Glad to see OP has got the backup plan sorted if the poker doesn't work out.

Play more poker.

This thread have made me laugh alot because of funny comments.

You should move up to 5-10, 10-20 where they respect your UTG blind shoves

Time to admit it OP you are a degen, you got no shot at playing as a pro long term. It's ok, I'm a degen who's A and B game crushes midstakes games but can't keep it together to play it often enough to play professionally as well.

Massive +1.

You shrug of advice and label it as hating because it's not what you want to hear... Basically exactly what I used to do. Listen to the people in this thread, they have already gone down the road your currently on.

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Here's the thing: anyone that plays poker has an incentive to tell others not to go pro. They don't want the games to dry up and become reg heavy, so they discourage other promising regs to play too often. They know that all the money in the poker ecosystem comes from businessmen with full-time jobs that come to the casino irregularly, so they want to encourage people to live that lifestyle more, for the sake of protecting the poker ecosystem.

Whilst some of you have given me decent advice, you have to understand that I'm going to take the "don't go pro" advice with a grain of salt, for the reason above. I know that you have a conflict of interest here: giving me good advice vs protecting your financial interests via protecting the poker ecosystem. That's why I'm careful with listening to everything that people tell me.

1k profit today at 1/3 PLO

Made $1007 profit today at 1/3 PLO. Most of it came from this one hand I played back when it was 7-handed:

Villain (UTG+1) - LAGtard image. Usually plays like a maniac preflop but a competent LAG postflop. I've seen him pull huge bluffs before but he does have a fold button sometimes. $750.

Hero (SB) - TAG image. $700.

Hero is dealt 9d 8c 7s 6d

Villain pots $10 UTG+1 (he's literally doing this with 90% of hands)
Hero repots $34
Villain calls $34

Flop ($71) is T65r

Hero pots $71
Villain calls $71

Turn ($213) is Jd bringing flush draw

Hero pots $213
Villain calls $213

River ($639) is offsuit 8

Hero checks
Villain jams $382 effective
Hero calls $382

Villain shows QJT5 and we win a nice 1.4k pot.

Pretty happy to have put in a daytime session today, even though it was only a short one. It just feels so good to actually see the sunlight when I walk outside. Most people take these things for granted, but when you're working after midnight 5 days per week and playing poker after work, it's hard to get that precious vitamin D sometimes.

Now $13561 up at live poker this year, which means I've recovered the amount I lost at my last 5/5/10 session. Feels good.

Almost no one here is even in australia or going to move to australia for your 1/2 and 2/5 games. None of them are giving you advice to keep a good player out of the games lol. With some of the stuff you do it'd be in their best interest to keep you playing if they played with you anyways.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing but what's the point? He wouldn't believe us anyway.

OP is trotting out the conspiracy theories now. Paranoia and delusion seem to go hand in hand.

I'm sure every reg in the thread is terrified of the up and coming poker phenom who open jams a stack blind pre and GII with a naked gutshot in PLO.

The comedy in this thread is priceless. Literally laughing out loud.

Like I said before, it feels like reading a story on www.dontevenreply.com

That site and this thread are among the few things that can make me cry from laughter when Im alone.

Looool, come oooon OP. This is some serious paranoia BS.

As another poster mentioned, i guess delusional thinking goes hand in hand with paranoid tendencies.

Glad your Kings held, what was villain calling a jam here with though? AJ? Also why did you only call a $25 bet on the turn instead of a raise, as his bet seems so weak given the pot.

Just think through what you said for the moment - why would you being a pro in an Australian casino impact someone from USA or Europe or anywhere else in the world from making money at poker?

Also regarding those 4 points, I don't think you fit any of them (backup plan needs to involve something outside of poker btw), but you won't listen to anything anyway so not much point in me explaining.

If we are all afraid of the poker ecosystem collapsing, why is there even a 2+2 forum in the first place? So we can all give out the worst poker advice on purpose to make everyone else worse? Why are you here reading this site at all and posting here if that's what you believe?

He could've hero called with any pair. Even third pair. He thinks I'm perfectly polarised.

The point of the turn flat was to disguise my hand and make it look like I'm on a draw, which allowed this river jam. I wouldn't have been able to overbet jam the river if I'd raised the turn.

Arrogance much?

You going pro won't change anything in the slightest...

LOL

Schizophrenia is on a spectrum. Schizoid, schizotypal, schizoaffective, schizoprenia, schizophrenorm.

I'm not saying OP is schizo but clearly this is some paranoid disordered thinking.

OP no one is advocating you don't play to keep the poker ecosystem softer for themselves. At LLSNL no less. Some people are just haters for no reason but most people telling you to quit poker are doing so because it really does seem like you are likely to go broke. For the record buddy I've been playing poker for 15 years and I've never once gone all-in blind. The lack of discipline and other problems you have going on for you to do something like that points to your likely failure on this trajectory. I don't doubt you can change things and inevitably be successful, but clearly, based on your own behavior, you are doing something wrong.

Yup good points. Also how many of the people advocating OP doesn't play actually reside in the same country as you? I'm from the USA.

No money HU, OP plays in one casino in a country thousands of miles from most of us.

Your theory checks out, must be why every post in every other goals thread also advises for the OP to quit poker. Just too many damn promising reg's around these days, we must collectively trick them all into quitting for our own benefit, muahahahaha.

This is the first thread on 2p2 I've given 5 stars