i was a pretty average mostly rakeback grinder for years. i came back last year for a few months and easily won at 12bb at 25nl, 9bb at 50nl and did 4bb at 100nl over a large sample. I only quit because i hated it and my job/crypto pays way more.
I never studied a day in my life. Everyone that i know that came back had the same ease. Micros are still SUPER soft.
Rapidesh barely winning on bodog, the softest site around, is really the epitome of the micro forum. He'll never succeed even if a top pro coaches him fulltime 8hrs per day. Its like a big dong, you either have it or you dont.
Month was bad, ran bad, volume was low, only 36k reg tables, got into a downswing and it affected me quite a bit. Even though downswings make me play worse, at least they make me play more and study more. I'm really more motivated to play, will just take days off when I'm obviously playing poorly.
Back to nl25, but I believe it won't take long until I'm back at nl50.Level of play in there is weak, people obv play decent in the easiest spots, but I see big EV punts in a lot of spots, not sure if population punishes them properly though.
Learned a lot this month, coach is insanely good, I'm also studying with a group of friends from metagame and I'm learning a lot, specially theory.
Hmmm. Losing 9bb/100 redline, breakeven blueline. Games are soft for you?
Some wild stuff ITT. Had some time to read like 33% of it. OP seems a nice enough guy who is getting hate for being lazy lol, unless I missed him being a d-bag. Guess I’ll follow for entertainment if anything, gl OP
Point is. I like many put 0 effort and can still beat micros pretty easily.
Rapidesh and his micro forum warriors put thousands of hours of study time and can't even stay at 50nl playing 2-3 tables concentrating hard.
Poker you either have it or you don't. Then after that there's levels of 'having it" and theres the amount of work you put in.
Rapidesh>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Random db talking **** and making unsubstantiated claims.
Even if his results are usually disappointing, at least he has the balls to post them and is very transparent. Where is your graph? Post it or what you claim never happened and is just a lie.
this is the ultimate proof that in poker you either have it or you dont
Most of us that were pros with 0 studying 6-10 years ago can easily come back and do good at 50nl-100nl if not 200nl with 0 effort while people spending 2-6hrs per day studying can barely surive at 25nl after over a decade of effort.
And what exactly are you accomplishing by coming into this person's blog and insulting them? Such a toxic attitude. Let them be.
And what exactly are you accomplishing by coming into this person's blog and insulting them? Such a toxic attitude. Let them be.
Doing a public service to hopefully wake a man child playing 30hrs of poker a month while living in his mom's basement and calling himself a pro when he hasnt even won 10k at the micros in a decade.
If people would stop enabling him, he could probably start to build a career or find something he can live off in the future before its too late.
Doing a public service to hopefully wake a man child playing 30hrs of poker a month while living in his mom's basement and calling himself a pro when he hasnt even won 10k at the micros in a decade.
If people would stop enabling him, he could probably start to build a career or find something he can live off in the future before its too late.
lol, I can only assume that you either a) don’t even remotely care about OP in any way, and just want to **** on someone else to boost your own ego, or b) are so socially inept that you legitimately have no clue how you’re actually coming across. If you truly want OP to consider what you’re saying, this is probably the nut worst way to do it
Some of the better advice I’ve received in my life is: “nobody cares how right you are if you’re an ******* about it”
Doing a public service to hopefully wake a man child playing 30hrs of poker a month while living in his mom's basement and calling himself a pro when he hasnt even won 10k at the micros in a decade.
If people would stop enabling him, he could probably start to build a career or find something he can live off in the future before its too late.
Some of the better advice I’ve received in my life is: “nobody cares how right you are if you’re an ******* about it”
I know that is true for most low intellect people but i am doing it anyways for Karma and entertainment. If he choses to keep ignoring what i and others have been telling him for years, then its up to him to ruin his life pursuing a game that he does not have what it takes to become great at.
He and the rest of the micro forum with join dates of 2010 and under are the same as every character in movies where the guy is 45 years old still trying to make it with his band while working at a fastfood.
I know that is true for most low intellect people but i am doing it anyways for Karma and entertainment. If he choses to keep ignoring what i and others have been telling him for years, then its up to him to ruin his life pursuing a game that he does not have what it takes to become great at.
He and the rest of the micro forum with join dates of 2010 and under are the same as every character in movies where the guy is 45 years old still trying to make it with his band while working at a fastfood.
lol, that's true for plenty of people with high intellect too bud, you're just emotionally underdeveloped. Has more to do with narcissism and a lack of empathy more than anything else, and it's simple as most of us don't want to be around people like that
I don't necessarily think you're entirely wrong either, because it does seem to me like OP might be missing some piece of the successful formula, at least at present. However, other people have pretty much said what you said, but did so with tact and finesse, since they weren't doing it for an ego boost
The are also plenty of pro and semi-pro players in the strat forums, but OP literally never posts there lol
yeah i mean on one hand the ser dude isn't wrong. i think rapidesh's ego or mental game or whatever you want to call it is the sticking point he refuses to accept / acknlowedge. on the other hand lets get serious. you didnt come into his thread to relentlessly troll him like an ******* because you care about him and his wellbeing; its just schadenfreude at someone not succeeding at poker. theres alot of that on this forum tbh, v odd behavior.
I know that is true for most low intellect people but i am doing it anyways for Karma and entertainment. If he choses to keep ignoring what i and others have been telling him for years, then its up to him to ruin his life pursuing a game that he does not have what it takes to become great at.
