Geezus...high school is ridiculously easy to complete and play poker at the same time. Not to mention, not old enough for casinos. 10000% the worst decision ever. Can you succeed? Of course. But seriously, there's no reason to NOT finish HS. I can see skipping college (as that is way more costly and an ass backwards system), but c'mon man...high school? Everyone wants to make money and be their own boss, and be entrepreneurs. But seriously...they finish High School. Best of luck with the pokers, but holy lord take advantage of being young. PLENTY of time for playing poker while in school.

Seriously big guy. Show us your giraffe graph..... Or stop with your high and mighty ego ridden BS posts.

Those are your options.

GL OP will be following!

ps. I do not think this is a mistake, follow your life your dreams wherever they take you. Just be cautious in the path, it may be misleading. Be ready to change at moments notice. Lifes unpredictable.

Hey OP. I don't think this is the best decision either but if this is really your passion you should be getting in way more than 5k hands in 2 1/2 weeks on pstars. With no other obligations you should be getting in like 8 hours/day of play of top of study time. The volume is only going to get worse as you become less and less passionate over time. Gl.

So you're saying I should work 16 hours? 1 hour study for every 1 hour of play

More like 2 or 3 hours of study for every 8 hours of play. 1 hour of study for every 1 hour of play isn't optimal imo.

I think 2 hours of study and like 6 hours of play a day would be ideal if you're trying to move up and crush asap. Maybe 1 hour at start of day and 1 hour as a break or at the end, but if you're not sure what to study play until you are and if you're learning a lot don't just stop studying to play.

Made sure you mark a lot hands and look at them either after or before your session. Most people find before more helpful because they can look at them with fresh eyes and without emotion, it also reminds you what to work on during your session.

In all seriousness though you have a better chance of making a living at roulette.

Did OP get a staking/coaching deal yet?

That reminds me of an interview I saw of Puggy Pearson at the WSOP 1980 or something, saying that the young players were tougher because they were more educated. We re in 2015 !! High school is a very minimum !!! If you have to drop out of high school something is wrong with you man. It s just ****ing simple ABC maths and english.... It s not like you sacrifice a university program or something. it s something any kind of disciplined person can just do without too much sacrifice. Just do it yo !!! Can t beleive what i read here... Forget about the money/job/poker things. What kind of respect will you get in society without high school finished. Dont compare yourself to older generations. In future generations, you will really not get lot of respect.

Exactly, it's just ABC, nothing special really. Everything they teach you, you can now teach yourself at home.

Who the hell cares about what year we live in. We're all still a bunch of dumb apes finding our own meanings in life and whatever we chose to follow it still won't make a difference. It's funny how everybody looks up to school given education as if it were the gates to heaven. It really doesn't matter what path we choose, we all end up in the same way in the end. So why not take a leap of faith. I'm doing what makes me happy, if I fail, so what?

No it isn't.

School is fun and all but the purpose should be to be able to learn for a career. It's just one way of getting there, nothing special.

Like I said there is nothing wrong with doing your own thing and trying a whole other way. I'm just saying your plan is stupid, literally dumb. If you really want to do this then that's fine, it's just that you haven't put together a good plan. I am not saying that because I want people to follow all the others, if anything I advice people to take some more risk.

Normally the higher the risk the higher the reward. You're facing huge risk with very little reward at the end. It's dumb.

Can you at least finish your hs through homeschooling?

I mean high school is something basic enough it s like if you were saying you drop out gym in order to play poker. People will think you re ridiculous and good luck for other basic things.

Don't try become a fulltime poker player unless you have 20kusd. Giving up school for anything is -EV unless its for a trade eg plumbing/carpentry etc
Stupid people do succeed in life tho........sometimes

Odds are something worse than 1/1000 but that's a long way from 0.

But to succeed at poker you will have to study you ass off anyways. There aren't many lines of work more boring and robotic than playing poker....it's certainly a much worse grind than school.

If you want to live the good life you are going about everything the wrong way. Pay no attention to me though. I'm just in for the lulz.

This plan would have been ok in 2007.

I know you have a "**** the haters ****ting on my dreams, I can do anything" mindset, but take it from me(msnl+reg since 2007) - I am positive that quitting high school to pursue online poker will negatively effect your life. Pursue live somewhere that runs soft 5/10 games to eventually get into or get into trading which you said you loved. Either way, gl.

