I Spent 8 Hours Playing Games That Pay Real Money

can you make money playing games online there's actually a whole lot of videos on YouTube claiming you can so in this video I’m going to spend eight hours straight trying to play online games that apparently pay you real life money to play them in order to figure out if this kind of thing can actually be a legitimate way to earn a living or at least make some coffee money or make any money at all I might sound a little crazy if you're not familiar with this concept but this is a real thing if you search up make money playing games online on YouTube people make some wild claims talking about you can make five hundred dollars per day thirty six dollars an hour seventy five dollars per day  I mean that's crazy five hundred dollars a day that's like almost 200 grand a year why would you spend 10 years going to college accumulate student debt and then work a stressful job as a surgeon when you can make the same amount playing games according to this video man but I’ve actually even gotten a few comments about a new genre of these online paid games that's been emerging in the crypto nft space and apparently that's a very legitimate thing but for this next type of game I’m actually really excited about and we are going to start the eight hour journey with them these are skill based games in which you compete for real money against other people is it gambling it's a fine line but I don't think it's defined as that because these aren't roulette or slots type games the regular mobile games so it's kind of similar to sports right you can be competing in a paid tennis tournament is that gambling maybe I’m just trying to justify poor financial decisions here I don't know but these are not investment strategies that's correct it's actually kind of interesting the way I stumbled on this whole concept I searched up compete in games for money on google which led me to this cash for skills website on which there's a big list of games you can download on your phone and compete for real money on which sounded really sketchy to me it almost sounds illegal does the apple app store really allow this kind of thing I didn't know but I downloaded a couple of the games on the website some didn't even load up but a few did and the ones that did were powered by something called the skills which I started searching up to see if that's a scam or not and found that it's a platform that integrates into iOS and android games and allows players to compete against each other for money so I put ten dollars on my skills account and played a dollar match ended up actually winning my first game although you only end up with 40 cents it's a 60 cent entry fee both players pay it one keeps a dollar so the odds aren't the best the skills company is the one that really wins every game in fact turns out this business model is so good that arc invest a very respected cutting edge etf actually holds 200 billion dollars’ worth of shares of the skills company I’m a fan and hold our etf so technically I’m even invested in this skills company so that's what made me kind of trust them I still don't know if I’ll be able to withdraw the money but given that there's actually a publicly traded company behind all of it and ark is investing into this company that really built up my confidence I’m thinking we deposit a hundred dollars into the skills network of games download a bunch of them and see where we're at in two hours which games are the best will I lose all the money or will I make millions which speaking of publicly traded stocks and making millions we got to be prepared for that and know what to do with the money when we get there which brings us to the sponsor of today's video public.com wow that was a battery transition if you guys are not familiar public is an investing app where you can buy and sell stocks the thing that makes it unique and what I love about it though is it's social so you can follow other people and see what they're investing in and why you 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for today alone so I guess we're buying the dip here but oh well let's do a thousand dollars to the moon baby five traders that's got super rich trading stock market let's begin with the most famous one anyways it's currently 9 08 a.m. we're going to be at this until 5 pm that's a full eight hour shift so let's clock in and test out this company that we are now shareholders in our zero current balance is a hundred dollars and the 40 cents that I won from the game that I played yesterday we're going to go ahead and start with this words game I’m going to play it for a bit and then we'll try some other ones two minutes on the clock let's get it first word god I feel it this is going to be a blessed game ged Todd dot dots dub sub sub to the channel doge ah they counted that one so I ended up playing the words game for a while I would lose some rounds when others kind of playing at a breakeven level but leaning more towards the losing side pretty early on though I stopped getting matched with live players and would just have to submit my scores and the app said they would match me with someone when they became available which was a little suspicious after the word game though I tried out this racing game which was pretty fun but I tried playing a paid round I had to submit my score and then I guess no one plays this game since I never ended up getting matched so that round is still open and I didn't play anymore since I couldn't actually compete if there's nobody playing given that this was the case I ended up going on the skills website and finding the popular section for their games this way I knew there'd be other people playing them which this led me to find a pool game that I ended up playing for a while pretty fun lots of people on there but at the end of the two hours our total balance was 93 dollars so we did lose seven dollars in the two hours so we were working for negative three dollars and fifty cents per hour which is below minimum wage for most regions in the us okay we are now two hours in not going to lie all the glitches and whatnot aside these games are a pretty good time having money on the line makes things very interesting but I think there has to be some sneaky business going on on the back end of these skills games because if you think about it their whole goal is to keep you playing since they take a cut of every match so the more matches you play the more money they make meaning they don't want you losing