Hi everyone! I'm 33, have a 7 year old son, on my second marriage. My first poker game in a casino/cardroom was in 2021. Ran pretty good. In August 2023, I decided to leave public accounting after 9 years to play live poker. My main game is 5/5, usually with a 10/20 double straddle.
My journey in professional poker so far:
Currently up $71,167 after 456 hours, $156/hour.
Didn't play much in December as I got married. Yesterday, I played an insane 1/3 semi private game that had double straddles going to 1/3/10/20, sometimes up to 40 and 80. One hand a tilted recreational player went all in blind for 200, action went call (pro), call (rec), hero with AcTc jams 2.2k effective, pro folds, rec TANK CALLS WITH AKo. Run it twice and I get scooped. Down 4.5k at one point in 1/3. Climb up to being down 1.5k, switch to 2/5 after game breaks (smaller game than the 1/3). Up and down, but about even after a few hours (still stuck 1.5k).
Meanwhile, a private 10/25/50 game has also been running all day. At one point it was 5 pros and 3 recs with several 20k+ stacks. I could have hopped in, but honestly it was too many pros and I didn't feel like losing 5k in one hand. Well, game turned into 1 pro and 3 recs. I hop into the 10/25/50 game after getting tilted over silly antics at the 2/5 table like the **** reg that I am. Immediately run like a god with a ton of bluffs either getting through or getting there, hitting set after set, trips after trips, etc, and at one point I am up 22k for the day.
After 14 hours in total including the 1/3 and 2/5, but maybe 4 hours of the big game, I am up 20k. Ask if anyone wants to flip. Rec wants to flip for 5k. Brings up last time I flipped for stacks it was for 2.7k and I won to get unstuck and now he needs 5k to get unstuck. It has to be 5k, and it has to be from me! I reluctantly agree. Lose the 5k flip, but still up 15k and call it a night at 12:45am, so still feeling good.
Pro tip: when you're stuck and tilted from losing in 1/3, go play 10/25/50.