the Chip Shuffler

This is the aspiration of many young men and women: to become an online poker pro.

Some work ten hours a day … or week. Some make income that CEOs would envy. With the explosion of the game of poker online, they are now hundreds of online poker pros who make a living from poker.

Often they make the move to pro when they start to realize that they can make more money in online poker than from their regular job. And if their job is a pain, the choice is even easier. Multi-tabling is a common practice where that play from 4 to 24 tables simultaneously, just to maximize their gains.

The ideal that such players seek to achieve is to get sponsorship by an online poker room. Recently Tom “durrrr” Dwan joined the prestigious Team Full Tilt Poker in a contract valued at about 2 million a year. As Full Tilt pays travel and registration fees for all major international tournaments. And Tom Dwan does not pay rake, which equates hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings every year as he plays in the ultra high stakes.

To last in this business, you must be good at cards and in your head too.

Having a job where you earn a good living and where you have total freedom is a great plus. No boss, a lot of travel to the Bahamas, Australia, Monte Carlo, etc . Nothing to complain about.

It is estimated that about 10% of poker players earn money from the game, but only 1% of them manage to live very well from it. Many smaller grinders only succeed in making a smaller income that just pays the bills. And they play ten hours a day. It is a question of style and stake level.

Being a poker pro is having a great freedom and earning lots of money only to the best of them. But there are also a lot of instability. Players do not know at the end of the month how much they will win or if they will win. To last in this business you must be good cards, but most importantly have a strong  head. Because poker is a game of strategy and psychology, where luck plays an important role in the short term.

Hello chip shuffling friend.

This is my blog about everything related to online gambling. Yes I know I could have chosen another name for this blog, as online one cannot shuffle chips. The chips are virtual chips and not physical objects like in a brick and mortar casino. But this is a figure of speech.

Chip shuffling is a way to relax our body while preparing our next bet, and you can do that also online. So what games are we talking about here? Any game involving chips, i.e. poker, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, etc. The list of available games at online gambling venues is long and getting longer, so each individual type of game will be covered in the posts of this blog looking forward.

The focus of this gambling blog nevertheless will be card games as this is what I like the most. Poker in particular, and you will read interesting stories about the different poker variations such as Texas Hold’em poker, Pot-Limit Omaha, 5-card Stud, Triple Draw, HORSE and other mixed games, Caribbean Stud, Chinese poker and many more.

Other card games I do not know as well so there will be some sort of learning curve by given my deep knowledge of the game of poker, this should not be an issue. Blackjack promise to be a very hot topic and I will cover card counting systems, trying to uncover if there exist any profitable systems to play online blackjack.

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