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View Poll Results: SO WHAT DO YOU THINK IS A REALISTIC ANNUAL EARNING OF AN "A" PLAYER GRINDING $1/$2NLHE?

LESS THAN $22K

395 12.72%

$22K TO $28K

454 14.62%

$28K TO $34K

505 16.26%

$34K TO $40K

528 17.00%

$40K TO $46K

295 9.50%

MORE THAN $46K

929 29.91%

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04-25-2024 , 12:42 PM

#17226

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by marknfw

How are you liking the Tesla? Best purchase ever or semi regret it?

Shd hv bought 3. Love it.
HavenÂ’t paid for any electric outside of road trips in 2 years. HavenÂ’t had 1 issue. Wd never go back. ItÂ’s everything u can do w an iPhone in ur car. Plus it can drive itself. Like that I can watch utubes videos tik toks Netflix movies Hulu tv play games w remote controllers, browse web, Spotify etc when boss lady is in Target. The Acceleration and Megaphone to yell at people, or concert. The No maintenance. It all makes driving fun.

DonÂ’t regret pickleball/bball court while we at @njpw..

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04-25-2024 , 12:46 PM

#17227

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by rickroll

i don't think that's how it happened

nobody was saying you couldn't do it, they were asking why you were doing it, ie you were posting about fainting and stuff like that - something you never really had clear reasons for other than "i want to do it"

you also gained it all back immediately, which many posters said would happen because you weren't changing anything long term, just taking a brief starvation diet, so it's not even like you really wanted it, otherwise you would have made efforts to stay at that weight

Wanted to see if I cd push myself to do it. Thats the only reason I can gv ya. It’s nothing deeper than that.
Rest of what u said is untrue. Therefore; many posters were wrong. 154.3 gained 8 back because I had nothing to prove to my mind anymore. I stil bet even money at 130 lol

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04-25-2024 , 04:14 PM

#17228

moremore

adept

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 1,016

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Originally Posted by ButterflySymmetry

easily outplayable

Much bigger turn bet for me.

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04-25-2024 , 04:36 PM

#17229

bahbahmickey

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 15,297

Hero, how have you not paid for electricity for the car (outside of road trips?) for 2 years? I know there are charging stations at the casino, but where else are you going that has free charging?

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04-25-2024 , 04:46 PM

#17230

Alpha Fish

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,835

lol 130 is a joke, you can cut that much water in a week from 155 though it's not going to be fun

sub 100 I'll bet you

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04-25-2024 , 11:07 PM

#17231

meshanti

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,832

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Originally Posted by NJPW

A shame you didn't have a thread when you had $40k where probably a couple dozen posters told you what a dumb idea all your **** was with poker, a court, and of course, a dog that turned into two dogs. All haters, right?

You know how to build. You just don't want to put in the work because #semiretired. You have a job where you make $38/hr, can work double the hours you already are, and after a month or two, give yourself a promotion to 2/5 and then scale back the hours...but nah, no way to build, it'll just b a slow bleed.

Dude was a millionaire. All he had to do was invest most of it to make $70 K/year passively, easily. He could've spent the rest of the year playing poker part time and made $100 k/no prob.

Yet, he wants a participation trophy because he's "semi-retired"?

He has an overabundance of unearned confidence.

In fact, he has have not gained any wealth since he sold the melody!

All that being said, please keep the thread going, just to satisfy my morbid curiosity.

Liberals, lol.

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04-26-2024 , 12:18 AM

#17232

Alpha Fish

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,835

technically if he just kept ENPH even with the downturn would still be sitting on about $13M

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04-26-2024 , 12:53 AM

#17233

submersible

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 1,615

idk man enjoy reading the blog but honestly think you should just get a job. what does treading water until the end of the year actually do for you?

doing nothing for the next 40 years or whatever fantasy you have about retirement / semi retirement isn't really a great life anyways. i mean look at all the side quests you've given yourself this year out of boredom / avoidance (pickleball, weight loss, running, day trader, low stakes grinder, probably others).

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04-30-2024 , 02:10 AM

#17234

18000rpm

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,396

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Originally Posted by submersible

idk man enjoy reading the blog but honestly think you should just get a job.

Working for any man is clearly beneath Ray.

