Best advice you'll get in this thread.

It has been a really, really long time since I've snipped a post from 2p2.

Kudos

yee

end of an era

This is so pure.


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Only get coaching from world class players. I got MMASherdog and I'm at 10NL.

Studying 4 hours a day is going to be a massive waste of time. You don't have any talent. Find something you're actually good at and focus on it.

You know the cliche everyone is good at something, what if you're not. Government job?

I study public administration and I'm offended

What's wrong with government jobs?

Cant believe you’d seriously ask this

I haven't worked an hour in my life.

I really don't know anything about the topic.

Some people aren't good at anything and that is unfortunate. With automation becoming more prevalent, the situation will only get worse for those people.

I think government jobs vary greatly between countries. Judging by OPs description of what he's applying for its nothing like what a public sector job in the UK would be.

Are we referring to the OP here or just people in general?

A government job may be terrible, but anything's better than beating your head against a wall like op is right now. Op hasn't put a consistent winning streak together in his life, is breakeven lifetime and is now entertaining the idea of devoting a huge part of everyday to this fruitless endeavor. Longer post than usual but for God's sake rapid get your head out of your ass.

Agreed, rapidesh, I applaud your passion and fatih, but at this point in time, with that little money I would strongly suggest to get a regular job first. Study something youre passionate about, make some money, and then if you still want to when youre in a more stable situation, you can hire a coach who knows what hes doing and aligns with what youre trying to achieve and give it another shot.

Gj in admitting defeat, takes a lot of humility, dont kill that by forcing the issue.

People in general.

Government jobs are insane here in Brazil and it was always my main focus since I graduated. It's hard, the one I study for is one of the more competitive ones(if not the most, it's probably only softer than the ones to work in the congress), but pays really well (5-6k dollars/month) recently ended up scoring recently 86 out of 120 questions in a test, with 96 I would have passed, still a long way to go.

And the time I'm using to study poker isn't study time for the government job, if I weren't studying poker I would be watching anime/playing videogame, so it's not like I'm skipping gym or giving up my future to try to do well at poker.

I've always gave up on my dreams and projects in life, I've decided that poker is the one I won't give up.

Lol, everyone is good at something, I think everyone is good at least in one area of intelligence. I'm very dumb at dealing with people (like having a good gut feeling, finding sizing/timing tells), but I'm very good with logic/math (otherwise I wouldn't have graduated in engineering in one of the top universities of south america), memory (I remember with great clarity about close to all important hands I played vs a certain player in the past 2 years) and creativity.

Emotional control and understanding people are obviously the most important ones in poker (logic as well), but I will work hard to overcome those weaknesses.

Thanks, man, but I think all I need is to relax a bit, regain my confidence and fix my leaks in std spots. Brokenstars did what he could and I couldn't accept his advice well, so imo the solution isn't in coaching. I won't get a job because it's more worth my time studying to pass the test and become a taxman.

Buying pio solver soon and will start to work in memorizing the equilibriums and making my simplifications, will let my exploits happen naturally and won't force them. Since I'm not good enough to own people I'll try to play a strategy that allows them to make mistakes vs mine.


Vaaaamooo

Just get a government job and play poker on the side?? Come on man you've failed this test more than once now. Why not just focus for like 6 months, get a job and do whatever you want from there?

yeah, nothing has changed

Jesus fkn christ man!
Ive been semi trolling u as an eye opener. You really are stupid and has very hi thoughts about yourself. Well worded advices itt and u 100% ignore them!
The repeat quotet text on this page by many posters has been my toughts all way long.Accept u suck at this game, and learn reaaaaally slow. You got over a million maybe 2 million hands and havent moved anywhere. Small sample of some nl200 games made you belive youre some kind of poker wizzard. Telling other players how it should be played. Is there anyone home between your ears? You dont move anywhere, how can you think your walls of text is anything but way to complicated? You are overdoing this game big time! And live in a fantasy world you could beat nosebleeds im sure you even think from time to time you are a big time crusher.

Get your feet back on the ground and head out of this fantasy cloud!
Its a freaking circus! You are to late for this game... dosent mean nobody can start in todays climate and make it, its just not for you. You clearly have to many mental leaks and issues around poker and in general.
Play for fun win some money and work your ass of in real world. Sounds like you got something going on there.

Hard to understand all the rudeness, he's been working hard and giving his best. It's not his fault if he is hard headed and slow to learn and delusional these are just features which many successful people are having aswell and no one talks to them like that.

Sounds like engineering is your thing and nothing wrong with that. Its cool you have one occupation which is no means worse than a poker career. Keep poker for fun on the side when its the time. You won't regret it. Gl!

I'd like to be convinced that putting "vamooo" at the end of every post is not what automatically makes you lose at poker.

That's what I've been doing all this time lol, but do you know that there are people studying for it for 5+ years, right? If I pass the test I'm done for life, so reproving in the 2 I did is expected, the last one I did had 500+ people per job.

It's not like I can snap pass in the test if I want, I can't study 12h+ day of boring subjects without burning out, it's like a marathon, will probably be good enough to pass in 1.5- 2 years of study (started 1 year ago). Even with my skills in making tests it will be hard, was the same in entering the university, had to beat a lot of people to get into the university, I had a good enough grade to pass in all engineering courses at unicamp(second best university of south america overall I think) and got first place in civil engineering at unb, as well as passed in ufscar (the one I ended up going, those are some very good brazilian universities).

As you can see I'm very good at making those tests, but even with that, the competition is so overwhelming that one can't just casually just "pass the job", here in brazil if you pass in one of those it's gg life, work is easy, low work load, sallary is insane here. Those kind of tests are just insane and It isn't like that in other places in the world given how much those pay well related to other jobs.

Minimum sallary in brazil is less than $400/month, as a beginner engineer I would make $1k/month and a top engineer makes around $7-10k month (like high end engineer, like those factory managers/executives), this job pays $5k-6k/month), so people are crazy to get those, it's overpowered. And you can't get fired like ever unless you get into corruption, I think for you to get fired the president himself has to sign one paper lol, and even then if he has no good justification even him can't do it.

After all I said, do you get that it's not a casual thing to just "pass in one of those"?

I'm an abomination as an engineer, engineers need to be good with people, which I'm not. And poker has always been a hobby for me, I never thought about going pro even when I was playing 200z, just read the posts in those times to see if I said something like that

Ofc it looks like it's my main goal to you guys since I only post poker stuff here, but I've skipped almost all friday nights to play magic rather than play poker, because my friends couldn't play on other times. There's no way that I would be considering going pro if I were skipping friday nights to play magic lol.

But I obv try hard as much as I can within my reality and it will be like that in the future. I've always wanted to be a top player in a game (mtg, warcraft 3, wow) and poker is the game I will try to be the best at.