Thanks for posting Duke, and congrats on the awesome results. That 3000 hr - 4000 hr no blips upward climb is impressive!

Do you have a break down of 1/3 vs 2/5 vs 5/T?

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Just two or three quick 5/5 sessions.

Sick results and pretty incredible that you didn't have a meaningful break even stretch until well over 4000 hours of live play.

Can confirm, running bad feels like **** bcuz I have no life

During my poker career I gained hobbies such as exercise, cooking, smoking weed, Netflix

I also got a wife to be and a doggie that take up a huge chunk of my time

Running poorly at poker still feels really ****ty. I don't think that will go away until you're playing in a game you're way over-rolled for

yea, too lazy to put them all in graph form but it breaks down like this rougly

2-5: +205k in 4k hours
5-10: even in 300 hours, includes plo
1-3: +22k in 700 hours

ive had 1 20 bi downswing at 1/3 like 300 hours into this sample

then 1 year later i had a stretch of ~600 hours where i won ~$9/hr

2 years after that i did a similar 600 hour stretch

I am a rec player with a 6 figure engineering job and a wife who makes almost the same, and it still feels bad to run ****ty even at 1/2.

If you are a competitive person, losing will always suck, even if you know you had little control over it.

I can confirm that being severely over rolled doesnt help reduce the ****ty feeling. At least not if you hate losing as much as I do.

Absolutely insane +50k run at 1600-1900, what was your win rate during that time?

Well that sucks

Like 150 or so

darn straight.

Sick volume

Sick everything

Why I enjoy playing 1/2 It's like being invincible.

Duke - nice work ethic. Great volume with great win rate!! Much respekt sir.

as some one who is insanely overrolled for my game I promise u that actually as you get older running shtty actually feels worse.

I get more tilted if I lose at $2/5 instead of $5/10 or $10/20 even if it's for way less money. The feeling of "these people play so terribly and I can't beat them" bothers me more than it should.


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Don't play PLO

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That's entitlement tilt. If that's the biggest thing that tilts you, getting rid of it will get rid of most of your tilt.

lol deep insight there. "If X is the biggest problem you have, getting rid of it will get rid of most of your problems"

Many people, myself included, have trouble seeing the obvious solution.

I understand. I'm being facetious and don't disagree with your assessment

That was the most civil ending to a petty statement lmao

Happy to report that my 16 month stint playing professionally will be winding down. After a seemingly never ending 6 month interview process for a commercial real estate brokerage position I was just notified I will be hired.

It was an enjoyable if not mediocre run and I can't say I recommend it for anyone in a similar position (have a bachelors a masters degree; left a very well paying job), but it got me to where I want to be and likely played a small part in the interview process.

Now I can return to the realm of being a rec-fish.

Congratulations

I just hit 1000 hours since that time I quit poker for a few months after I got really mad about losing at poker because I was bad at poker. So why not post some graphs and numbers from a weekend warrior.



From 2nd half of 2015 on (after moving from Venue #1 to Venue #2) I've only been playing weekends, usually one session of 6 ish hours every weekend. Lately it's been more. Before it was often less.







Note, venue/stake splits don't quite add up to the total, there's one session of plo and a few random other casinos with 1 or 2 sessions that I omitted

Not quite a boss like many people here and I do feel that over those 1000 hours I've run above average (Even coming off a breakeven 200 hours)

But I've been at the point for a while where I don't need to stress about poker because it's just a nice easy fun side income. For money that improves my quality of life and also that I can afford to lose. Don't have a desire to move up and be a holla balla, things are good enough already.

Like Squid said and like johnny knows, stable income + working life + poker hobby is the nuts. Even if I could maintain this hourly playing full time I wouldn't want to.

Although its not a ton of hours, I find it interesting that your $$/hr at 1/2 & 1/3 is almost exactly the same as your $$/hr at 2/5 even though 2/5 is 250% higher stakes.

I say that because mine is very very close also. I think people greatly underestimate the skill difference between the 2 levels. IMO its a huge jump in quality of play. I mean 2/5 is scattered with people who aren't great but a good 2/5 player playing 1/2 is like Tom Brady playing against high schoolers.

The big difference is that at the venue most of my 1/2 hours are from, there were multiple 1/2 tables and usually just one 2/5 table (which was populated with regs, some of whom were better players!) And sometimes I'd even choose a 1/2 table over the 2/5. I didn't table select ultra vigilantly (don't be the doofus who blatantly bumhunts one player and hops multiple times a session.) I'd just try to go to whatever table had a lot of chips on it and it was usually a good decision. So it's basically the best table out of 4-8 tables, versus one random table.

DK, had no idea fallsview was one of your rooms. I was there on holiday recently, really neat place.

One of the bigger things that goes overlooked is the stack depth between 1/2 and 2/5. I think it's pretty clear that a 9 handed 1/2 with $500 average stack is a better game than a 9 handed 2/5 with $500 average stack.

What I'm getting at is that I've often been in good 1/2 games where the smallest effective stacks are 300bb. I don't think I've ever been in that situation in 2/5 or only a handful of times.

You have much greater implied odds and usually people are still limping or raising lol $12 which is just incredible when you are 300bb deep.

Just last night I was on a decent 2/5 and on a super heater (brag) and took a break and saw a 1/2 with 3 $800 stacks and the rest $300-$600. I tanked for 10 minutes on whether I should table change.