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What stakes? what site? How many hours a week?

spending a year grinding poker to only make 180k sounds like torture. my condolences

>>26910269
1/2-10/20. past 10 years I've averaged about 100hrs/month or play time.

>>26910296
lol yeah fuck poker. Luckily I don't have to play that much, esp with the recent crypto boom

>>26910698
*of play time>>26910269

i'm professionally 1 tabling 25 zoom poker while i wait on my stimulus check and inheritance

>>26910698
where do you play anon? I don't trust a single website with my money, and they're probably illegal in my shithole thanks to the (((greatest allies))) defending me from making money.

>>26911132
move up to where rake isnt eating you alive imo

>>26911224
I play in pennsylvania and new jersey. We have legalized and regulated online poker out here. If you are stateside, there are a few options for online poker, but they arent particularly soft (nv, nj, pa are all fairly soft player pools)

>>26911719
Huh surprisingly my communist shithole (california) allows it. I'll have to look into it

>>26909722
how did you get good at poker?

How big is your moms dick and what does it smell like?

>>26912481
Online options in CA are meh. If you want to be serious about poker I would spend time playing online to learn fundamentals (and basically expect to lose) and transfer those skills to crushing the mouth-breathers out at commerce or bay 101 or whatever live poker casino is closest to you

>>26912572
Thousands of hours of playing and studying. There's no way around it. If you want to win big, you have to study big

>>26911719
We've probably battled a ton on nj sites

>you were too young to play pre 2006 poker
>you never had a chance to take money from all those 5IQ Boomers trying to be moneymaker

It hurts

no limit holdem or something else?

>>26913076
How do you feel about AI players? Isn't it impossible to beat bots nowadays

Made 100k today thanks to doge LUL

>>26913076
what exactly is there to study outside of knowing hands and the probabilities and whatnot? also do you find yourself not having a great poker face if/when you go out to casinos since you normally play online?

i went to the casino for the first time a couple months ago and turned $100 into $300

>>26913076
I’m a senior in college and want to head to Texas in the summer. I’ve played 1.8k tournies and have a 35% ROI. I can beat 10 nl online, but I’m break even to slightly losing at 25 nl. What do I need to know to crush Texas this summer at 2/5/10?

>>26913703
Hi friend. obv not outing my sn

>>26913796
Yeah I mean, you could say that about anything... Not everyone can be lucky and get in at poker 2004 or btc 2010 or whatever. You can still beat the world at any game as long as you are willing to put in the time to figure out the appropriate strategies

>>26913817
99% nlhe, 1% plo. I sit omaha when there are at least 2 superwhales on the table

>>26913950
Bots crush any human competition. As such, I moved back from playing abroad (I played pokerstars 2008-2014 on the worldwide/international site) to playing on legalized and regulated usa sited post 2015. There are legal penalties for bot usage on the USA sites so I feel safer playing here in the current environment

>>26914044
noice. hope you are rotating profits into btc or eth

>>26914200
what game were you playing? Wishing you the best of luck brah

>>26914790
Honestly you would prob already be a winning player at the austin or dallas clubs that spread poker. If you want to maximize earnings, I would subscribe to a training site and try to absorb as much info as possible. Anyone playing live at the 1/2-5/10 level is basically a 80iq mongoloid, pros included

>>26915495
You like upswing the best? How many buy ins do you like for your roll?

>>26914118
This is fairly difficult to explain to a person not deeply into poker. There are strategies that you can employ that dominate a layman's strat. It revolves around how you construct the range of hands you would take a particular action with. If your opponent isnt sizing their bets or picking the exact correct combos to bet, check/call, check/fold, check/raise etc with, then you are beating them. I can try to clarify further if that is too esoteric

>>26916439
I don't have a subscription to the upswing lab, but I respect the pros who produce content there. They very well could be the best poker training site atm.

>>26916719
Do you think 10 bbs/hour is manageable at 2/5/10?

>>26917125
For a hardened pro like me, yes. Coming it as more of a greenhorn, you won't hit that winrate for a while. Its def possible after x amount of study and play hours though.

Hope you are serious about this brah! If you actually like poker and put in the time, you'll crush it

>>26917548
I’m trying man. I’ve been grinding tourneys on betonline for the past year and a half in uni. I’m doing real well in tournaments—cuz so bad, but cash is tough. I’m too aggressive on river bluffs, and I still can’t fold upper half of my range when I should. But other than that I’m solid I think. I plan on heading to Texas w my gains, and run it up from 10k. I think i can do it, but you don’t know until you do it

>>26918295
If you take your studies seriously and put in the volume, you're gonna make it. I believe in you fren

>>26918604
Thanks man. What kinda volume live you talkin?

>>26918806
Hard for me to say as I don't know other particulars of your life situation. Are you going straight YOLO into poker with no other real prospects? You plan on running up a 10k life roll for this venture or just 10k for the poker roll and you have some extra cheddar on the side to take care of rent and other expenses?

Typically when you are running it up from lower stakes like that, you want to run your roll up to a point where you can play in games where rake is decimating your advantage. For example, in a 1/2 live game where they rake preflop action, you are going to have a hard time breaking like $5-10/hr. You want to exit this sort of situation as soon as possible, bankroll granting. 2/5 is less bad, and 5/10 and higher much less so. How fast you can move up is dictated by your bankroll and skill level.

Sorry for this tipsy rant, but yeah I can't tell you exactly how much you need to play because some of these factors are unknowable to me (esp how well you play... like how could you explain that to me?) but its almost assured you have to put in sick hours at the lower stakes if you plan to make the real bucks in a year or two

>>26920309
The 10k would just be for poker. I’m starting to build a pretty comfy life, so I could reinvest all my profits back into my poker roll. Though it sounds like I should start w 15k so I can play 2/5. I plan on living from interest of my investments and poker gains. 20 hours/week for 100k/yr is my ultimate poker goal.

>>26921261
I’ve been offered a financial advisor position, but i don’t think I am gunna take it

>>26921261
>20 hours/week for 100k/yr is my ultimate poker goal.

Been doing almost exactly this for about a decade now. If you can find your way into the right games then this should be doable. godspeed brah

i think i tilt too easily and am too unwilling to put hard work to really learn this shit but hope you run good op

>>26909722
What study material would you suggest to step out of recreational player mode? Certain courses or books you could recommend? I love poker

>>26922121
If poker isn't tickling your fancy, then yeah find whatever you are passionate about and profit off of that. Appreciate the well-wishes friend.

>>26910698
What do you do with the other 620 hours in the month

>>26909722
how many GME stonks are you hodling?

>>26922732
As as a recreation player, there is prob enough youtube free content to get you up to a decent level. I'd check out the videos on the bluffthespot youtube channel, specifically the vids of lower stakes.

Once you are winning at smaller stakes, say 10nl-50nl, I would probably look into paid training sites. I know runitonce has a subscription available targeting players who play smaller stakes, and that will run you $10/month (last I checked.)

>>26922855
I spend a decent amount of time browsing poker related content, probably somewhere around 20-100hrs/month depending on how much I feel like doing it. At times I'm taking it more seriously and grinding out poker simulations and solutions and at some times I'm just shitposting on the poker forums.

Rest of the time I'm browsing here, crypto twitter, or hanging out with the gf

>>26922976
none, just sympathize with the movement. Fuck the oligarchs

>>26923478
Sweet will check it out. A poker pro i bumped into last year suggested run it once too. Good luck anon