He and the rest of the micro forum with join dates of 2010 and under are the same as every character in movies where the guy is 45 years old still trying to make it with his band while working at a fastfood.
Why are you so invested? ItÂ’s not even a one off comment, youÂ’re into a full blown convo about some random man on the internet thatÂ’s spanning days, behaviour is abit odd
this is the ultimate proof that in poker you either have it or you dont
Most of us that were pros with 0 studying 6-10 years ago can easily come back and do good at 50nl-100nl if not 200nl with 0 effort while people spending 2-6hrs per day studying can barely surive at 25nl after over a decade of effort.
In the last 6-10 years solvers and training sites like upswing/RIO somewhat bridged the gap between those with natural talent and those without. The average skill level increased a ton. I highly doubt someone who didn't play for 6-10 years is gonna do too well at even 50nl, never mind 200nl, with 0 effort.
Doing a public service to hopefully wake a man child playing 30hrs of poker a month while living in his mom's basement and calling himself a pro when he hasnt even won 10k at the micros in a decade.
If people would stop enabling him, he could probably start to build a career or find something he can live off in the future before its too late.
You don't know his history of P&L. That is not a true statement. Poker has a different place in different people's lives, you could use some perspective.
Played well, played a lot, studied more than last month, sadly ran pretty bad, played nl25 until half of the month, then went back to nl50. Now I'm adding 600 hands of 10z and 25z in the morning just to get the leaderboard money and to focus on playing the team's strat, I was deviating too much from it. Made around $1k this month with rakeback, got lucky on the leaderboard and got 50% rb this month!
Flop:(25 BB, 3 players) 2 3 4 SB checks, MP bets 11.88 BB, Hero calls 11.88 BB, SB raises to 29 BB, MP raises to 92 BB and is all-in, Hero raises to 93.2 BB and is all-in, SB calls 42.54 BB and is all-in
Turn:(280.54 BB, 3 players) 6
River:(280.54 BB, 3 players) 5
Spoiler:
MP shows A 3 (Straight, Six High)
Main Pot [239.62 BB]: (Pre 28%, Flop 30%, Turn 10%)
Side Pot#1 [40.92 BB]: (Pre 33%, Flop 36%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows K K (Straight, Six High)
Main Pot [239.62 BB]: (Pre 58%, Flop 22%, Turn 22%)
Side Pot#1 [40.92 BB]: (Pre 67%, Flop 64%, Turn 86%)
SB shows 3 2 (Straight, Six High)
Main Pot [239.62 BB]: (Pre 13%, Flop 48%, Turn 67%)
I always aim for 5bb/100, I believe it's very likely my winrate in the last 2 years, I table select a lot, so it's possible to maintain that. Stars is tougher than bodog though, also I have my sn, so can't get away with many crazy plays as I did before.
Playing vs lots of regs from Brazil, Ukraine and Argentina, also from east europe, the player pool got tougher than it was in 2019. It's way harder to play vs someone who is fighting to survive, so they do their best, study more.
Yeah, it was a reg, tbh his call makes sense vs some players, but vs a competent reg it's very bad.
Yeah, just read it, boss' posts are really good, I read them all. I agree with him, tbh last year I wasn't a professional, slacked a lot, but it all changed when I joined the team, got my motivation back, joined a study group, I study at least 6h/week (still low, but better than before, which was 0).
I know I'm a good poker player, I know theory very well, exploits, I'm competent at the game, but I'm a terrible poker professional. That's what held me back a lot, the only period that I've done well was when I was with my old boss, he taught me how to be a good poker pro, but lost it sometime ago and that's what I was looking to find when I joined the team.
Will keep working hard and living a healthy life, I believe I'm on a good track now, gotta compare less with other poker players' results and focus on my career, everyone's journey is different, everyone has a different challenge to surpass.
Pretty obvious that poker talent is a real thing. How else can you explain that BERRI SWEET is the best HU player in every single format. For some reason I doubt that he just studies more than anyone else
So I actually agree with the troll in this thread to high degree. But I do think that something like Saulo's CFP can make monkeys reach $50-$100k annually. I do think such CFP will inhibit the top talents though, so it's important to recognise how hopeless your poker talent is, and realise what your limitation is
Pretty obvious that poker talent is a real thing. How else can you explain that BERRI SWEET is the best HU player in every single format. For some reason I doubt that he just studies more than anyone else
So I actually agree with the troll in this thread to high degree. But I do think that something like Saulo's CFP can make monkeys reach $50-$100k annually. I do think such CFP will inhibit the top talents though, so it's important to recognise how hopeless your poker talent is, and realise what your limitation is
Mental game and quick adaptation is king on HU and it seems berri is insanely good on those things, he is also applying plo knowledge that can be translated to nlhe. Some people are more lucky than others, like Saulo said, but it's not a big deal imo, one can still be successful even in very bad circumstances.
Pretty obvious that poker talent is a real thing. How else can you explain that BERRI SWEET is the best HU player in every single format. For some reason I doubt that he just studies more than anyone else
So I actually agree with the troll in this thread to high degree. But I do think that something like Saulo's CFP can make monkeys reach $50-$100k annually. I do think such CFP will inhibit the top talents though, so it's important to recognise how hopeless your poker talent is, and realise what your limitation is
From what i read berri is playing a lot of poker. If you are ultra competitive and you play a lot of poker then it is difficult to fail. People underestimate what competitive means and they think battling at nl25 are some kind of endbosses. We also dont know how berri studies. What you are saying has no foundation