he never has, or ever will, be classed as a full-time player. 2 hands per month kinda guy

plays ninth hand of session and then rosserino puts his pipe in unfamiliar location .. 'oh **** gotta close tables and download the answers brb guys'

It's in the blog u lazy fock haha! But yeah it's a funny story, managed to get to NL1k while still in uni, decide to play poker during summer instead of getting a summerjob. Just when uni ended for the year I was at the end of massive downswing and had to drop down to NL100 even tho few months earlier I was playing 1k. Almost went broke at that point and this coincides with the one and basically only moment where I actually thought about just saying **** it to poker. But then just grinded the summer and decided to take an year off of uni and then that year off kinda continued and been playing fulltime for like 2.5 years now.

Daily routine is basically wake up, grind, eat grind more, then do review for the hands ive marked from the day and then play videogames/watch stupid **** and go gym aaaaaaaand repeat every day.

Even tho the thread title might be bit confusing, I actually think while I'm playing so I don't play million hands per hour.

;______; unfortunately too true.

There's at least five better players than mmasherdog (or at least on a similar level) and he made 1,2MM playing 6max last year. I guess the rumours in the death of online cash games have been greatly exaggerated.

This is true, but how many of them made more than Shane Long last year. And he doesn't even start for Southampton. Sad.

How many hours a day you was allowing to PIO when you was upcoming like from nl200 to 500 - 1Knl?

Ty

What do you think seperates guys like llinus from the rest? Better private solver or what is it :P Caus he clearly seems to stand out of all the others, maybe just good run but prob not

Very good results!!

Any advice for midstakes players looking back at your progress?

When I was coming up I was actually working quite a lot manually on top of pio stuff. It's way better to also try to do for example manual calldown range with flopzilla and then compare that to piosolver results. This way the stuff you do sticks way better with you and you get a good feedback on what type of stuff you are visualizing incorrectly.

Back at smallstakes/early midstakes I used to do few boards like this per day. Like try to do BB def calldown on certain flop and few turns and rivers and then compare that to solver output. I'd guess I've probably averaged like 1hour study per day over my entire career, maybe at ss/ms days I studied bit more. I always liked more just looking few spots a day instead of entering proper studying binges.

What separates best chess players from the rest? They are just slightly better at everything. Actually known linus for years and talked decent amount of strat with him, and he just seems to have a knack for poker. It's not like he has figured out some special stuff that no one else has, he just seems to be a bit better at everything than everyone else.

Drop the focking ego and constantly evaluate your game as objectively as possible. Don't spend all your energy trying to justify a play that is bad. I know some players from ss-ms days that had big problems with this. Don't be afraid to make and admit mistakes. Maybe this is more a problem for smallstakes players tho.

Casual observer of this thread for some time. Sad to see you go man. Wishing you all the best

ps. thanks for the study advice! Always have trouble drawing applicable insights when just simming away in pio. I'll try out your flopzilla first strategy