Great results man, truly inspiring
Looks like you print money on nl200 with no effort. Do you think 10bb/100+ long term is achievable on these stakes? Hom many tables do you play?

ideally you don't want poker popping up at all - some people mentioned you can get your hendon deleted, if that's possible i highly suggest doing so there's no benefit at all other than vanity/getting staked

I wouldn't bring it up unless you got some insane read it'll help (it won't help though, even as a poker player I'm legit biased against hiring poker players i don't personally know and can trust - i mean just look at PG&C ffs at least half are morally ambiguous at best and some are just total scumbags & not a month goes by some person here doesn't scam another)

I think OP's issue that he sort of vaguely confirmed is that he lied by omission - ie he gave them a timeline that clearly did not fit with his hendon mob data - never lie because if they are asking they're already investigating and some may not care about poker but every cares about lying

if it comes up it comes up but downplay and underexaggerate - just like when someone asks you at the table "oh i've played a bunch" not "yeah I beat nl2k at 9bb/100"

Thanks man. 10bb is probably possible if you stick to regular tables. I usually play 3-4 regular tables and 1-2 Zoom tables.

Wtf, this is absurd. Are you confident that was the real reason you were fired? I can't help but be a little skeptical. Why were they fishing for information about you all of a sudden in the first place? If that's truly why you were fired, it was probably a blessing in disguise if these are the people making any kind of important decisions at the company.

Anyways, good luck with everything. My advice is to stop looking at yourself in any way, shape, or form as unemployable because of poker, even if that might be true in some circumstances. Your success in it is a strength and you need to figure out how to market it as such.

So a bit of an update. I'll be moving to a new city after the summer (or August, ish), just because it'll be easier to get a job there. I'm not super happy about having to leave my current city, apartment and friends -- but it's kind of necessary to move to a bigger city just to get the ball rolling again imo.

As for poker, I sat in an unusually big game and lost 2k vs a whale today. Won't be taking (online) shots like this again in quite a while.

Yeah, again, I've left out a detail or two, but poker ended up being the main reason. Can't really explain more without saying exactly where I was working and what my position was.

I definitely agree that I shouldn't categorize myself as unemployable, especially since it's not really true. This has just put me in a pretty tough spot. Anyway, interesting that you think that one's poker success should be marketed at all, since that's not really in line with what rickroll/most people seem to think. I appreciate the input though of course.

Got invited to a pretty big live game last night. I obviously sprinted there and proceeded to lose 4k. Nothing I could do imo/just bricked every draw for hours and couldn't make a single value hand. Tough to win live w/o making hands sadly.

Now this month's looking like a bit of a struggle all of a sudden. 6 days to go though!

Good luck! following

-ActionSam

Only up 2kish for the month now. 4 days left to run it (back) up a bit. Will be playing a big session tonight online and I've got another live game tomorrow.

Tyty!

Not a bad session last night:



Up 7k online now for the month and near the peak again after dumping 200bb in 2 seconds at 1knl.

Hopefully there'll be a live game tonight, but if not I'll just keep firing online.

Won some money at cash and finished 5th in an MTT for 2.3k ($109 bi). Ultra tilted with the MTT result but I'll prob feel fine about it tomorrow. I'm absolutely exhausted though, no idea how people grind these things full time.

Month's looking slightly better now.

Done with the month. Not feeling 100% today so won't play much/at all.

So yeah, online cash:



MTTs: +$2461

Live: -$3900

Overall results: +$7616

Not a bad month obviously, but it's always pretty frustrating to book red numbers live. It's especially frustrating right now imo since games run so infrequently and you can't really grind it out.

I've also managed to apply for a total of 7 jobs this month, which I'm pretty pleased with.

Month so far,



Haven't played any live so it's good to not have dumped any $$ there yet. Might be going to a home game this weekend though.

Zero progress on the job front sadly. Will keep grinding and applying for the occasional job here and there.

So yeah been swinging a little more since my last post. Month atm:



Been playing a bunch of 500, which is more fun and obviously more challenging than 200. Definitely making a fair amount of mistakes, but so is everyone else. All about making fewer mistakes than the next guy.

