Downvoters are literally Anne Franks, having to hide from 5 star literal Nazis.

Young people in Australia face a lot of hardships that Anne Franks wouldn't know anything about. Everything used to be easy but times are tough for today's younger generation.

WOW. Losing $1100 at 1/3 in one session. Turning pro next week.

This can't be real.

Losing $200 with AT on an A773 board seems excessive. I understand how donktastic villains in the land of the kangaroo can be but even still that seems like a lot. You may be playing your mediocre hands too fast.

By contrast, in 508 sessions / 3930 hours at live 1/3 NL over the last 9 years I've booked $1000+ losses exactly twice (-$1013 and -$1200). Obviously we likely play very different styles in different games, but it sure is an interesting contrast.

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Hero's savant-like creativity will get him through, no doubt. You saw his AA hand, right?

And TBF, living under oppressive Nazi-Germany-like conditions, we certainly can't blame OP for a slow start.

International bestseller finished at age 15 which was just her damn diary by the way, didn't have to hit up the publishers herself or even hire an agent.

Fast forward to today, try publishing an awesome blog like the one we're reading - which everyone agrees is 5 stars - and no-one wants to know.

Can't believe how entitled and obtuse old people are nowadays.

this thread is ****ing hilarious. can't believe it took me this long to find it

And you probably have other income and a decent poker BR. OP is doing this off a $7000 BR and in a week's time no other income. That's over 10% of his roll dropped in one session. Not to mention the $1000+ he dropped in just one hand recently.

I've changed my mind about the trolling. You can't make this **** up.

This is my favorite post so far. OP, most of the fish aren't rich businessmen. They are guys like you. Nobody is telling you not to go pro because they're worried you're going to make their games worse. If they were only looking out for themselves, they would encourage the opposite.

ok back to blind utg shoves and bomb pots plz

You're also a huge nit and play in 100 BB cap games. A $1000+ loss at 1/3 is not out of the ordinary if the entire table is 200-300 BB's deep.

Is there any chance a guy who utg shoves could be successful? That just seems so willfully destructive. Like you know that's as bad as it gets essentially in terms of losing plays. Never done it myself.

Gl OP. Make sure you are fulfilled by life no matter win or lose.

crying tears of laughter as I scroll down this thread.. lmfao

This is at least the second time you've said this itt, unprompted. You sure you've never done it?

I've been giving OP lots of advice to not go pro, but losing $1100 in one session of 1/3 is not that big of a deal. I do it all the time.


How many 1k+ wins have you booked in that time? I win/lose 1k+ like 35% of the 1/2 or 1/3 sessions I play.

Haha I'm sure. I mean I'm trash at poker in different ways like I've looked at hands that should be folded and punted away preflop before. But never blind.

Yeah, admittedly my nitty style is much different than OPs and I probably play in smaller stacked games than him (and lately actually intentionally seek them out as it suits my style).

But, for the record, 23 $1000+ wins versus my 2 $1000+ losses.

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I was gonna guess 10 times as many 1k+ wins as losses. Not bad.

And I'm on an unlimited BR.

Playing a high variance strategy / game with a limited BR which, if busted, means you're out of business, is ******ed (even if it may sacrifice a bit of EV).

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Off a $7000 BR? My point was more about the BR than the loss.

Uh WHUT?

You shouldn’t go pro because you’re under rolled and not prepared for what being a pro means. Pros have to play in reg heavy games, just by law of averages to get your hours in.

I give exactly zero ****s about Australia’s poker ecosystem and protecting it.






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All of this is true. Especially the last line.


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Point taken, it is pretty dumb on a $7000 life roll with no outside income.

I think its cute when people talk about "going pro". Like they get a special pro card or sumpin. I have bin around the gambool for quite a while. Of the most successful pros that I know - the whole perfessional thing has happened organically. Meaning they allocated a small chunk of their net worth to their "experiment". To verify a few things:

1 am I profitable
2 do I enjoy spending a lot of time doing this (there is a massive massive difference between dickin around playing 500 hours per year and trying to crank out 2000 hrs) which leads to 3
3 can I actually log enough hours doing this to make a reasonable living

Attempting to "go pro" with out actually having made a decent bit of $ gamboolin, not having logged a significant amount of hours in the casino, and not having a decent net worth (a lot more than 7k) is a recipe for pain and anguish