The best online poker players are like machines. There is no crazy bluffing or anything of that nature and they operate in the same way as a financial day trader in principle. They concentrate on reducing their overheads and this means the rake that they pay. This allows them to play unlike other poker players and poker really does become like trading. Many professional traders and big trading companies look to create large volume with a low percentage return on turnover.
Let us look at a very successful trader for example who made say 15% on their trading turnover. If their turnover was say $2 million per year then they would make $300,000 as a trader. But imagine a huge corporation who maybe had a turnover of $500 million but who only had a 0.5% profit on that amount. Despite having a percentage return of only 1/30th on the successful day trader, they would make $2.5 million per year simply on such a massive turnover.
The best online players look to try and play poker with a very high turnover even if this means that they may be sacrificing technical prowess in order to achieve it. The most successful poker players online simply do not play the best technical game. However imagine of you could play twenty tables at NL100 with an earn rate of 5bb/100 and so $10/100 hands.
Even playing full ring would get you around 1600 hands per hour and this would equate to $160/hr and $6400 for a forty hour working week. This could be a combination of rakeback and winnings but high volume is where the real money is for the majority of players online these days.
