it happens.

I think it gets hard when you are not a winning player at a given limit. That is different for everyone, but I personally had trouble with 25/50 NL and higher, but I seem not to have much trouble overall below that limit.

[Niwa]

its only as hard as you make it.

[italianstang]

I think this is not a stupid question. Assuming we are just talking about online there is a curve. 5 cent/10 cent no limit is a strange game filled with beginners, terrible players and people who only have a few bucks left in their account and play strangely. At 50NL you still don't need to bluff AT ALL to be a very successful player because getting paid off is so easy. I think at each increment new wrinkles get tossed in. There seems to be a lot of dogshit play at the higher levels too so who knows.

It isn't a stupid question, the problem with it is that there is no correct answer.

It is player dependent. For me I don't think it will ever be hard. For others, they can't beat NL 100.

A better question might be, how does the game change as I move up limits.