cliffs bout me:

20 years old
18 did lawschool for one year, played some poker before but homegames/ random ****/ got introduced to NLHE by my gf's family where they had adapted it into a drinking game when i was +- 15 / 16 by my 19th bday (Augsut 2009) i realised law school wasnt really for me and i decided to take a year off and browse the job market

shortly after sep 2009 i made my first 10$ depo online, and did a 2 buy in and go kinda system for half a year and ran it up / lost it all till it hit me this is not how u win at poker

Feb 2010 depod 50$ for the LAST time (lost +- 500$ over the months before that) and decided to start learning more about the game, ran good (ldo fish on a heater)

June 2010: realised that the job market sux if u dont have a higher education, and decided to reinlist into university, cashed out a ****TON for tuition fees, books, and spent alot on a trip to spain with some of my friends (who have robust parents, ****in lawschool kids with lawyer/judge parents lol ) cashed out rest for pocket money kinda

End September 2010: left myself with 1K on stars and 1K on ftp gonna play the 20s, not as much worried about moving up fast enough as im more worried to trying to get in good volume and to improve my game (iow: ill move up when i feel like i will deffo have a good edge at the next level)

ps: my friend plays the 100$+ Husngs : reg , turb, ST's and crushes there pretty hard grinding out consecutive 10K+ months for the last 8 months or so , (i wont mention his screennames or w.e because i dont really want him involved in this, this is my goal and i dont wanna talk about other people too much) hes currently gonna move away to some exotic location till end of january if i crush 50 or 100s by then like him (read 4K+ months ) i might move with him for a month or so and take a month of school

however: skillwise im not worried at all, i feel like ive develloped a good mindset towards poker and am willing to learn alot, but with school coming in the picture starting monday (ive finally realised how important a good education is SOCIETY WISE to me it means nothing, i think i can achieve the same things with self educating instead of following a predetermined and by the government organised course for x years, but job market wise it IS important, i dont want to be 'that guy' that gives up on everything to attempt pro poker with no backup plan at all so i decided ill just slow and steady grind on next to my education, and if my poker "career'' takes off then reevaluate )

im worried about volume, i love playing reg speed HUSNGs disadvantages: less fish, they play slower (ldo) and therefor less volume also with school i feel like i wont schedule everything great and there is what this thread is for


okaythose cliffs where ****ing long sorry for that lol ill update daily/weekly depending on how im feeling / if i got anything important to report

drop out imo, and play professionally good luck anyways, my friend did this when he was 17 now he plays 5k plo and is up 500k lifetime, he is 20 now fwiw.

nah not gonna drop out to be making 1K/month lmao

you could if you drop out

fwiw im not even thinking about dropping out right now, ideally id want to finish my education and in the mean time move up stakes / increase my poker bankroll

everything else is just wishfull thinking and a waste of my energy imho

dont see why you need to even think about dropping out, your young its easy to devote hours a day into poker and school, gl with this

exactly, i mean, i tried dropping out and getting a normal job and i really realised i was young and dumb to drop out, and am happy i spent the majority of the money i grinded together on a second chance at a better education and a better future, if i reach my goal, i will probably be v tempted to drop out or take another year off and travel some, because i love travelling but nr 1 on my mind right now is just getting that degree, being SOMEONE according to society my peers and my parents, and if poker threats me nicely and i do get to climb up the limits and meet nice people, then id love to give it a try because i love this game i absolutely do, but AFTER i graduated (its only 3 years eitherway so kinda speedcourse ) , but if it doesnt, then at least i will have my degree.


anyone has any thoughts on how possible this is? (crushing 100s by end Jan.)

i have 13% roi at 20s atm fwiw

gl gl fastcolt hopefully it won't take me that long to make my way to the 50's .

ty ive read your challenge gl to you as well sir ^^

just did some coaching with bpmst2 on stars 34$ HU level just trying to move up, found it very enlightening and i thought it was pretty awesome frankly, he also seems to charge a very fair rate and is a really cool guy

we ended up playing 3 turbos and me watching one of his games + some side discussion

won 2, lost flip in last one unfortunately else coaching wouldve been paid for :P


really feeling good and confident about the future atm

no major changes tho yet with buying some coaching and playing a few mtts

PS: WTF IS UP WITH HU GRINDERS BURNING MONEY IN MTTS haha

i bet i lose 1/3d of my monthly HU profits back in MTTs and i have a sick good mtt coach even

but ah well that one ship will bring it all back


anyone else has some experience with bpmst2 , i forgot to ask what his 2p2 name is

roll at 2050 something end of this day so i guess overall pretty good im up 50$ or something cant complain right :d didnt play much but spend alot of time whoring 2p2 and working on theory **** so also pretty happy hopefully i can get some volume in tmw and go mad and have a 15 bi day or something :d

did some serious hours of giving coaching and talking about poker with my first of 2 assigned students of the coaching tree today

and therefor slacked hard as in putting volume myself gonna start grinding hard now gogoogg
upp 40$ for the day but yeah