Comments on: About How Much Does The Average Person Make Playing Poker Online?

By: Gambling

Gambling — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:33:31 +0000

It only depends on your skill. If you are good you will make lots of money, if no you will lose lots of money.

By: Solarius Azurus

Solarius Azurus — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:50:13 +0000

matey, you’re better off with a proper job. poker is quite “iffy” and you can lose big time if you’re not careful. it’s based on chance and the odds aren’t really in your favor.

By: vandelay industries

vandelay industries — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:36:22 +0000

you have to remember that poker is played against others. So for every million dollars won, there is a million lost. So the average would be zero…technically it is less than zero because the site will take a small amount out of each hand

By: Devin The Legend

Devin The Legend — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:02:45 +0000

Online poker doesn’t make money off of losers. When you lose money at online poker, it goes to the person you lost it too. Poker sites just take a rake or a tourney fee. You don’t play against the house, and the house doesn’t care if you win or lose, because they make money either way.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:27:08 +0000

As others have said, the AVERAGE person LOSES due to the site taking out “rake”. Really good players, however, can make a decent amount of money playing online. It depends on how good your co-worker is. I’ve made roughly $10k since 2005…but it’s not enough to replace my day job, and I am definitely in the minority of people who has made money playing online poker.

By: whodeyfl

whodeyfl — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:44:45 +0000

Some good answers, and like LegFu says get her screenname(s) and which sites, go to sharkscope and you’ll see if she’s telling the truth. There are a helluva lot more losers than winners, a lot of online players i know keep a running tally of their wins but fail to subtract all of their losses when bragging about how good they are.

By: TheDover

TheDover — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:40:14 +0000

I can only speak about tournament poker, including SNG games and not ring or cash games. Most tournaments cost about a 10% fee to enter, so you pay $5.50 to enter a tournament and only $5.00 goes to the pot. And tournaments usually only pay about the top 10-15% of the players.
Common estimates put the number of winning online poker tournament players at about 15%. With the 10% making a breakeven to decent amount, the top 4% making a good amount and the top 1% making an obscene amount. More importantly, this also means that 85% of people who try online poker end up losing money.
Here is a site (free to join) that can let you see some of the statistics for online poker highstakes winners. http://www.highstakesdb.com/forum/result…
Good luck!

By: PGNX

PGNX — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:25:54 +0000

Since you’re playing poker against the other players + the rake, there is definately more losers than there are winners.
Of the winners, only a very small percentage would be big winners.
Also, anyone that actually makes a lot of money at poker for a living usually doesn’t brag about it to their workmates.

By: LegFuJoh

LegFuJoh — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:43:47 +0000

The average person loses.
Remember, the poker sites are making a lot of money, that all comes from the players. So add up all the winners and all the losers, and you have a net loss.
Ask her what her screenname and what website. You can look up to see how she’s doing.