If they re-legalize online poker, I would gladly look forward to taking all of your money. Been playing professional poker since I was 16, and averaged roughly $250/hr throughout my entire online poker stint (used PokerTracker and that's over several million hands)...until the FBI shut that shit down. Now I have to settle with making $80-100 playing live.
Had a $300k house paid off by the time I was 23, a $60k BMW, and so forth. Now i've kind of gotten burned out, I don't have any real goals anymore. Money is money.
One problem with online poker is that we professionals have a huge advantage over you casuals. We use programs that keep track of every hand played. We then combine our databases, so that we have hundreds of millions of hands (including every hand you've specifically played).
When we sat down at a table with someone we had never played before, we would know your pre-flop raise percentage, the amount of times you continuation bet, the amount of times you bet the turn, how often you showdowned a hand, how often you won a hand at showdown, and up to 20 other stats.
A combination of those stats would show exactly what type of player you were. Loose-aggressive, passive-aggressive, tight-aggressive, aggro, donk, etc. Hopelessly outmatched from the get-go.
Basically, someone I have never played with before could sit down at a table with me and I would know more about how they played than themselves.
People were also well on their way to creating bots that could crush games. Last I knew they were profitable at $1/2 and up but they were making them better, and better and given enough time could probably create bots that would beat even the highest stakes.
Saw a picture of a guy with 4 racks per wall, covering an entire room, and on each were nothing but PC towers. Probably 300+ or so, each of them running bots on 8-16 tables.
