i find most people beautiful as beauty coming from the inside usually. just the outlook my mom has and transferred to me~

Florida was kewl.


vibing in norcal
















cheers

Started from the beginning and still just a few pages into the journey.

Found the early posts on chess to be interesting.

Middling chess player myself, but I find the history and strategy addictive.

It is probably why I find poker and dynasty sports so enjoyable.

Curious after all this time where have you found similarities? Training, strategy etc...

yosemite is a nice place, the trees are pretty

hey, welcome to the thread!

i saw this, but i missed the question at the end initially.

is there anything specific you are curious about, sir? please lmk

my insight on chess vs poker hasn’t evolved too much in the time since i’ve answered this previously.. buried somewhere.


fwiw ( nothing )

chess > poker: the difficulty of competition
chess > poker: difficulty in becoming competitive
chess > poker: difficulty to reach the top few percentiles
chess > poker: time investment required to master
chess > poker: mental difficulty

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poker > chess: emotional difficulty

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poker is similar to chess: the complexity and beauty of the game


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in my opinion, the most significant difference between the chess & poker world is in terms of the people you interact with irl - not the games themselves.


while there’s significantly more money in poker than in chess - poker as a career pales in comparison (financially) to many lucrative careers, IMO. And these more desirable careers are far more accessible to the people crushing chess (esp nowadays) than poker if they are interested.

being friends with chess prodigies or brilliant and driven people can be its little bubble. this is something i overlooked the magnitude of before pro poker, where i've been forced to spend significantly more time with people who don’t fit this archetype. i would actively resist those interactions growing up. this spoke more to my insecurity and avoidance of discomfort than anything.


many people in these circles will be millionaires in their twenties via real jobs (+ high upward mobility & leverage). then there are others (like mr hans moke niemann, or ms alex botez) that are either playing or streaming chess for a living presently.


these are some of the kindest and most genuine people you will ever meet, and they didn’t necessarily grow up rich (as many would presume) as a collective.


I’ve learned to appreciate how inf rare some of these friendships are, and it remains my favorite part of my chess experiences.


i do think the camaraderie within high-stakes poker replicates this to a lesser extent, which is partially why this pursuit is desirable to me over an isolating corporate career.


hope these ramblings were insightful to someone

Just skimmed through your thread for the first time, super interesting!

I’ve always liked chess but found it too slow to study, but I think I’m sitting around 1300 on chess.com blitz. It surprises me that more chess players haven’t crossed over to poker, where you still get that mental stimulation but can make a lot more money doing it without being in the top .01%.

Hey RtP, very nice to see you update your thread!!!

Very interesting, I sense lots of maturity has stemmed out in the past few years in regards to playing the game of pokerz professionally, amirite...


Very interesting insight I feel that my path in the poker road was atypical in the sense where I initially grinded cash games in a small town as the lone pro and was thus surrounded by only rec players while combining the latter with the more solitary activity of the online grind. In fact, some of my best friends were these said rec players and I did not hold a good impression of your typical local 2-5/5-10 grinder/wannabe ballers of the world and it wasn't until I started playing some HS live MTTs a few years back that I finally got to meet some more humble, smart and interesting pros (with a more extent life experience) that have climbed the stakes over the years!!!

Anyhow RtP, as always, all the best and it would be nice to have a poker update of how the past few months have been, both statistically and emotionally ; much love friend

hey friends


im turning 23 on 11/9 and i thought i would share my appreciation for a few guys. i’ll be on a mini adventure starting tomorrow though so will just do it now


random order ~ included is a post of theirs i enjoyed for entertainment

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Shipnickle




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Oladipo





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Aesah





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Squidface





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YGOChamp





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BenaBadBeat





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miamicheats





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All-InMclovin





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Browni3141





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Rickroll





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Jarretman





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TheSimonman





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Gobbledygeek





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Garick





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bbissick





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tgiggity





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Mr Spyutastic





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if anyone actually looked through all of the screenshots lmk how you liked them!


cheers mfs, hope you and your significant others are doing well

Ton of all star posters and well deserved shoutouts imo! Very cool idea digging up these posts and resharing.



Hope all is good with you RtP

thx man, appreciate the input

you as well!

omzg I made a shout out!

was a misclick tbh..

<3

happy veterans day mfs

long term follower of the thread and I'm happy for all the success you made. wondering how your journey has been for the past year since you haven't posted much on the thread about your poker journey? Would love to hear about your thoughts about going pro after college cause my situation is very similar to yours as I just recently graduated from university and am wondering if I should go pro or not? (have a poker bankroll of aprroximately 40k and my total profit in poker is around 100k. Mainly played live 2/5 and occasionaly 5/10 no limit holdem, as well as some extremely soft app games.) Wonder what's your outlook for the industry as a whole since I feel like the ceiling is very low.

Cute doggos!

Great pics dude, glad to see you experiencing cool adventures while maintaining sick volume!

thanks man.

I'll get back to you



appreciate you dude!

Random hand from recently. msnl online 6m.

vs reg no sample.

113bb. 3-handed. BvB


OTTH

Pre-flop: V 3 bb SB. Hero c A 10.

Flop (6bb): J 9 8. V check. Hero xb.

Turn (6bb): J 9 8 5. V 3bb. Hero r 15bb. V calls.

River (36bb): J 9 8 5 4. V checks. Hero jam 85bbe.

Rolled 80+ ott and otr if relevant. No timing tells from V.

I think population (msnl regs) over - folding 109, J10, Jxs hand class here vs this line otr .. with flop x range being weaker than it should be.

Think lots of regs snap betting top end value like Q10 otf .. despite this being a high freq x spot for SB in optimal.

We should have higher EV bluff candidates like Q7s , K7s type stuff otr.

I haven’t simmed this hand yet, thoughts, sims, data etc all welcome.

i think i messed up the original hh , used old one as template, should be good now?

Casually strolls back in like he never left. Welcome back man. Have skimmed this blog for therapy during tough times. Glad to see you're out there still getting it.

I don’t hate turn raise with Ad but feels like river should be a give up, not blocking calling range, blocking some auto folds on river

that said, I’m fine with overbluffing if villain has a pretty low WWSF

Welcome back sir

I agree with this. If I was the reg in SB typically this is a spot I'd call any pair in as I'm pretty sure a lot of players would overbluff as played when they xb flop and get blank riv. That said, from your perspective... not entirely sure people are overfolding here vs. this sizing but it is probably close.

Heuristically I would usually flat here and use this to bluff diamond rivers, but it looks ok. I would probably lean on KT for my raises, and potentially some of the trashy Txs we have. I think we will get snapped by JT here but we might get overfolds from some weaker segments.

That said I suck at bvb so who knows?

Hope the grind is treating you well.