all of your money right away they want you to win some lose some and kind of keep your balance at a similar level while slowly going down in order to lure you in and keep you hooked and keep you playing more matches I don't know there definitely has to be an algorithm behind this although I don't know how advanced or malicious or profit hungry it is I would keep playing these but I want to give some of these other games a chance maybe we'll come back to it but next up is access infinity which a lot of you guys have been commenting that I should try I don't know much about it but it's a game that has to do with crypto and nfts there seems to be a huge community around it so I’m going to watch some videos about it and try to figure out what it even is see if we can make some money with it and I’ll report back in like an hour or two so this whole game is centered around these little monsters called axes which are nfts with different levels of rarity and utility in the game but you basically just build up a team of them and then you can battle other people ‘steams for doing so I believe you earn crypto called slap which is used for access infinity’s internal economy however you can exchange that to whatever crypto or currency you want once you have it but I think the real money isn't in the battles but rather inbreeding the monsters once you have two of them you can pay a fee to breed them and then sell your offspring on the market which is the cheapest axis right now are going for like 400 bucks it's really expensive to get into this game at the moment and also rent out your axes to other players there's a whole program for that there's also the ability to buy land I mean it gets pretty deep I haven't mastered all of the complexities of this entire game but you really can't make money with this there's people on YouTube right now making like a hundred grand a month with it end of the day though it's not all sunshine and rainbows this is pretty risky if the crypto market crashes if people stop playing the game there's a lot of factors here that can make your investment into the game just completely disappear I did try it out though to do so I had to buy three axes each one was worth around 450 I got absolutely taxed but I bought them I played some battles kind of did some digging it was pretty cool I can see how this is succeeding and there's opportunity there to build a whole business inside of this game that will pay you real money which is crazy we didn't end up making money with axe infinity but you can't expect to on your first date with this game because it's kind of like an investment or starting a business depending on which route you take with your game play but wow I can see how if you research this game really well and run all of your numbers properly you definitely could make some serious money with not so much the battling but through the breeding and renting out of the little axes which I mean look at them they are pretty pretty cute but I can't believe I just spent like 1500 bucks on them they do look cool and are nfts I could sell them so who knows maybe they're going to be worth even more in the future as this game grows more popular or maybe they'll be worth nothing if the game dies down anyways as you can see it's now three o'clock next up we're going to try to play online poker for these final two hours controversial choice because poker is essentially gambling I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but there are professional poker players right so there are players of this card game who got really good at it and are able to consistently win a lot of it is just random luck but there is this aspect to the game of analyzing probability reading people and knowing how to play your cards right most people are gambling when they play poker they don't stick to a strategy don't pay attention just kind of wing it they're at a casino they're slightly faded but I want to see what happens if we watch some YouTube videos on some strategies and try to implement that can we stay profitable over the next couple hours playing for real money and treating it like a sport I’m going to start with a hundred dollars here and let's see where things go so I try to use a tight and very safe poker strategy I folded a lot of hands out of the bat if they weren't good I didn't do a lot of bluffing which led to me just slowly losing some money however I eventually got a full house which is the fourth highest hand I played it fairly well lured someone in they matched my beds and I won so that gave me some hope but they ended up taking a huge loss to someone with a lot of money on the table mans was just bullying everyone the whole time I thought he was bluffing so I matched his bets on one of the rounds and ended up taking a huge l and it was all downhill from there eventually I got caught up went all in lost it all and the 100 was gone it's gone it's all gone so I spent the last half hour just playing the skills games and again it really felt like the algorithm would give wins and losses in a matter that just kept me playing i'd win with terrible scores but then lose when I’d get some of my highest so kind of sketchy I don't know but I ended up with ninety three dollars in like so coming out of this video we didn't actually earn anything the skills type games were fun but given the algorithms in place there I don't think that's a very reliable way to earn money axe infinity pretty risky because who knows if that game will stay relevant and it's pretty expensive to get in right now but there is some opportunity there with the breeding and marketplace features people do make money with that game playing poker not the move if you look at the stats you basically have no chance of becoming a profitable player most people will lose money or even worse develop a gambling addiction no way can I recommend that but all that said if someone put a glitzy to my dome and told me I had to make money using one of these methods or they shoot I would probably go the crypto nft type game route or even just start streaming and making content playing games you actually enjoy that would probably have the most upside potential with this kind of thing but if you're in it strictly for the money your time would be much better allocated doing freelance work online or just starting an online business so this isn't something I would really recommend for the sole purpose of making money anyways hope you guys enjoyed this  and have an amazing rest of your day peace