Why Current Online Win Rates Won't Persist

[FlFishOn]

The biggest is the capital requirement. You don't go from dirt poor to DSL fired puter and BR.

There are many cultures where poker as a career would be unthinkable. Think Utah.

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The biggest is the capital requirement. You don't go from dirt poor to DSL fired puter and BR.

There are many cultures where poker as a career would be unthinkable. Think Utah.

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There are people with capital willing to invest if need be. I saw a site aimed at staking USA citizens, how much cheaper would an Indian or Brazilian be to employ?

And fyi, computers and internet are not uncommon in south america.

[FlFishOn]

"And fyi, computers and internet are not uncommon in south america. "

As is the Catholic church. Mama won't let Jose grow up to be a gambler.

[SinCityGuy]

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Tons of suckers go to vegas to play blackjack and slots every year and lose. Yet they go back year after year.

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They also go for shows, meals, etc. Very few of them actually track how much they lose specifically to gambling. Many of them actually delude themselves into thinking they broke even or won a little bit. They can do this because all of their vacation expenses came out of the same pool of money.

Online, the losing player is faced with the prospect of having to refund his account. There is no way he can deny the cold reality that he is a loser, and many of them just quit at that point.

[eMarkM]

Tourney 4243060 on Stars to see these warriors battle it out for the final table. I'm in the other game with kfelly

[eMarkM]

That battle lasted only a few minutes as Kurn beat AAmazon rather promptly.

[scrapperdog]

This post is lame. How many times do we have to see the same post over and over? At least this one has a twist in that now people from 3rd world countries are gonna take poker over but still it is the same post that is posted here at least once every 2 weeks. Almost every person in this forum knows current win rates will not last forever, and every time the person that posts this is shocked they did not discover something new. This is like telling a person a wheel is round ... every 2 weeks.

What makes someone think they can turn an army of 3rd world factory workers into winning poker players? Only 8% of the people win as it is. And almost nobody wins when they first start playing. You do realize that they are gonna have to reload their accounts multiple times before they start winning, if they are in fact good enough to be in the 8% that can win. I dont think spending a years salary in an effort to see if you can be sucessful in an area that 92% of people fail is going to attract a ton of poor people.

[Petomane]

Like the man said, most people suck at poker.

I have a few friends who play at the B&M on a regular basis, but can't win online.

I'm not worried about my win rate. Being a consistent winner is more difficult than you think.

[MicroBob]

I see no reason to believe that players from 3rd world countries would be especially strong at poker.

My GF is from South America. In her country of Peru I just don't think it would be very realistic because there is not too much disposable money there. This shouldn't be a surprise.
My GF is a nurse in the U.S. and makes more money than her Dad who is a doctor in Peru.

Her family does have internet though (they IM each other all the time) as do many down there...so they could play if they wanted to I guess.
They also have a couple of casinos in Lima...and I know that a couple of her aunts or cousins or something like to go to one of them occasionally to play 3-card poker or caribbean stud or one of those types of games.

So perhaps there is some disposable income down there where it could actually happen.

I gave some of the free party and stars stuff (sihrts, jackets, hats) to my GF's Mom who passed it around to other family members. So I guess I'm doing my part to promote online-poker in South America!!

Obviously there are some people in some of the wealthier nations who have disposable income. I think Brazil and Argentina qualify. I have met players from both of those countries online before.


But I still don't see why bringing in players from other countries automatically means they won't suck as much as most everyone else does.

[Adam22]

honestly my favorite part of SSH is how [censored] long all of microbob's posts are. love it.