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Originally Posted by Maverick93
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by TheGodson
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by CRAIBaby
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.
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
Last edited by Rapidesh123; 11-17-2018 at 02:04 AM.