The Online Poker Dream

This is a guest post by Gary from 2milliondollarbills [... the site has been discontinued]. Gary is on a quest towards $2 million dollars. He also writes at his blog about his favourite Scottish recipes.

The Online Poker Dream and the Path to Financial Freedom

The online poker bug has firmly taking hold of millions of people all around the world; it has truly become a global game. Some people play purely for fun, others to make a little bit of extra money, some even play with the dream of becoming good enough to be able to give up the day job.

I personally feel that online poker offers us all the potential to become financially free. What’s wrong with having the dream that one day, you can become good enough to make a full time living from playing online poker. If you want something badly enough and are prepared to work hard enough, you can make the dream become a reality.

For many people, it will sadly never be more than just an unachievable dream. I suppose that’s just the way of the world, not everyone has the correct mindset, to learn what is required to become a winning poker player, or to take it on to the next level, where you are a professional online poker player.

There are literally thousands of people making full time livings from playing online poker and that is no exaggeration, but there are also thousands upon thousand of people that are constantly losing. Some are even going broke and losing their cars and homes. Live poker playing legends such as Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Scotty Nguyen have all at some point in their careers, ended up broke on more than one occasion, yet they used it as learning experiences which helped to make them great poker players. Unfortunately too many online poker players don’t seem to be capable of learning form past mistakes and experiences, they just keep on losing and losing.

If you want to become a winning online poker player and get on the path to financial freedom, you have to become like a sponge and starting soaking up as much information as possible, every time you play, you have to train almost like a professional athlete does. You have to spend time training, reading as much books as you can, learning about odds, analyse your winning hands and losing hands, how could you have done things differently and of course you have to be willing to play for between 8-14 hours a day to gain the experience that will make you a better player and ultimately a winning player.

As part of my dream to make 2 million dollar bills, poker is very much part of my money making plans. I may be a long way off from making serious money by playing poker, but I’m I have finally learned how to win more than I lose. I just wish I could find the time to take it on to the next level and play for more than 10 or 12 hours a week. I have other interests, which I also enjoy being involved in, but such is life I suppose.

For me the online poker dream is very much alive, I have learned from my mistakes and am finally on the path to financial freedom. Read more

The Only Bounty Tournament We Know At Doylesroom

This Wednesday is the Bounty Tournament day at Doylesroom. Every wednesday night, Doyle Brunson participates in this tournament and offered himself as the Bounty. At least, most of the time. A bounty on him is $500 and is a fair share among hundreds of poker players that joined this tournament as always.

It is easy to find where Doyle Brunson is sitting as he goes by the screen name Tex_Dolly. With this, everyone can try to add him as a buddy from the poker software, but it was rumored that he won't approve to be your buddy.

There is also a host that makes this Bounty Tournament entertaining and more lively. The suspense part of this Bounty Tournament is seeing who gets the Bounty. Most of the time anyway.

Once again, knockout 3 bounties, you get $25,000. Kockout 2 bounties, you get $5,000. Knockout 1 bounty, you get $500. DoylesRoom Bounty Tournament starts May 21, this Wednesday at 9:30pm ET. Right now it is about 20hrs away. Read more

Work Poker. Live Poker. Play Poker

Not quite, not yet. But it is a possibility. Sometimes it is a mystery to think about it. I don't really know if it makes sense if one would be so devoted of his time to making money instead of spending time with their loved ones.

Come what may, why would anyone consider being their own boss? It is one of the most hardest job. Seriously, isn't it much better being an employee and getting a fixed salary month to month. The tasks of being your own boss is one of a totally different playing field. It is beyond desk work or any other kind of technical job being schooled to you.

On top of that, sometimes after passing on the experiences to those you employed, they simply just run away. Talking about no return of investments there.

Well, poker on the other hand is unique. It can be seen as a business. It is also a risky business. No employee to hire. No costs on having offices locally or worldwide. The cost is yourself and the investments you made for yourself. But every cents you put into the game, there are chances you might not get it back.

Having said that, there is no time boundaries for when to play poker. It can be somewhere in between Eastern Standard Times, EST, GMT, BST or Anytime. When it is time to open business, Anytime suffice. Playing poker is like being a time traveller, only thing is we can be physically here but our entity is somewhere else in a different time.

How much more can you ask for? Being that good, anyone can join. Not exactly that there is an age limit either. Above 18yrs is quite mandatory though, at least we know you have reached puberty. So when do you want to start? Read more

A Billionth Poker Hands For Celebration

Not exactly a billionth reasons to get you excited about but for Ladbrokespoker it is another milestone achieved. Coming soon, their random card generator will be recording over a billion hands. A billion poker hands is just this many hands, 1,000,000,000 hands. That is an additional two 'zeroes' to a million.

For only just that reason, Ladbrokespoker will be holding a Billionth Hand Freeroll to mark the occasion. Having handed out so many hands is no easy matter. When was the last time you played up to 10,000 hands? And how long did it takes you? It will certainly take you some time.

Just as any good parties are reserved for the invited, Ladbrokes is opening up the invitation for their Billionth Hand Freeroll to players earning 50 Player Points on the day the Billionth hand was reached.

The prizes Ladbrokespoker is offering are :

1. 20, $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Package and
2. 200, $109 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Daily Final seats.

These prizes are given away just like that and of course if you love poker and do nothing but live, breath, eat and talks poker, it is about damn time to make your move. Read more

A Rake Race To WSOP In VIP Style

A little bit of promotion towards the World Series of Poker events can help bring more people to Vegas. It will be something that gets more attention as time goes by. Regular online poker players will have more chances and less reasons not to get there.

With so many promotions everywhere, Ladbrokes is having its own race. Play any cash game tables either Hold’em or Omaha to rake in your way to WSOP. Every cents and dollars of rake you contribute will earn points. Top 100 players of the week from three different stakes levels will get to play WSOP VIP Freezeout. That's 300 entrants.

The WSOP VIP Freezeout has an added $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP Package. Winner gets to go Vegas with Ladbrokes Team players. You got to love poker and play lots and lots of poker. Qualifying with this will be easy and comes naturally.

In addition to this, everyone will also be receiving a 30% rakeback. The WSOP VIP Weekly Rake Races will be held on the following dates:

# Monday 31st March to Sunday 6th April
# Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April
# Monday 14th to Sunday 20th April
# Monday 21st to Sunday 27th April
# Monday 28th April to Sunday 4th May
# Monday 5th May to Sunday 11th May
# Monday 12th May to Sunday 18th May
# Monday 19th May to Sunday 25th May
# Monday 26th May to Sunday 1st June
# Monday 2nd June to Sunday 8th June
# Monday 9th June – Sunday 15th June
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