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How high should you go in poker?

There is a tremendous amount of coverage these days and talk regarding high stakes poker. If you look at poker on television then they are either screening high stakes cash games or poker tournaments where the action is either during high blind play or on the final table. There is very little coverage on middle stakes or low stakes cash games. This often creates a subconscious thought process that high stakes poker is where you need to be. Well firstly you need to realise that many of these programs on high stakes poker are not what they appear to be.

Sometimes the players have been paid to be on those programs and paid substantial amounts of money. Don?t you ever stop to ask yourself why so many supposed world class payers would sit in the same game with each other? That simply doesn?t make sense and the only logical answer is that these players are making money on these games beyond the actual playing of the hands. I personally was once offered a million dollars by a leading poker site if I would advertise them?..there was only one snag and I had to reach the final table of the WSOP Texas Hold em main event.

However though this underlines how any sort of televised poker is worth an awful lot of money to poker sites in terms of advertising. So do not think that televised high stakes poker is always what it appears to be. You need to remember that when you play poker that you can only make money by your opponents making mistakes. However just how are world class opponents going to be making enough mistakes for you to make a living? All this of course is presuming that you can find hundreds of thousands of dollars or even several million dollars as a bankroll and can avoid the swings.

So never mind the hype of high stakes poker because this is all it is??hype! Very few players come through the journey from low stakes to high stakes poker alive and in one piece. Even if you do well then normal variance can tear you apart. If the thought of losing twenty buy ins terrifies you at NL100 with one hundred dollar buy ins then what about at $300-$600 where the buy in is $60,000? I tried myself some years ago to do this and I can speak from experience not just from my journey but also of the journey taken by many others that it simply isn?t worth it.

If you downgrade your goals so that you try and make poker a ?good career? rather than trying to be the best on the planet then not only would your chances escalate but your life can be altered for the better because of your goals being more down to earth. In my opinion high stakes poker should be reserved for nothing more than simple entertainment and it should be left at that.