Hi Guys,

'learning is accelarated when shared' - I ve read this sentence in real estate book and I strongly belive in it.

I play poker for more than 9 years right now.
My main goal for playing from the very begining was to earn money playing poker so from the very 1st hand I ve decided I will become PRO. During this time it seemed to be almost impossible or improbable.
But I ve made it. I learned a lot, asked a lot of people how to play higher, earn more. I was recieving lots of information from other players.

Until now I ve had 7 coaches and each one of them gave me something that I could use into my favour on the tables. Highest stake ve been playing was nl5000 6max, but I ve earned the most on nl1k & nl2k.

I ve played on:

1. Party
2. Microgaming
3. Ipoker
4. PKR
5. PokerStars
6. FullTilt
7. Dollaro
8. 888
9. MPN
10. UNIBET
11. Merge
12. Enet
13. Revolution
14. Entraction

I ve recorded already more than 100 poker videos and about 50 chess videos.

--> my newest production: Using stats more effectively

--> whole PS.com db of mine: Strategy videos


My ultimate goal playing poker was to....not to just earn money, but to build money machine, that will let me do whatever I want.
It sounds serious, but I ve chosen real estate investments.
The price that I set not to seat to poker anymore was 30.000 PLN ~ 7.500 EUR per month passively.

At the moment I am almost done having 21.000 PLN passive + 3 companies and 18 apartments.

So I ve decided it is about time to start sharing my knowledge as long as I am still playing. I ve decided to finish my professional carrier just after 10 years so I don't mind to keep anything for me. Some time ago I was affraid that if I do this I will risk what I earn, but today I ve managed to recreate my sources of income and I strongly belive my knowledge will accelerate too improveing my time useage.

Please forgive me I won't have enough time to visit 2+2 often enough. What I think may be best is to set 2-3 days per week when I will answer to the stuff that is interessting for anyone who will ask or just put some concepts that are interessting for me.

This is my little challenge.
Today I am still here for 2hrs.
The fastest way to contact me is via skype: robmaf or my fanpage.

All best,
Robmaf

Hi Rob! I have a couple of questions.

1. I have been kinda break even for the past 100k+ hands at 25nl on stars. Do you have any strategical tips on how to beat 25/50nl zoom and non zoom tables?

2. I think my biggest weakness right now is my mental game. I make my downswings usually twice as bad as they should be (in terms of BBs) and only put in half my normal volume. Any tips on how to maintain confidence during bad run/card dead streches?

Hi Dan,

yes. There are many reasons why you don't win. It is not possible to say just like that what exactly is your main leak or what is the most important stuff for you to repair. But if you play on nl25 I can advice you to:
A.Find in your db 5 top winning regs on your stakes.
B.Review their won/lost 30bb's+ hands and make notes
C.Try to figure out what they do differently to crush these stakes

voila...


Bad run - of course it is not so easy. So please treat what I say as sharing my experience.
Here - http://scr.hu/491r/p0o8u - it is a table that I started to fill years ago. It may help.
I am judging how did I feel, how cards were helping or how did I execute the plan.
I also advice you to listen to Elliot Roe's mp3 (it works!) + a little visualisation video on PS from Schnitzelfisch.
How about your bankroll? Do you feel comfortable? Do you accept losses?

What's the best way for a newbie to get into passive income from investments?
Following amounts for examples:

25k
50k
100k

Thank you! Up to about 5 or 6 buy ins lost I don t feel anything bad. After that I start to feel worse and worse as the downswing continues. As I have gotten better and better my tolerance has increased. In the beginning, losing one or two buy ins was devastating.

Well I don't earn passively 25k USD. So I can't really say.
Unless you mean having 25k of investment capital?

There is a book Fastlane Millionaire - there named 5 best type of investments.
Real estate and online sources are top 2.

Where do you live? I know a lot about real estate, but to have passive from RE you need to know a lot or know whom you should leave it undercontrol.


Dan - you need to play shorter sessions. My assumption is: POKER IS A PLEASURE IN EACH SECOND OR I DON'T PLAY.
So having a bad session it is better to finish this hell and do something more nice and use your time effectively.

I live in the SE of the UK (near London), I have 40k free capital to invest, is this enough for real estate?

