Woolygimp
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Bit of a slow learner eh?
If you know anything about twoplustwo, banning was a sort of hazing. Every now and then they'd take two of the most popular posters and have a survival "vote one off" type of thread and it created hilarious drama. I was selected and got voted off. No big deal, you just make a new account. There were posters with 30,000+ posts that would get banned as a joke.
Only reason to play tournaments these days is for fame, not money. First off, too much variance. Secondly, too much rake.Multiple wins in large field tournaments are a better assessment of real skill.
You have a 10% rake (higher now, esp. in WSOP tournaments). Sometimes the entrance fee is as high as 20%. Something like a $10,000+2,000 buyin tournament, that $2,000 is a rake.
Then you have a 10% state tax deducted directly from your winnings. That adds up to 20-30% along with your entry fee.
Then it puts you on the radar of the IRS, and you're expected to pay ~30% towards tax. So now you've just had 40-60% of your prize raked. You can't beat that amount of money taken from the prize pool over the long term, nobody can, unless it's a super, super soft field or you're Ivey.
Ivey is the only professional poker play me and my friends look up to. He's great and miles ahead of the rest. He's probably the only one, besides Elzera (And a couple others) that I wouldn't play against. I'd play Helmuth, Hansen, and especially Laak.
You obviously haven't played enough live poker to know that no one gives a flying fuck about bad beat stories.
Other poker players don't care about bad beat stories. This is a gaming forum, and everybody loves hearing about that $30k PLO bad beat because it's "special". Not often do you play against a whale that doesn't mind sticking it in with a pair of fours and no redraw for $15,000 against the NFD, nut wrap, pair of kings, and backdoor NFD, and then win with a running straight.
I'm practically retired right now. I would't be if I didn't know how to play. Several friends got into online poker with me, I was the only one who "made it". I transitioned to live back in 2007. I am good at both.