This reminds me so much of myself 3 years ago so I will just share a short summary of my story;

I made the same decision immidetialy when I turned 18; I had a bankroll of just about $3k, but I really wanted to give poker a shot as I didn't want to live a normal boring life with no chance to become rich/successful and poker was the only thing in my mind at that moment.

Looking back, I was just being naive/degens and thought it would be way easier than it actually turned out to be to make a living of this game. I would most likely be a completely degens/failure if I didn't work my ass off.. I've been at the very bottom so many times during this period. (Both financially and mentally). But its not until now the last year things started to work out well.

I'm 21 now, I've played average 60hours per week and made $300k profits in 3 years from online MTTs. I dont agree with the people who says you have alot of freedom playing poker; if you want to earn money and be at the top; you wont have so much freedom; you have to work harder than everyone! But it is for sure nice to be your own boss and that you can choose when you want vacation and most importantly, being able to make money by something you love to do..

I've been living with my parents until now so I could put all money I made into my bankroll, so now I have about $150k which is a large amount of money for my age, but remember; You have to make much more than an average person if you're playing poker fulltime, because you dont really have a plan B, awful social life, and often very stressful as you have to deal with alot of variance. And you also have to manage your money, don't try to be the king at the bar just because you had a nice session; your friends are not gonna pay for you when you're at a downswing. At the end of the year you will ask yourself "where is all my winnings?" if you dont manage your money, trust me!

I was lucky enough to find a backing deal in the beginning of my "career", as a MTT pro, you can go months without making money so it is necessary to either have a huge bankroll or to find a backer; when you're backed and have a high makeup, this can be very stressful too. I can admit that many many times I have asked myself wtf I'm doing with my life. But now I'm at the point where I'm rolled enough, good knowledges and have a mindset that allows me to still play poker professionally being more comfortable.


I wouldn't recommend anyone becoming full time online pro today, it's a really tough living and not as easy life as it seem to be. The game are obviously alot tougher now and you have to work alot harder for less money. (I guess its even harder at the cashgame than MTTs too) But if its a dream for you, you should go for it and give it a year or two; and then reevaluate.

Also; you must change this mindset "What if I die tomorrow", you have many days to live and if you're gonna be a professional, you have to think long term with everything in life.

Good luck!

Well done...seriously. Getting so many people (including now me) to comment on your bio in just one month is quite an achievement.

I'm well old so nothing I say is of any value whatsoever, but it might bring a smile...who knows?

Here go's

Don't sponge off your parents, friends or the welfare state - doing that is not being "your own person"; "being your own person" = paying your own way.

Don't go to any country with easy access to firearms; Asperger's and firearms don't mix.

Other than that crack on. If you can pull it off, you'll be legend. And if you can't it don't matter as long as it is only yourself that you **** up.

OMG High school is so much fun and easy and you could easily do both things. You are loosing to much. But if you are really gonna do that u should dedicate more time to this blog. GL though. Make it fun.

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update on results? busto?

That was quick...

He can't. I mean make it fun. This blog is/ was an ego thing for OP. I assume now the graph goes down, and he just can't post it. Poker is kicking OPs ego a lot more than high school did.

Hi, I'm sorry I haven't posted any graph of my results lately but I've gone super-busto. Though my graph doesn't look that bad right?



I mean, it's probably just variance. Look at this hand for example:



Obviously I should've won, I hit my set, raise and he calls. Then the Ace of spades come up and I knew I was about to get in trouble. So to not give him the odds to call, I was going to make sure that he'd rather quit poker all together than call.

I raise but then before he can call, I trick him and shove my whole stack. He doesn't give a two ****s and only calls some of it. So I think, "No you don't!" and I find another stack and shove that too. But it isn't enough, his odds are too good so with all of my power I grow my original stack in the middle of the hand and shoves all in with another whole 7 euro.

He calls the rest of his stack and I won, or so I thought. As you can see at the top, it still turned into a loss, I guess I'm just not good enough at shoving stacks.

















hm2

I liked your thread beause i also wanted to become a poker pro and it is alerting for me to see you going busto. How did you lose your stack so fast? Did you try out new tactics that didnt worked? On which limits did you lost it.

Besides that, what hand did your opponent have in your last post? I dont get what happened.