Hey guys, I’m a relatively unknown live grinder who goes by AdvantagePlayer. This thread is mainly to track my progress for my online results, but who knows what it may entail later down the road.
Background:
I started poker when I was around 16 on FullTilt and Stars. Post black-friday, I was a “winning” weekend-reg (while going to college) playing $1/3 NL live. I wouldn’t make the jump to $2/5 NL until a couple years later. During this time, I would pick up card counting blackjack. In the next few years, I would bust/run up several bankrolls from poker and dump it back into blackjack (or vice versa) playing a very high RoR strategy (I was young). These bankrolls would probably range from $5k to $15k iirc and be 99% of my networth at the time. Eventually my blackjack EV would cap out around $300/hour (as of 2019), which resulted in most places banning me and leading me back to poker.
For the last several years, I’ve been grinding $2/5 NL live, but probably around 1k hours each year if even that (I played too much dota back then). During this, I’ve taken my shots at higher stakes online and live, playing stakes near $7/14 (asian currency converted to usd) and $15/30 NL. Unfortunately I ran pretty bad each time. I remember live streaming about my worst year on IG about ~2-3 years ago, losing over $100k of my net worth and had to restart from $2/5 NL all over again. Luckily I had a quick succession of heaters after one of my worst downswings; with a 152nd place in the WSOP main event as the public highlight for $60k.
By the time Covid took over 2020; I had already experienced massive swings in my bankroll once again. In the beginning, I was fearful of the idea of busto at the rate I was losing at (like one month losing $40-50k with 100% myself and this downswing continued for a few months). Bittersweetly to be responsible and sane, I sold my action and out of nowhere, quickly scooped back $60K+ in a matter of weeks. I’m sure I missed some timeline events in there, but you can inquire for better details. Since then, I’ve been running it up and moving up the stakes aiming for an annual salary I never dreamed of in prior years.
Challenge/Goal:
To transition from a bread and butter $2/5 NL live pro of ~5 years to winning $500k/year from whale hunting. It'd also be cool if this thread became proof that anyone from low stakes can still make it to the nosebleeds even in today’s environment.
https://www.instagram.com/advantageplayer/