Good luck dude. I'm doing the full-time grind myself, starting online, branching to live. crush it.

Hey thank you so much! good luck on your journey as well.

Calling it a little early for the afternoon sesh. Wasn’t really feeling it so decided to book a small lost and come back later tonight.

27.52 hrs so far for the week.

Broke even today. Games were very dry for a Friday night.

Here are my week results so far.

Last night even tho it was a break even session. I was able to meet johnnievibes love watching his YouTube channel for very fun poker content. Very down to earth guy. Shout out to him!

So just woke up it’s 10:19am need to shower at my grandmas then gonna meet up with Charmaine at 12 gonna go to this place in Pacifica call “gorilla BBQ” supposed to be fire. Then I’ll head to the casino from 6pm-3am talk soon

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb6qls

Here is a video of Gorilla BBQ

Place was so fire my god.

You smoke that stuff and go in there and munch out huh?

By stuff you mean Weed than for sure love me some trees.

Question for everyone. I have played 730hrs so far if my live poker career with a win rate of 8.29bb/100

What’s a good sample? And what win rate should a winning player expect at a 1/1/2 200cap with ridiculous rake.

Sup everyone so last night I lost -300 which makes me +360 for the week. Going to take Sunday and Monday off and will be back Tuesday. Made a bad play where I raised limps out of the small blind with 56hh and double barreled jammed when I picked up a 8+out draw. Just was the wrong person to bluff and honestly is one of the hands that I was kinda mad at myself for,but it’s ok advertising dollars to this OG since he’s there a lot. See you all Tuesday.



Results for the week. 35.27hrs. +360

Iso raising out of the small blind with marginal hands is a good way to get crushed imo

I agree messed up the hand completely. Play works against tight passive not degen old men lol.

play tight out of the blinds. no need to put yourself in bad spots OOP in bloated pots. the button goes round and round. stay patient and create/play big pots in position.

also, your win rate looks good. the true test of how good you are relative to the player pool at your stakes is how often you are the most dominant player at the table. I'd say 700 hours is a good start but it's not definitive by any means. A good way to test it out is to take occasional shots at higher stakes and see how you are compared to the rest of the players at the table. 3/5 is way different than 1/2. In my experience, there are no REALLY good players at 1/2. Even crushers are only making 15-25/hour and you're not really going to become a great aggressive player at these stakes.

700 hours x 30 hands/hr is 21000 hands. Some online players think 100k is even a small sample, so take that fwiw. But the thing is you don't need to compare your winrate to other peoples' winrates. You'll know when you are doing well by how few mistakes you make and how big your good day looks like.

Hey thanks for this very great comment. I’m too nervous to take a shot at 3/5 cause of my past issues with BRM. So waiting till I have 15k. I agree with everything you said. Patience is definitely the key at these stakes. Thank you again for your comment in the thread cause I think people not only me can benefit from it

I disagree with this (the first sentence, anyways) very strongly.

@Spirit, I’m not sure how much of this thread (or prior threads) you have read. The OP does not need to prove his skills at a higher stake. The OP needs MONEY. His bankroll is his entire liferoll, and is probably too small for a “professional” at this point for 1/2 anyways.

@Rub (regarding your win rate) - I would honestly not worry about that. I’m not exactly sure what a good win rate would be over that sample size, but it literally doesn’t matter.

The most important thing I would suggest is VOLUME. If you’re going to try to make a living at the smallest stakes of live poker (which VERY FEW people can actually do and live a decent life) then you need to play a LOT, in order to push your edge over a longer period of time. There aren’t too many people that are working towards “the dream” and are putting in 35 hour work weeks.

I have followed the last handful of your threads, and I believe I have been generally positive and non-toxic for the most part. The worst-case scenario (which almost happened a couple months ago, for the record) is that you go broke and don’t have the funds to be able to go back to school.

Don’t take this the wrong way. Just trying to open your eyes to the fact that if you are trying to be a 1/2 “pro”, you should be putting in a lot more than 35 hours to be worth it. Also, probably shouldn’t be raising 65 suited from the small blind, but I digress. Good luck man

Rake is killer, that's a very good reason to move up asap. It's better to play short higher than stay low. Otherwise I'd agree with being more careful with brm.

Hey how’s it going Sam! Love your constructive criticism how many hours should I be putting in every week? 40-50? 60? Thanks again for your comment always well thought out and very in depth . No more raising 56 suited from the blinds lmao. Tight is right and just like spirit said the button goes round and round.

I agree that volume is what’s going to get me to the next level. The rake is very high at lucky chances but I believe if I stick it out I can make 15k and move up to 3/5 I’m even thinking waiting till 20k. The variance

I rather not play short at 3/5 so I rather wait till I have 15-20k I believe it’s just the smartest play. Thanks for your comment

56s is standard iso oop online, I dont think it should be a problem live

I have no idea. I realize everyone has other commitments they need to do (it seems like you have family and girlfriend) so I suppose you need to just figure out what works for you. If 35 works for you, then go for it.

For sure on ignition If you want to raise vs UTG 3bet in Sb with hands like T9s,98s,87s76s56s should be fine online. But at live 1/1/2 at luckys, it isn’t best to play bloated pots OOP. Rather just be playing very tight now from the blinds.

Online is a different arena. I’m 3betting like MP in the SB with hands like T9s,98s,87s,76s

Or even vs CO 3bet SB for example these are just examples but you get the idea. Online these plays work very well. Live I do think it’s better to have a tighter strategy from the blinds since people aren’t folding very often.

I mean isoing limpers, not 3betting. Get HU with fish, cbet dry board print moneys, or have them fold pre. If anythig goes wrong you flop a good draw 20% of the time.


Also those sc are not making money 3betting oop vs hj utg in general

In position is the main thing here. Out of the blinds I think it’s slightly-ev at live 1/1/2 at my casino

Also it’s very hard to get to a flop HU it really requires you to raise very very large and since the pot is so huge they just never fold. Usually you’re either jamming flop or turn because SPR is so damm low. Suited connectors work best when they are 100bb deep+ since they have the capability of winning huge pots by the river. But when SPR is so low it’s hard for me to realize my equity. Usually requires me to flop very well or pick up about 20% equity on the turn and shoving. Or even shoving flop since if they flop a piece in a big pot they aren’t folding.

I Have An Idea

So made a youtube channel specifically for this forum. since i live in my car the internet connection isn't the best but i was thinking i can record like 25min session clips. And you guys can watch and maybe help me get better. See things i can't etc.

check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfk0lOao1mQ&t=2s

we will see how i feel in the morning i am very stoned at the moment. Just experimenting lol

So played a bunch online today 25nl zone and 1 MTT. ended up banking the MTT so thats nice. ill be back at lucky tomorrow to start my session. talk soon.