Is Macau on the planet?

Yeah, I mean I would just play half the hours and make do with the easy peasy $75K/year and then hang out at the beach the rest of the time.

GcluelesslifecoachnoobG

I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but do you ever have anything positive to add? I’ve only been respectful to you.

but surely you understand that 150k means a lot of different things depending on where you live??

Yeah, of course. That was the bottom end. I expect that number to be significantly higher in LA.

I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves. smh

I mean... after paying taxes, accounting for retirement funding, etc... self-employed $150k is about what would be required to live the lifestyle of someone who hast $75-100k in W2 earnings.

I am... I love this sh&t. There's not enough in the world.

$150k is 15bb/hr at 2/5 for 2000hrs a year, every year, year in year out... no matter how much COVID19 you have.

The top 1% of poker players maybe can do this. And with their brain power would almost certainly be able to make more $$$ doing something else.

I think we need Team RoadtoPro shirts for the meetup this year. Paging foldie!

obv respecting everyone is obv



imagine you are teaching chess for a long period of time. and you're a very very good chess player, like top 5% in the world. and every new student you teach, they tell you they're going to be a grand master within 2 years. you scoff and try to explain to them that while that is possible, it's not likely based on your experiences of the game.

now you've been teaching for years and years and still this happens, and most all of those students flame out. every once and a while one will get close and even less often one will actually do it.

just because one does it very rarely does that make it a logical statement? and just because it does happen very rarely, does that make every student who says it is not talking out their ass?

does that make any sense?

Alright, we’ll see man.

Now we're talking

I remember one time I responded to one of your HHs and you said something along the lines of "whatever. I'm looking to play for a living soon. Sorry if you don't have the same goal." Even though it was completely unrelated to what I said.

I mean, you're not gonna make $150k or anywhere close. I wonder how many people on this site are even capable of that.

If I were you, I'd get a day job and try to learn the fundamentals of live nlhe first - by a mix of CLP and here, try to establish a respectable win rate, have a comfortable amount of money saved up, and then take a shot at playing for a living. This is a distaster waiting to happen, and I genuinely have no idea how to say that in a nice way.

There's a non zero chance I'll be playing for a living soon, but I'd be going in with realistic goals and planning.

Ive never had a student become a master, but I’ve never had one commit to it either. I had those aspirations at 6 and my coach’s affirmation that it was possible was essential to my success in achieving that goal in my early teens.

poker is different. It is extremely easy on a technical level. There is no stake live, even $2k,$4k in Bobby’s room or whatever that compares to the difficulty of high level chess. That’s the difference. The hard parts are the brm and mental game and what I anticipate I’ll struggle with.

The high expectations and lofty goals are essential. It’s always worked for me. I was the top 1% in chess for my age my entire childhood. Why would it be any different in poker?

What the **** are you talking about? Stop making stuff up

you seemed to have missed the point of my story

reread it and realize that you are not the teacher, but the student. the people in this thread, attempting to give you advice, are the teacher.

the way we respond to you is because we have seen this time and time again. most people like you flame out. even if you don't, our advice is still prudent.

My fav part of this afternoon debate is 67o and RTP pretending to argue in an attempt to throw us off the undeniable knowledge that they are the same person.

and equating your skills in a game with perfect information to a game with imperfect information is a slippery slope i would avoid.

lul

+1 to you good sir.

It was something along those lines

Some day I should actually learn how to use the weights that are sitting around the gym.

The machines are just so quick & easy tho...

Don't you have a family pot to c bet into with bottom pair, or a pot you lost to cry about?

if it was more than 15 minutes ago, it exists and can't be edited. just find it and reply to it in here instead of all this "i think you said..." bs

No it wasn’t. I have no idea what you are taking about. Why do you feel the need to make things up to make other people look bad?

@ squid - subtle...

Yes...and yes. Thank you.