I'm going to train homeless people to make a living playing poker

[Bakes]

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I'm going to put together a team of homeless dudes and show them my playbook i put together off my own beats

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Can I ask what your lesson plan might be?

pop quiz -
1. .25/.50 NLH 6max 100bb Stacks
you raise 3.5bb on button w/ A9s big blind calls, flop K74 rainbow. big blind checks what do you do?

A.Check
B.Continuation Bet
C.Smoke Crack Rock
D.All-In

You could weed out alot of the bad students if they answer A or C

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So you narrowed it down to B or D, did you flip a coin to decide?

[Dudd]

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That's the most retarded idea I ve ever heard about.

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you might not say that if you looked up from your bed tonight and saw the inside of a cardboard box

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We're not saying it's a bad deal for the homeless.

[snowbank]

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I don't see any flaws in this plan.

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Then you definitely won't be much help, because we are working out some kinks as we speak.

[The Velour Fog]

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lmao

[ghostface]

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I posted in ssnl but thought it'd get more responses here

I thought of doing this a while ago, and maybe after summer I will put this plan into action. I'm going to put together a team of homeless dudes and show them my playbook i put together off my own beats. Not the homeless people who could be working but aren't, but the guys who seriously have had some bad luck/could use a break.

One time last year I just got done meeting someone for lunch. I walked out to my car and was getting in and someone rode up to me on their bike as I was closing my door. I rolled down my window and he asked if I could share any money at all. There was something real convincing about this guy for some reason. Like he really did need it. He told me he'd been riding around all day trying to be able to afford a room for him and his wife to stay for the night. You could tell he had like $20 in quarters in his pockets cause dude was jingling like crazy. We talked for a minute, and he asked if I could even just spare a little change, he'd appreciate it. I asked how close he had gotten so far on the day for the room. He said he was $8 away. I grabbed $8 and gave it to him. This guy was ecstatic! He couldn't believe I had given him $8. It was like the lottery to him. I've never met someone more grateful in my life for something. For some reason I just really believed this guy could use a break, and I felt great that day that I was able to help him out.

That was just one day though. Who knows, the next day maybe he had to ride his bike all around town again trying to afford food/shelter. If tomorrow it's same [censored] different day, I didn't really help him, I just prolonged his situation.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a liftime. But what if I took a bunch of guys like that and showed them how to provide for themselves. Poker is so easy that there's still soooooo much free money at the lower levels that I think some smart homeless dudes could be tearin [censored] up. I mean, think about it. A lot of people need like $3,000/month to live. Homeless people don't need anything near that. If they could learn to make even just $1,000/month playing poker it would change their lives forever. That would be soooo easy to teach someone with half a brain how to make a grand or two a month. You could make that playing the penny stakes. It would seriously change their lives. I would get a bunch of guys seriously in bad situations, and try and change their life.

So.................

thoughts on this idea?

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teach me then

[Nielsio]

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oh i get it! really brilliant when you think about it...


...the homeless people can make a good living playin poker from the comfort of their own home!

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zomg lol

[snowbank]

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yah cause im sure homeless guys will have no problem avoiding gambling addiction and thinking/behaving rationally at all times

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it's not like i'm going to pick anybody off the street. they will be hand picked for success

[WutRUTryin2Hit]

OHHHH, you are only picking the BEST of the homeless hobos. Forget anything anyone here said then, great plan.

Seriously dude, there are TONS of guys who have been playing for years and are great players who still can't take more than a few sick beats in a session without going on total monkey tilt. Your plan is so flawed, if you are a pro poker player like your profile says, you should have enough logical skills to figure out that this is a terrible idea.

[MyTurn2Raise]

this idea is pretty bad....it's destined to fail miserably

[tagtastic]

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yah cause im sure homeless guys will have no problem avoiding gambling addiction and thinking/behaving rationally at all times

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it's not like i'm going to pick anybody off the street. they will be hand picked for success

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The percent of homeless people who are really decent, smart people who are homeless entirely due to crazy circumstances and not self-destructive behavior they would almost certainly repeat if given a second chance = <1%.

The people who become homeless genuinely due to terrible circumstances find a way out. They go stay with friends of family until they get back on their feet. Or they go to one of several shelters in almost every city that puts out an incredible amount of time, effort and money to help these kinda people help themselves.

Imagine if tomorrow you were suddenly on the street and totally broke for some reason, wouldn't you have a zillion ideas on how to start getting your life back, even from the very worst of situations (eg: zero help from friends or family)? Drugs and/or mental illness keep the homeless that way, not society.