Sure, depends on your expectations.

Having 40k GBP is 200k PLN. So buying small apartment in Poland it will give you around 15-20k from rent yearly. Minus ~10% management fee.

But having 40k GBP and taking some credit you can do much more. Assuming you credibility is for 200k GBP ~ 1kk PLN.
You may buy managed and taylor cut investment having 9-11% ROI.
Or just an appartment in Warsaw having 4-6% ROI, or near the see appartment having ~ 8% ROI = everything with managment fee.

I assume you don't want to spend much time with it, because having more time, contacts , knowledge and experience there are much more solutions.

Rob, what do you think about more polarized strategies vs small bet size strategies. By polarized I mean CBeting TPTK+ type hands and checking back more middling hands. How do you think a strategy like that would fare at HS?

Any favorite beginner literature recommendations for real estate?

I'm in finance so quite familiar with capital and investments but real estate is my weakest subject.

If you had 4 property types to choose from, how would you rank:

Commercial
Low income housing
Middle income housing
Vacation rental property

Also do you see major cons for long distance property ownership?

Dan - I don't standarize my betting. Every single time I take into consideration:
1.board
2.percieved ranges
3.what to expect from my opponent

Everyone has some leaks. I want to be one step ahead vs my opponent and decide what is best and what an interpretation of my move will be.
So playing vs villain's who are not attentive you can do a lot of exploit.

Strategy that you name is a kind of standarizing your cb strategies. Every time when you do it your poker will be faster and easier vs weak and midstrong regs.
On HS vs really thinking players without changing gears in your strategies you will be crushed.

Avaritia - I am an active housing investor. Reading books is not enough, but when I read and author is easy to find I am trying to make contact and learn more, get to know each other.
I ve read:
Landlording - great book for landlords
Bigger Pockets - all of them
Complete guide to buying and selling apartment buildings
ABC of real estate investing
Investing in fixer-uppers


As you see I am focusing on Housing in general.
Renting for long-term can be automatized easly. Vacation properties are more real business like. I don't have any, because it has too low ROI for me and consumes too much time.

I focus on rental small apartments, flipping.

I haven't touched commercial yet, but everything in proper time

How would a standardized ( I guess GTO-like) strategy get crushed at HS? Maybe I misunderstood what you said.

Are u planning on making more english videos (for ps)?

What 3 podcasts of elliot roe do you like most?

Dan - IMO if you want to kill your winrate play GTO. Standarized strategy works, sure but without any special outcome.
Playing a standarized strategy vs a very good opponent is treated as DEFENSIVE strategy, not offensive. In other words a very good opponent will be able to read your moves, find lots of ways to make your life much harder. That's why I ve said it is going to be crushed. Of course standarized strategy + using reads + adapting + world class hand reading = GOLD.
Standarized strategy + automatic play + no reads + no adapting =< POOR WINRATE


Marc - glad you ve seen it. Did you like my videos?

I haven't seen 3 podcasts of Elliot

Thank you very much! I understand what you mean now

If you want to earn more money playing poker INCREASE.....the QUALITY of your game.
Don't play more - it worked 10 years ago - play LESS but much better quality.
IMO this is the KEY.

First step I recommend is to ask yourself some questions like:
Only 7% of players win regularly. 43% are earning money but not much. The rest are losing.

How can I win with 9 out of 10 opponents?
How can I improve and accelerate my learning process?
How can I outplay my opponents?
What the best players on my stakes do differently? - and do it!


Of course there are much more questions. You may and should ask yourself many questions on regular basis.

2nd step would be to get to know the best tools that works for you.
For many players that I ve coached reviewing hands after each session followed by detailed street-by-street hand analysis with visual print screens of percieved hand ranges of every player involved in a hand. Sounds complicated but read it one more time.

You just create a word file, add hands and analyze it street by street adding visuals.

After one month you will totally kill your opponents because your reading skills will improve dramaticly.
Don't look for new ways to improve. Of course some ways will work great but the true method of an improvement is to work on your FOUNDATIONS = hand reading and understanding your opponents.

What you just wrote is the blueprint to success in today's games. I already started applying it a few days ago (phuck). Playing poker is not work, it's exactly what it says it is, it's play, it's easy, or it should be easy.