this guy does have the weirdest flexes

interesting you are gonna choose to forego a job at the "Big4, high finance, trading, IB, etc" despite your incredible experience in these industries. most be turning down offers hand over fist. recruiters hitting you up like bud did you play chess when you were 16 and get an undergrad degree? we're prepared to make an offer RIGHT NOW, but you have to say nah man i wanna play 2/5 in LA while living with my parents due to my strong virtues.

I wonder how many times that advice has been given on PG&C when a thread like this one was started and how many times the OP followed that advice. My guess for the latter would be 0%.

In for the ride glgl

It does come across that way. Makes me think he's exaggerating and/or lying about his achievements and job offers he's got. Because no one who is supposedly this intelligent would want to live with their parents and grind live 2/5 NLHE.

#freethechest.....man

I'm pretty sure that's a sex doll.

Rtp, just curious your undergrad had an honors finance program? Or you mean you just graduated with good marks and got some sort of "honors"

Lolerskates

chat thread in the house!

welcome guys, thanks for tuning in.

Your advice is always appreciated

..well except for lolSlim haha

Freedom, flexibility, playing a game for a living, and being my own boss. I’m aware that I’m thinking short term but I think I’m young enough to were that’s okay.

While you’re absolutely right about some/many big companies not being interested down the line, as my friend feelie has said to me previously no employer will discriminate against a 23 year old who worked crazy hard as a youth and at college and then took some time to mature and see the world before deciding what they wanted to commit to.

I want to give this a shot and while I think I’ll still be doing this 15 years from now, I think I can reasonably pivot into something prestigious in finance/accounting down the road if things don’t go as planned.

I’m not saying it would be guaranteed, but it’s a plan B after all.

Thank you!
See above. Thanks for tuning in!
Thank you! #BanTheChessMan
Thank you! I’ll try my best sir.

Thank you for the kind words sir, I appreciate it.

Re PokerBros: I only plan to be doing that for a few months. This is because I’m not allowed to play in most card rooms legally at the moment.

Re Live poker: you bring up some good points and I get that this may be a poor decision from a logical standpoint but I want to give this a shot and am willing to give it my all. I don’t have much insight into how this pandemic will affect live poker moving forward, but I think there’s enough money out there to not only do “well” but to thrive. Hopefully that answers your question!

I get that man. Hopefully I can be an outlier!

This. RoadtoPro is a narcissistic liar. Screw him.

Haha enough people have tried to talk me out of this that I’m fully aware of what I’m passing up on and the potential consequences pursuing this can have.

Thanks for tuning in man, constructive criticism is always welcome.

What an honor to have the legend himself join the fun

That’s what I’m leaning towards!

It doesn’t. Basically, it’s Latin honors which are based on good marks/grades. Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude etc.

Thanks for tuning in. Have learned a lot from your strat posts in the past year.

Thank you!

OP, can you post your hours, steaks and win rate?

Your friend is wrong.

These top companies want motivated driven people. If you showed up after 2 years and said you used the time to go travelling or something without building any expertise / qualifications in that time then it would not be well respected.

Gl with your pursuits but don't think that option will be open to you a few years down the line.

I’ll post an update tonight wrt how the grind went today and get back to everyone else who’s being constructive and sharing good advice. I really do appreciate it and am excited for this as I stated in the OP.

Up $270 so far 6 hours in.

$45/hr seems reasonable GL

Unlike a lot of people in this thread, I don't think that forgoing traditional "prestigious" career paths is a mistake (in fact, taking those jobs is probably a mistake for a lot of people). If that's not what you do, don't make your life miserable just to make a few extra dollars. That doesn't automatically mean the answer is poker though.

I do think you should be more ambitious with your poker plans though. There's a lot more than just 5/5 somewhere (which you will almost certainly hate grinding before long).

Rare, medium rare, or well done?

Troll thread.

More entertaining than the 6bet thread at the moment.

Any goals to lose virginity?

check the join dates for the dudes who have poasted up. There are prolly a dozen who have been on the forum for at least 10 years. That does not happen often - clearly op has some street cred.

I plan to very transparent about all three of those things starting today but I don’t want to get criticized for past results.

I started playing live less than two years ago and with school, chess, etc. haven’t dedicated as much time to poker as I wished. Thankfully, I’ve been winning from session #2 and progressed quite rapidly in that time but I’m still a newb! My winrate/ skillz meh albeit already better than 90% etc. etc. so it’s all good

My friend is the poster right above ya. He’s a legend in my eyes and quite successful I believe. I am both motivated and driven sir, but I completely understand your sentiment. While my mind is made up, I appreciate the dose of reality. I try to be open minded about most things. This isn’t one of them simply because I’m committed to giving this a shot.

Haha thanks man. I wish that was my hourly atm.

Well said. Commerce spreads 10/20 so should be no problem. Not that I’m anywhere close to ready for that anyways. It’ll be some time. Appreciate the thoughts, thanks for sharing man.

medium rare is the only correct answer.
+1. Screw roadtopro, he’s an entitled jerk who’s never worked a real day in his life. Probably a trust fund kid.

Don’t worry, your mom already helped me take care of that.

You’re a real one, Squid. Thanks

Rtp do you do solver work?

And seems like your main bread and butter will be 5/5? Are you looking to play online other than pbros?

Im in. Gl crushing the donkeys!

Can’t speak to Wall Street or anything of that nature, but 1-2 years out of college I see no problem getting a job with a big 4 firm if he wants. I knew plenty of people who started at a big 4 firm after a year or two off. Sure it’s harder, but if his accolades are that impressive and he’s a reasonable speaker/has some connections then it’s not that hard.

I have a lot of regrets with my career path (including “wasting” time at a big 4 firm) and don’t hate on a young guy doing him for a bit. Gl man life’s long do you. Agree with striving higher than live 5/5 though, but have to start somewhere.

The only companies that would be prejudiced against a high achieving 21 year old seeing the world for a year or two before committing to their career are companies that no sane person would want to work at

subbed. don't know why people got so toxic on you in other thread, your posts were funny / thoughtful.

let's see some heatering glgl

Not much unfortunately :/. Am I allowed to cite time as an excuse? However, a few of my friends that have taken similar paths advise me on solver recs in every spot when I’m curious and I’ve tried to spend the little time I had for poker pre pandemic towards grinding and analysis of those sessions. Starting next month I’ll be dedicating 50-75 hours a week+ towards poker and hopefully solver works becomes a mainstay in my routine. I love poker theory, it reminds me of chess theory.

I plan to start at 5/5 but definitely open to playing other stakes depending on how things go. It varies per casino as well. Between $500, 600, 1000 cap etc.

I’m planning to stick to PokerBros only until I turn 21, and then start playing live asap!

I was able to grind live sporadically throughout college since it’s 18 in Texas. It’s 21 everywhere else except for Native American reservations etc.

Thanks man!
This is good insight. I love tax. It’s very interesting. Audit otoh..

Thanks for the well wishes.

Update incoming!