I lived with people who played poker for a living and to me it seemed worse than a normal job. If I’m doing it, it’s for fun. If you can make it work, more power to ya, I respect the shit out of it. I have gone to a casino three times. Once a dude who was hitting on me gave me $800 in chips right after I walked in, so I waited for him to use the bathroom m, cashed out and left. The other times were also on a drunken whim and I came out ahead despite being blackout drunk, I woke up with a hundred or so more than I left with each time. I just dont like the environment unless the times I was wasted and on a lot of coke. I’m around for a cheap semi ironic thrill the few times I show up.
So I payed my rent by counting cards for about six months two years ago. I can confirm that it was miserable. I was barely making more than a job at 7/11, the variance was killer, I had to sit there and breathe in other people’s cigarette smoke for hours and hours and hours… there’s a reason why the biggest success stories in card counting are the people who quit to teach courses on how to do it.
Looking back on it getting banned for counting was a good thing. Maybe my experience would have been better if I was with a team, but doing it by yourself is a slow, miserable grind. That said if I was planning a trip with friends or family I would take the time to knock the rust off my skills before the trip!
I played a shitload of board games with the poker pro roommates and what i still consider The Game of Games, Cosmic Encounter basically requires counting cards to be good at it. I wish there was an online version, no way in hell I could get my irl friends around to play enough to get even close to where I was aroind 2011. They were older hippies and the house was kind of an open tabletop place in the kitchen. It was kinda sick, people let themselves in and brought food booze or weed and in exchange 24 hour tabletop zone.
I keep trying to get my dnd playing work pal to try out an open table style. It’s so much more fun and way easier on the dm. Almost works more like a mmorpg.
There was an attempt at a hexbear Diplomacy game which I would consider the other Game of Games
I lived with people who played poker for a living and to me it seemed worse than a normal job. If I’m doing it, it’s for fun. If you can make it work, more power to ya, I respect the shit out of it. I have gone to a casino three times. Once a dude who was hitting on me gave me $800 in chips right after I walked in, so I waited for him to use the bathroom m, cashed out and left. The other times were also on a drunken whim and I came out ahead despite being blackout drunk, I woke up with a hundred or so more than I left with each time. I just dont like the environment unless the times I was wasted and on a lot of coke. I’m around for a cheap semi ironic thrill the few times I show up.
So I payed my rent by counting cards for about six months two years ago. I can confirm that it was miserable. I was barely making more than a job at 7/11, the variance was killer, I had to sit there and breathe in other people’s cigarette smoke for hours and hours and hours… there’s a reason why the biggest success stories in card counting are the people who quit to teach courses on how to do it.
Looking back on it getting banned for counting was a good thing. Maybe my experience would have been better if I was with a team, but doing it by yourself is a slow, miserable grind. That said if I was planning a trip with friends or family I would take the time to knock the rust off my skills before the trip!
I played a shitload of board games with the poker pro roommates and what i still consider The Game of Games, Cosmic Encounter basically requires counting cards to be good at it. I wish there was an online version, no way in hell I could get my irl friends around to play enough to get even close to where I was aroind 2011. They were older hippies and the house was kind of an open tabletop place in the kitchen. It was kinda sick, people let themselves in and brought food booze or weed and in exchange 24 hour tabletop zone.
I keep trying to get my dnd playing work pal to try out an open table style. It’s so much more fun and way easier on the dm. Almost works more like a mmorpg.
There was an attempt at a hexbear Diplomacy game which I would consider the other Game of Games