Also splurged a bit and bought a $1.2k 49" monitor. Looks amazing and feels amazing.

Glgl, subbed. If you dont mind sharing whats the avg salary in your country, and what would salary be for the jobs you are applying for?

Thx. Roughly $3k net/mo (the monthly average in the capital and also close to what I'll be making once I'm back on the job grind).

I've enjoyed your thread and you obviously have an interesting background and some serious poker skills. But still, something just doesn't feel quite right . . .

You talk about having days/series of days where you win thousands of dollars AND you also discuss having a job and needing to leave your home town to job search??? $100+ USD per hour and you're doing your CV???

I'll stop short of calling your thread BS but it just doesn't seem right.

Could this be a case where you're not enjoying your skills and poker work in the best way possible? The win rates that you're posting enable you to live ANYWHERE you want in the world. Go out and get yourself a beach side condo and wave at the pretty ladies in bikinis after your poker sessions and then come back and tell us about how much of a grind it is

Seriously, I have a corporate job that I love and it pays me very well. But if I had your skills to print money like that I'd be somewhere warm and just enjoy the flexibility that a job like poker can provide. Like maybe you just need to embrace your skills and reap the benefits a little more and, most of all, enjoy those benefits. If you do that, there is no reason why you wouldn't want to continue with poker.

I'm ~30, not 21. At some point soon things like settling down with a girl and buying a place will be on the cards, and poker just isn't very compatible with things like that. You're basically categorized as a child if you play poker full-time (so for instance, buying a place would be difficult since banks wouldn't even give you the time of day).

Poker will of course always play a big part for obvious reasons, but it's mainly about planning for the future and not limiting myself to just poker.

That being said, if I was in my early 20s I'd do exactly what you said.

nobody likes GJ, he's the resident thread surfing douchebag, you don't have to ignore him but if you choose to engage with him then don't quote him so all the people who have him on ignore don't get secondhand aids

Since your 30 and clearly intelligent you won't mid me pointing this out...
Doesn't matter. A bog standard question in any job interview is...

"reason for leaving last job"

And once you lie, or dissemble, in any job interview your future employment is in jeopardy either at the time, or at any time downstream.

Always be totally honest...people like honesty, and if they can't deal with it, you probably don't want to work for them anyway.

You want the world to conform to YOUR preferences and YOUR liking. So who's really the douche here?

The difference between you and me is that you want the world to bend to you. I accept the world as it is and when I see crap, I say, "hey, that's crap!". And that is why you don't like me - I shatter your world view and you don't have the maturity to handle it.

No, no, that's completely wrong. That's probably the biggest fallacy that exists on these boards.

Your 20s are just about your best years with time & energy. The best use of time there is to prepare yourself with a college education and build a career. Use your 30s to bank away money and then retire by 50 when you no longer have the same energy or mental focus.

So right now is the time to embrace something and bank away as much money as you can. You'll be a completely different (lesser) person in as little as 10 years, so do what you can right now to get ahead of that curve. Go and enjoy poker because it can bring you so much more money than you'll ever be able to collect from in the future.

You'll be a completely different (wiser) person in as little as 10 years

fyp

Your welcome

Month booked. Nice to finish on a high after what was a pretty swingy month.

Will be playing in a live game tomorrow where I could easily win/lose 4k, so we'll see what my overall results are after that.

Made it to the last stages of a couple of recruitment processes, and if things go well I'll be starting a new job on October 1st. However, "lying by omission" is still a thing since I haven't mentioned poker. Turns out my story of just having traveled for a bit and then having had a tough time getting a new job still works somewhat fine. It really sucks not being able to be completely honest with basically anyone though, it really makes me feel like **** at times.

Some poker, online cash 2020 so far:



up close to 50k overall with live and MTT winnings.

This whole thread is a lie. Complete made up story. No job looks up evidence of a person playing poker, nor would any job fire a person for it. Complete and utter BS from the OP.