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05-01-2024 , 05:17 PM

#17235

johnny_on_the_spot

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Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 11,615

the irony about the whole "semi-retired" thing BS keeps trying to maintain is that it is actively hampering him from actually retiring. sure, he's 45ish right now and semi-retired and that sounds cool and all, but when he's 65/70/75/80 and still semi-retired because he never was able to save any money for retirement, it's going to kind of suck.

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05-02-2024 , 05:46 PM

#17236

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by Alpha Fish

technically if he just kept ENPH even with the downturn would still be sitting on about $13M

It was once over $300/share and I was thinking cd hv been 20+ million. Omg
Remember calling my Dad when it doubled from .80 cents to $1.60. Asked him if I shd cash out and pay off my house, or let it run. I was a big believer in Enphase and wanted to let it run. He advised paying off mortgage if it was him. We paid off the house. Sigh

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05-02-2024 , 05:50 PM

#17237

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by submersible

idk man enjoy reading the blog but honestly think you should just get a job. what does treading water until the end of the year actually do for you?
.

Got some big risks planned for next year. Something in the works. Gonna make it or break it time.
Poker is my job and it’s working. I can wake up everyday play tennis in the morning, poker in afternoon, grill poolside in the evenings. It’s just like being #FULLYRETIRED.

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05-02-2024 , 05:50 PM

#17238

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by 18000rpm

Working for any man is clearly beneath Ray.

It’s close

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05-02-2024 , 05:58 PM

#17239

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by johnny_on_the_spot

What’s ironic is I play w retired folks all the time. The whole irony is them dumping their retirement to me. Irony irony irony that they choose to play poker as entertainment when they retire. The irony of when u retire u will prob play more poker.
Come to think of it. I may hv just proved that I may b retired now. #fullyretired.

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05-02-2024 , 06:03 PM

#17240

ButterflySymmetry

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Finished April like a face plant. #Fulltransparency. Ur always gonna get the honest stats from me.

What I made in April didn’t cover April’s living expenses. Luckily we hv a little nest egg.

The $40k 1/3nl challenge is looking weak. Are we even really trying tho? Working like I’m #fullyretired.

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05-02-2024 , 06:59 PM

#17241

MastaAces

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Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 10,043

you're beaming with false confidence. #faketransparency

thread is at an all-time low. work on your game for a few weeks and put in some damn volume... this is embarrassing.

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05-03-2024 , 04:08 PM

#17242

kevinb1983

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,637

never mind

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05-03-2024 , 07:56 PM

#17243

submersible

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 1,615

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Originally Posted by ButterflySymmetry

is it working though? you're on pace to make less than a full time minimum wage job (~30,000). i get you value freedom but the difference in your situation and being retired is you actually need to make money to survive. if you have some big plan to make it why would you put it off for another 8 months to play 20 hours a week of 1/3?

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05-03-2024 , 09:29 PM

#17244

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

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Originally Posted by MastaAces

you're beaming with false confidence. #faketransparency

thread is at an all-time low. work on your game for a few weeks and put in some damn volume... this is embarrassing.

I cd lie and say I grinded 120 hours in April and made $6k, but we all #fulltransparency over here.
I logged what I did and made what I said. This is where the thread is now. Gonna keep it real. Not here for any story line.

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05-03-2024 , 09:31 PM

#17245

ButterflySymmetry

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

Quote:

Originally Posted by submersible

Gonna finish what I started. I always reset every year w new goals. Next year cd b a big pivot w everything on the line. Something is in the works.
For now, we finish the 8 months out.

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05-03-2024 , 09:32 PM

#17246

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

+105 today.
3 wins in a row to start May, but they have all been very small.

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05-04-2024 , 06:13 AM

#17247

skillz_2106

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,604

Quote:

Originally Posted by ButterflySmmetry

Got some big risks planned for next year. Something in the works. Gonna make it or break it time.

Didn’t you already do that multiple times in the past few years yoloing everything you had (plus margin) into stocks and coins?

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05-04-2024 , 07:02 AM

#17248

MastaAces

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Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 10,043

have you considered working on your poker game and improving your winrate? if you haven't, why not?

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05-04-2024 , 12:30 PM

#17249

ButterflySymmetry

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 5,209

Quote:

Originally Posted by MastaAces

have you considered working on your poker game and improving your winrate? if you haven't, why not?

Yes @mastaaces just about everyday.
Either learn by doing mixed in w a little studying. Lately just trying to memorize some preflop open charts from different positions.

Here now in the poker room working on my game and always trying different things to see what’s working and what’s not.

I may b the best there ever was