EE Chats May

you tell me $50k a year is 'worth it' after playing 50,000 games for 8 hours a day

tell me and say it as if you mean it after the tax-man comes along and takes his slice out of that $50k haul too (equivalent to what, 15,000 games of your life?)

you could do a lot of other jobs that would pay that pretty-average salary, and enjoy a much better lifestyle

like i said: essentially he's doing the same thing that impoverished chinese wage-slaves get paid to do for world of warcraft. they sit and farm the same monotonous activity all day, which, while seeming 'fun' (i.e. playing a game), ends up being a really tedious and low-paying (on average) profession. honestly i'd rather just pull a 9-5 at the office and coast along than have to 'farm' 15 poker games for hours a day just to pay my grocery bills.

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2010-05-26 15:07:01

#13657

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6910|67.222.138.85

2010-05-26 15:12:20

#13658

phishsux: +131|5335

Uzique wrote:
baggs wrote:
Uzique wrote:

ravenholdt-eu

see you soon xx
was this | | close earlier.

4realz.
you're just delaying the inevitable

think of all that wasted time, spent being bored, that all-pervasive feeling of ennui. . .

you coulda been having eze fun

suckaaaa

@ the people suggesting ig hire a 'real estate broker'.... nigga, he's made $30,000 bucks in EIGHT THOUSAND games of poker. chinese MMORPG farmers have a better hourly rate than that. ig, bro, you have a pretty fucking chill lifestyle right now but what's the deal-io with acting like a russian steal magnate. you're basically grinding warcraft gold.

say ive played 130 days so far this year with an avg of 6 hrs a day. thats 780 hrs. the graph i posted doesnt include rakeback and bonuses, which is like another $7k. 37k/780= $47/hr

and i actually like my job

haters gonna hate

2010-05-26 15:14:42

#13659

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6673

hey man, im not hating.

i said i think you've got a pretty decent lifestyle.

my post (which was just my opinion - no playa h8) was more about how people seem to exalt your profession to some status of deserved-admiration. shit, at the end of the day you're just throwin' rocks and shufflin' cards in online internet games. even people like FM talk about it as if it's some russian chess-master shit, or some real MAKIN' CHEESE get-rich scheme. you're making an average salary doing something that some would find okay/fun/a productive use of time, and others... not.

just clearin' that up.

oh and

say ive played 130 days so far this year with an avg of 6 hrs a day. thats 780 hrs. the graph i posted doesnt include rakeback and bonuses, which is like another $7k. 37k/780= $47/hr

tax it. remove deductibles. remove the shitty-logic of an 'average hourly rate' - you ain't living the lifestyle of someone that makes $47/hr bro. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. sometimes you're on a streak, sometimes you're in the dumps. you're not dining at the ritz every night because your short 6 hours of work that day netted you a safe, reliable $300 cash. as i said, it's a lifestyle choice. as long as you're having fun.

Last edited by Uzique (2010-05-26 15:17:53)

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2010-05-26 15:16:18

#13660

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6910|67.222.138.85

uh, no, poker is not chess

2010-05-26 15:17:18

#13661

mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|6858

Wonder if War Man could make a living playing Risk online.

2010-05-26 15:17:32

#13662

phishsux: +131|5335

pretty sure 50 bucks an hr is more than avg, esp in this economy. if i played 40hrs/week for a year, thatd be 6 figz my nig

2010-05-26 15:19:36

#13663

phishsux: +131|5335

and shit, i could even bink a huge tourney for like 100k on any given day

2010-05-26 15:19:47

#13664

Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6692|Gogledd Cymru

suck my dick while I fuck that ass

2010-05-26 15:20:28

#13665

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6673

phishsux wrote:
pretty sure 50 bucks an hr is more than avg, esp in this economy. if i played 40hrs/week for a year, thatd be 6 figz my nig

read my last edit.

you aint making 6 figs in any legal sense.

and you're forecasting those figures on nothingness. you're treating your poker-graph like a dumb banker treated hedge funds. so over time in an aggregate, cumulative sense you're 'making money'. but like i said you ain't living the lifestyle of a 6-figure hustlaaa. you win some and you lose some on a daily basis and that keeps your practical lifestyle curbed.

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2010-05-26 15:21:46