I think it would be the best chance for him to make some money. A combination poker and life coaching stream. Epic lolz guaranteed.

OP, what's your gym routine like and what do you eat during a typical day?

Maybe the mrs could do consultant work afterhours to pay for your bankroll op? Passive income as well. Be a investor.

Sequels are rarely as good as the original.

This is like Rounders 2: Zynga Edition

OP, how do you plan on earning any kind of serious money for living expences/building up some savings and eventually moving out from your mom with the small stakes youre playing on your phone?

Also, in your first thread you talked about your friend and how easy it was to bink one of those 500K pr year jobs. You got lots of heat for that statement from several posters, but refused to change the statements about how easy it was. If it really was that easy, how come you havent got one of those jobs?

$50K a year is quite a low bar in Australia (at least in major cities like Melbourne). Minimum wage for a casual employee is $19.50 x 1.25 per hour, so if you work full time you're at $45K already. The only problem is you have to pull your thumb out of your arse, apply for jobs and then work full time. So that's 3 things stopping OP.

Second this. He's famous in these threads after all

Updates and job contemplation:

I was quite busy this weekend with real life stuff and didn't have too much time for poker. Alas, today is going to be a poker + gym day for me. It's been almost a week since I last went to the gym, which is completely unacceptable. So I will definitely go today.

On the topic of applying for jobs: I'm currently 50/50 on whether I should work and grind 60nl on the side, or just grind full-time.

The benefits of working seem to be:
1) Stable, guaranteed money.
2) Earn more than I could earn at stakes below 60nl.
3) Fill in the resume gap.
4) Less likely to burn out from too much poker.
5) Make everyone else happy. Normies such as my family seem to look down on poker and will probably be more proud of me if I work a "normal" job.

The disadvantages include:
1) Far less enjoyable.
2) Feelings of failure, since I'll be working a job that requires no skills and doesn't use my brain at all.
3) Capped income. I'll never get more than $20/hr and there's no potential to go on a heater.
4) Growth seems almost impossible. I spent 4.5 years at my last pizza job and never got promoted.
5) I could potentially earn more at 60nl if I can win at 10bb/100 and play 250 hands per hour, since that will be $15/hr USD which is $22.50/hr AUD.
6) Cost of living will go up. I'll have to pay for transport to and from work and I'll be eating out more. I also have to get my phone fixed since the microphone is broken, so that's another cost.

I thought I should address this because literally everyone is telling me to get a job, including: my wife, my family, my friends, and people in this thread. And I just want everyone to know that I'm not closed-minded about this. I am putting serious thought into it. But there are more disadvantages than people are willing to admit.

Probably if I start downswinging, that will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. But for now, at least for the next few days, I will continue to focus on just poker and the gym.

You shouldn't live your life for others.

We all know this isn't true. Maybe in your head it is since you've put a thought into it but there's 0% chance you get a job unless you're forced into it.

Weird how applying to school was never broached in that post despite the helplessness you'd feel at a job

The devil on my shoulder says that you have a negative net worth, have never once been able to support yourself through poker, live with your mother, clearly have some sort of depression going on, and your wife hates your weakness. You should aspire to be a normie instead of whatever it is that you are.

The angel says that everyone else's opinion doesn't matter and you should do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. Which, I guess people could argue it hurts your wife, but she knew what she was getting herself into. But I mean it's clear that poker isn't your desire. You think that poker is an easy way out of your situation, but you don't have the passion for it that you'd need in order to make any semblance of a living off of it.

Do you plan to live off of $60NL? If so, then that should be considered "real life stuff". In your very first sentence you alluded to poker being a secondary thing. If that is your mentality then you should get a "normal" job, as you put it.

6bet -

It’s ridiculous for you to go thru a huge list of pros and cons when....you haven’t even proven you can win at ANY stake for any period of time.

LOL at feeling like a failure for having a normal job, you don’t have what’s required to beat poker, but you’re going to go for it, obviously fail, and then what? You’ll have to go get a job anyways.

You’re kidding yourself with poker because you have to work hard to get good at that, too, you have to work hard at being disciplined, you are unable to both those things.

Just get a job dude. honestly it’s way easier than poker, and for a lazy person, you should do what’s easy. It’s ****** depressing that your poor wife is living with you at your moms house like you’re a high schooler because you can’t sack up and work.

