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View Poll Results: Do you want nothing to do with 50 dollar bills?
zomg keep those things as far away from me as possible 31 8.07%
who cares, they're just as good as 2 20's and a 10 353 91.93%
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:16 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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The kind of people who make the 250k are either

a) people who run good in the 1kNL+ games
b) people with redargoe'esque work ethic in 3/6 through 10/20
c) people who grind hard in the HU games, 2/4 through 5/10
d) people with a tournament score(s)

obviously im in category d

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fyp

anyone winning 2ptbb+ at 5/10 is easily clearing $250k in a year. and people beating 10/20nl are doing it as well.

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625,000 is a [censored]-ton of hands.

In fact, here's a dumb prop-bet-type Q that might infuse this old topic with a little new life:

Which # is greater:
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A) The number of online cash game players who will clear $1,000,000 in 2007 (cash games only, no donkaments), or
B) The number of players who will play more than 1,000,000 cash game hands this year.
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I say A) in a rout.
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:24 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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A) The number of online cash game players who will clear $1,000,000 in 2007 (cash games only, no donkaments), or
B) The number of players who will play more than 1,000,000 cash game hands this year.[/b]</font>

I say A) in a rout.

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B and it's not even close. There's a shitton of low limit grinders who play more than 80K hands a month, especially at full ring.
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:32 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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i won't.

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me either. sadly i was halfway there in march.
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:01 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing poker?

There's absolutely no chance it's less than 100. There are probably more than 2 dozen players that semi-regularly play in games where they can swing +/- 250k in a single session. I think it's probably around 1000 for strictly cash players, and 2000+ if tournaments are included.
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:26 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

I've already cleared over $250K JUST at 2/4 and 3/6 NL full ring. That's not counting my 6 max play or donkaments or live play (and I'm up in all ldo)

I think the guys saying you "must play 5/10+ or have insane work ethic" are just plain wrong.
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:45 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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<font color="blue">
A) The number of online cash game players who will clear $1,000,000 in 2007 (cash games only, no donkaments), or
B) The number of players who will play more than 1,000,000 cash game hands this year.[/b]</font>

I say A) in a rout.

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B and it's not even close. There's a shitton of low limit grinders who play more than 80K hands a month, especially at full ring.

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Really? I think I disagree, or at least I think it's closer than you make it out to be. 2,800 hands / day every single day of the year is a G-R-I-N-D. When I was grinding out some Party Points thing that required a ton of hands a few years back, I struggled to average 500 hands / hour over the course of a playing day. (granted I'm anal about table selection.) 6 hours / day of that every single day of the year is an absolute ton, and would take a lot of mental fortitude. I think the number for A) is between 100 and 200. If the number for B) is larger than that, I don't think it's by a whole lot...
(how many hands -- approx -- does it take to achieve supernova at Stars?...that might give us a clue)
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Old 11-28-2007, 01:53 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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<font color="blue">
A) The number of online cash game players who will clear $1,000,000 in 2007 (cash games only, no donkaments), or
B) The number of players who will play more than 1,000,000 cash game hands this year.</font>

I say A) in a rout.

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B and it's not even close. There's a shitton of low limit grinders who play more than 80K hands a month, especially at full ring.

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Really? I think I disagree, or at least I think it's closer than you make it out to be. 2,800 hands / day every single day of the year is a G-R-I-N-D. When I was grinding out some Party Points thing that required a ton of hands a few years back, I struggled to average 500 hands / hour over the course of a playing day. (granted I'm anal about table selection.) 6 hours / day of that every single day of the year is an absolute ton, and would take a lot of mental fortitude. I think the number for A) is between 100 and 200. If the number for B) is larger than that, I don't think it's by a whole lot...
(how many hands -- approx -- does it take to achieve supernova at Stars?...that might give us a clue)

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12-tabling low limits for 30-40 hours a week is a ton of hands. There's a ton of people who do just that.

I'm not one of them, but I play with them on a regular basis.
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Old 11-28-2007, 02:09 AM
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2,800 hands / day every single day of the year is like 2 hrs of playing

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FYP.

SABR42 is right. There are a few 50NL regs who easily clear 150K hands/month. Table selection down here is pretty easy too.
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Old 11-28-2007, 02:16 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

1400 hands / hr??!
guess i was way out of my element.

I don't care to do the math, but what does a winning 50NL regular who plays 150,000 hands / month make in such a month?

EDIT: alright, even allowing for a few of these ridiculous grinders, you still think the number of players who will clear 1M hands this year is several hundred or more?
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Old 11-28-2007, 02:18 AM
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Default Re: How many people will make more than $250,000 this year playing pok

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I don't care to do the math, but what does a winning 50NL regular who plays 150,000 hands / month make in such a month?

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Probably not too much, or else they would have moved up...

But there are regs who stay at 100 or 200NL and don't move up.
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