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by Geezus_42 874 days ago
Pretty sure it's a joking way of saying they used to be a day trader.
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You can grind out poker games for a living, especially when there is a steady stream of rubes that think they’re hot stuff because they clear out friendly home games. In the long term those kind of people always lose to the pros.
I grinded online poker games for a summer in college. I observed opponents betting behavior and classified them into one of a half dozen strategies and then ran a strict algorithm based on who I was betting against. I ran three tables at the same time, finding success in rapid low stake games. My edge at the time was varying my play based on my opponent. Many of the other professional low stake players at the time were running simpler strategies on more tables.
Haha it was not. While I goofed around with that in the late 90’s/early aughts I never believed it was a long-term profession and never really won or lost much at it.