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Originally Posted by Kiljusieppo
Can you keep the pension from military and get another job?
Would be also awesome .
Yes I can, but that's plan B for now; I still hope I can make poker my 2nd career. But I'm in no rush - I have 2 years of disability payments, which gets clawed back if I get a job, so I really do not want to have a job during this 2 year period.
Live poker is going like #&$*@ so far though. We're down $1930 now. I'm sure I'm making some mistakes and losing more than I should, but holy hell I've ran horrendously in my all-in pots, including a $1600 doozy in my last session, set of TT vs set of AA. Not $1600 loss; $800 loss in a $1600 pot, but still, on top of all the other runbad, ouch. Anyway, after that day I decided I needed a good break from the live grind and went back to studying GTO Wizard daily and playing Zoom 10 just to rebuild confidence and also improve my game technically.
Not bad, considering Zoom 10 players are far stronger than live 1/3 players, so I'm confident that technically I have the skills to beat live 1/3 for a decent winrate. I've definitely still got a lot to learn for properly adjusting to live dynamics, playing most pots multi-way, etc. But I don't think my goal of grinding 1/3 and eventually 2/5 for income is that ridiculous, especially if I keep studying as much as I am now.
I used to strongly prefer live over online as a rec playing 4 - 6 hour sessions on some evenings and weekends, but after just a few weeks of high volume live play, I'm finding I enjoy the pace of 1-tabling Zoom a lot more than the frequent multi-hour card-deadness of live poker, and the ability to break up the daily grind into several 1 or 2 hour sessions. I think I'm going to make a goal of beating Zoom 50 before heading back to the casino.
Live grinder friend of mine says it's basically impossible and that he knows winners at 25/50 live who can't beat Zoom 50. We'll see about that!