Pretty much this. Poker is just a temporary escape from reality,so he can be lazy and dont work.

Like it has been said-100 percent 6bet wont get a job unless he gets forced into it with literally no other options.

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Maybe u shouldnt have quit your job right before you went pro? Then again renting a car to be an uber driving is probably one of the dumbest ideas in the history of man kind.

Mid session update

I've been grinding for about 3hrs so far and I did things a bit differently today. I started off with some MTTs. I played a $5 NLHE tourney, which actually cost $15 with the rebuy and addon, and I came 14th place for ~$40. Would've been ~$750 if I came 1st, and I had the 4th biggest stack, but I 3bet jammed over a deep-stacked nit with JJ and he called me off with QQ and held. My jam was a bit questionable, given how nitty this guy was. Like he literally only played 1 hand in the past hour and he showed AA that time. I probably could've just folded JJ to his open raise. But oh well.

I also played a $10 6card PLO MTT, which cost me $20 with the addon, and I was the stone cold bubble, coming 31st when top 30 get paid. I had 4bbs UTG and a slightly above average hand, so I potted it (almost a jam). Honestly though, I probably should've just folded pre because I definitely would've made the money just by folding my way past the bubble. My logic though with tourneys is that I'm usually playing for 1st, not playing to min cash, so I don't usually nit up on the bubble like other players do.

So after a couple of disappointing tourneys, basically breaking even when I was in a decent position to win big, I started playing cash games. I initially sat down at 4 tables of 60nl, but as the tables began to get short-handed, I left and replaced them with 100nl tables. Soon I was playing 3 tables of 100nl and 1 table of 60nl. Slightly risky for a $1200 bankroll, but I figured it was worth a shot.

I played for a bit, winning on some tables and losing on others, but ultimately making a profit. The bankroll is up to $1330 now.

The biggest pot I played was this:

100nl, 9-handed, $190 effective

Villain opens $4 MP
HJ calls $4
Hero 3bets $18 BTN with AKo
Villain calls $18
HJ calls $18

Flop ($55.50, 3ways) is A32r

Villain checks
HJ checks
Hero bets $14.50
Villain raises to $43.50
HJ folds
Hero calls $43.50

Turn ($142.50, HU) is A328r

Villain bets $55
Hero jams $128.50



As for the gym: the weather has been terrible today. Rain and thunderstorms. So even though the gym is only 15 mins walk from my house, I've been procrastinating going so far. But I do plan on going soon tonight.

dat high level, careful logical analysis

If I hadn’t followed the entire first thread I would have said the entire last post could not be real. 6 card PLO MTTs and moving up to 100nl...

Why not 1knl?

OP, I wish you all the best but I dread to think how many hours I will waste reading this GLGL

Oladipo et al, you're doing it wrong. OP only wants to hear about his sublime greatness and won't reply to the haters, naysayers and party poopers!

Hey 6bet, sick win bruh! Keep pushing and you'll be at 10k BR in no time! NL200 shot next session imo. Sky's the limit, homie

I try to go 3-4 times per week and I try to eat as much food as possible, with emphasis on protein.

In reality, sometimes I skip days and some days I don't eat enough to put on weight/muscle.

Not returning the car would've meant paying several hundred dollars in car rent whilst I was in Thailand and not using it.

Surely you can see the difference between a $10 MTT (less than 1% of my bankroll) and playing 1knl?

Thank you!

So I just finished up at the gym. I'm so happy I went today. That rush of endorphins you get afterwards is like equivalent to winning a huge poker pot that increases your bankroll by 50%.

Going to shower, eat, watch some netflix with my wife, then get back on the grind and put some serious volume in at 60nl.

I can of course see the difference but playing a new game unrelated to your goals at the same time as playing multiple cash games with c. 10% of your roll on each of the tables is laughable.

Surely you see that?

I’m actually rooting for you because I don’t enjoy seeing anyone failing in life but sometimes it’s like you’re actually trying to.

I love how you said MTTs were too high variance in a previous post, then you go and play a 6 card PLO MTT, probably one of the highest variance games out there.

You may say "well it's only 1 MTT, 1% of my bankroll" but we all know that you'll make a habit of playing them. Or dabbling in a bit of blackjack or roulette.

Not to mention 6b sucks at 4c PLO. Not a prayer of winning at 6c.

Good lord, I forgot about the PLO-hands in the old thread, epic times lmao