Is Online Poker Profitable?

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The percentage of online poker players who profit varies depending on the source, but is generally very low. Some say that only about 5% of online poker players are winners, while others say that only 32% of players achieve a positive result after rake is deducted.

Some say that the outcomes of online poker games are mostly determined by chance. In addition ever evolving scammers, analytical software and bots are common in the online poker community worldwide.

When you do the math. The prospects for earning substantial income consistently with online poker is bleak at best. Low stakes play will yield low pay, no matter how well you play. High stakes is where all the potential is for yielding big payoffs…but the risk is high to lose big money too. The reality is, lucky is good.

For those who very good, the better, best players, and that have good bankroll management, and that table, game, tournament select well, and choose good online poker sites, play at the lower stakes, etc, usually profit over the long term.

There are tables, games, tournaments, sites, stakes, etc, that are filled with the better, best, sharks, pros, etc players. Those are not good places to play for those who want to profit.

Ignition Poker still has some of the softest, easiest tables, games, tournaments, stakes, fields.

The other thing to keep in mind is that more and more players are better, study, get coaching, etc. So in order to beat that, one will have likewise study, get coaching, do a better job of that then competition, and plug leaks, and apply all the studying, book learning, video knowledge, coaching, etc, correctly, more correctly then competition.

To those who do that, online poker is still profitable over the long term.

Yes luck, variance still factors in, but over the very long term, skill wins out in the end.

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