What I am going to write may sound harsh, but it is for your own good. Read it with care and think about it unless you want to ruin your life by disregarding it right now, and realizing it way too late.

Goal without a plan is just a wish. Poker is extremely complicated "game". Most of the people are not able to discipline and push themselves higher in order to be on their own. They need a guidance - a father, a boss, a commander.

You will never be a professional poker player. You just don't have it in you.

So there's 51 in the pot and you have 60 effective and you don't shove? Basically min raising and inviting every other caller along..... This is a shove preflop everytime and hopefully get it to 2-3 handed with lots of dead money in the pot.

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What site/tracker are you using here, out of curiosity?

Righteous, I've been a pro athlete, I've climes to the top, I've won the biggest events. I know more of what it takes to achieve success than most players in poker do. I will be a pro, just u watch.

Subbed. Prove me wrong.

Some online poker tracker I was trying out. You input your own info which works well considering I play on bovada and play some live. I'll look and see if I can find the name

The reason I didn't call is because I wanted to bring along a few callers the average effective stack was about 100 maybe 150 didn't want to shove with 60 and get folds. I understand what you're saying here but I do think with the table I was on it was OK for me to only min raise. Thanks for your thoughts

Out of interest what were you a pro athlete at? It's my belief that given the right work ethic , diligence and openness to take others advice that anyone can make it as a poker pro.

Gl in your challenge

I played professional paintball before joining the military

between yesterday and today I am +38.00

lost a 300$ pot with KJ to J10 board was JAJ 8 10

besides that i was pretty hand dead for the rest of the two hours i played before coming into work. All in all I played well.

Question on a and how you guys would play this.

I hold KJcc BTN folds to me i raise to 15 get call from the BB
board comes
A73cc

He checks I check
8h
he checks I check
2h
he bets 25 I reraise to 50 he tanks and folds.

he announced he had Q high

Thoughts? how could I have gotten more value? or could I?

next couple of days look pretty bad for poker. I follow m 8 hour shift tonight with a 12 hour shift sunday into monday morning, then I'm working an extra 4 hour shift tuesday, followed by a 12 on wednesday and then a 8 on thursday, friday i want to play, i really want to play, but my girlfriend is home from pre deployment training for a night, and she wants to go out that night. So i probbly wont play much friday if any at all, saturday morning I am going to try to knock out a $135 fat stack mtt, depends on how friday night goes, i don't drink to much any more when we go out so i don't plan on getting to messed up. She leaves in the middle of the day saturday so saturday evening the grind begins.

Sat
$135 mtt fat stack
1/3 nl cash
sun
$60 mtt
cash
$60 mtt
monday
$65 mtt
cash
tuesday
maybe some cash or a day off
wednesday
back to work

atleast that's roughly my plan

ok so roughly with live and online combined im up like 39.40 since this has started, nothing huge but I was down over 98.00 so we are back up got through that bad patch.

I need to work on my online play, I play much much better live, i do prefer to play live, but even being 45 minutes from the biggest poker room in the MW playing live isn't always an option, so off the top of your guys heads what might be my biggest problem at online? why am I negative 150.00 online?? I just can't figure it out.

Due diligence dude, with some luck, and you will succeed.

like i said I'm just happy to see some positive results, finally got through that bad run, seeing improvement slowly, still studying a good amount. and just running with the good variance as much as i can

because your play for online is not strong enough, you should stick to live, buy a membership at a training site 1/2 table for a month

expecting to win online with your current skills is just foolish

also 30/hour is absurd, that is 10k/month for any hard working player, thats 10k tax free usd for many countries, which is a top 1-5% income depending on the country. how many people do you think make that a year

having dreams is nice but get out of here

^ Somewhat accurate. Making 30/hour is not absurd and it is not 10k/month for "any" hard working player, if you play 8 hours a day x 7 days a week it ends up being a couple hundred short of 7K a month. Don't get me wrong that is a lot of money to be making, yearly salary of 80K (before taxes) but to say it is absurd leads to the idea of why even play poker then? What is the point of playing if your goals of making 30/hr seem "absurd"?

I find this is a huge problem with a large portion of the poker community nowadays, and I'm beginning to understand why. Most of these guys start out with the mentality that poker is going to be easy/fast money and once they educate themselves and realize it is hard, they then deem it "impossible" or "absurd".

As poker players the reason we start playing is for the passion of the game and the money it brings, to get to the point and start saying making 30/hr from poker is absurd then you have to ask yourself, what do you play for? To say that you play only for passion is actually absurd, the money is what brings us to the game. As someone who is paying his way through university and life expenses with a part time and poker earnings, I am telling you it is not impossible. It is very possible, it takes tremendous amounts of hard work: waking up at 6am and grinding, rigorous table selection, and going into immense detail over hands is just the beginning.

I'm tired of seeing players telling other players it is "impossible" just because they have failed. It is not. It might be difficult to a whole new level but it is not impossible. Good luck with what ever you decide to do, just my 2 cents.

if you've played poker for a year and have ~1000+hours then 30/hour is very reasonable, absurd is in context

and 10k/month with 30 an hour is just 10.5 hours/day if you think some guy living in russia is not willing to do that then just look on stars lobbies and see how many are doing that right now

i shoulda qualified my statement, my point is, poker is not easy, you have to work at it, this guy seems to think the poker world owes him money just cause he a pro athelethe

Subbed good luck mate hope you do well

u shuld first play on ur free time while working once u get those 100k u could start fulltime on poker , believe me poker is very dificult now, everyone is a pro and u cant just launch urself in todays poker thinking u going to make 10k in sng per month.
if it was 6 7 years ago maybe, work hard , if doesnt work back to security.

what happened to your goal of making 5K a month at SNG's?

Why arent you using the GI Bill if you were in the military for 6 years?

came here to see 5k a month. got $3 sng updates.

I completely agree with this, it is not easy and yea this guys thought process is off in the large scheme of things.

but if he plays 1000000000000000000000000000 $3 sngs he could make 5k in a month right?