We need to launch some sort of IRL intervention program to save dbeckham. Why does he choose to live like this instead of working on his game and 4-tabling 10/20 25-30 hours per week? He makes such gruesome errors when he plays as it is. I mean he is timed out at like 1/4 his tables at any given time. Good players have literally nothing better to do than sit there and think about how to destroy him while they wait for him to play. What is the point of playing 16 tables if you are really playing 12 because you are timed out and 6 more of them are so terrible that your expectation at them is like -2BB/100??? It's like the the SNE program turned out to be the ultimate venus fly trap for OCD kids who may be mildly autistic. He would make more money playing 6 tables because he would play decently and his tables wouldn't suck and and and AND AND AND AND OMFGGFG &)Q$#@%^(&*( 76 &^ %^45 (&* &*( &)()*( 76% $% %^$% 3^* ))*(FGRO WEUYGFE EW0tf TY

roflroflrofl, article was amazing. does he tell them how most regs literally move from table to table looking from him? i never knew what an ass-hat this guy is

he's totally misleading the 7 people that read Minnesota Poker Mag

ROFL!!! Very true....idle minds....

Also another guy has chimed in on the berating on his TR page. Bren Osoro I think it was. I'm thinking of putting a message up there telling him the 3/6 games are way fishier now that he is gone and to please stay away.

wtf is he doing leaving the 3/6 games? so he had a 20k downer, big effin deal. he makes a **** ton of money w/ fpps, he is so insanley over-rolled for those games

I'm sure Becks comes on here for great advice. I saw his downswing was like $12k going back to last year. He's SNE (last I saw he was current), so he's hitting 100k VPP/month to maintain extend it, right? 1 million points by the end of October. That's 500k FPP/month @ $0.016/each or $8k/month, not counting milestone bonuses. I'm not sure what a guy who cleared almost $50k in bonus this year cares about a $12k downswing. Looking at them, the additional value of the milestones pretty much covers the downswing.

You're trapped as a SNE. The bonus is so good, even close to breakeven play puts you miles ahead.

I'm glad the guy isn't in my games any more, but the whole busto thing confuses me. If PTR has him right, he's made a ton more $ than I have this year playing poker. I guess he doesn't have that day job thing to prop him up. Still, living cheap, I don't see anything on PTR that says he's anything but robusto. For a quite reasonable rate, I'd be willing to coach him on how to actually turn a profit in the games he's playing. All the dislike aside, I'm sure most of the rest of you would do the same. FWIW, there are plenty of MMT guys who don't slow down the tables this much. Heck timewalker manages to play decently fast, spew hate in the chat, and still play OK.

I'm thinking I'll trade my just under 1BB/100 graph for his graph, if I get $115k + the PS Carribean Adventure trip. Then again, I couldn't play those hours.

Everyone keeps saying he dropped down to 1/2 but I don't see any hands of 1/2 on PTR, just 2/4

Or were they just joking and he has now dropped down to 2/4 for a bit.

PTR is 2/4 and higher I believe.

the only thing i cant understand is why he doesnt just get pointers from his buddy mi2...

in dbecks defense, he is not as big a loser as his other mass multi-tabling friends. to play that many tables and (according to TR) only be a -.34BB loser is pretty cool imo

edit: this doesnt mean i dont actively seek him out though

he is playing losing poker for 60 hours a week. on 15-ish tables. every week. all year long.
he is a rakeback whore, basically pokerstars owns his ass.
he mentioned using adderall.
he created a dreamworld where he is king of the droolers.

no thanks.


I probably wouldn't mind playing 30/35 hours/week for a while, but maximum 3-4 tables, and at a level where I am confident to be a winner, and rakeback and bonii should be extra income.
But I doubt that is ever going to happen though

Not much point changing tables in order to play with Dbeck. If he's not already playing on your table, he will be along shortly.

He makes more than most people in this forum. I can't really make fun of him that much. He has the time and it works.

I think back to when I was a new grad, maybe two hours out of college. I commuted 45 minutes each way to work more than 60 hours a week. I made 1/2 what he's likely to make this year. I had a crappy boss who wanted me to force the technicians who worked for me give him free overtime. All the while, I thought I was paying my dues and learning to be a better engineer. In later jobs, I learned a ton more, worked less hours, and was treated like a human being. I didn't know better in the first one.

1) Working from home 60 hours a week for a decent wage isn't the worst job ever.
2) You can learn to live with a lot.

I'm not trading places with him now, but I'm not saying "LOL look at that dummy, either". It is fine not to want to play with him. Calling him king of the droolers is more on you than him. I think he'd be more profitable at FR, but he didn't ask me.
If you're saying more at poker, I wonder big the majority of players he out-earns is. 80%? 90%? 95%?

I cant beleive he only makes 800VPP/hour 15 tabling 3/6. If he 8 tabled he would make close to 600.

i bet dbeckham is jerking off over the idea that SSSH is talking about him

No time. He has to do it while he's playing. 18 tables and one porn vid running. He gets in one stroke every half hour or so. Takes forever I imagine.

Sounds exhausting

No doubt he does. It's just I'd rather have some sort of a life.

i think that you are way off, Dbeckham would be decent winner in terms of bb if he would drop number of tables,.. and you would be probably loosers if you would play 15 tables -))

The problem with the supernova elite grinding $100k+ in bonuses every year thing is that you never know what the future holds, especially for US Players. The US government could put the kabosh down on online poker China-style. They could regulate it but tax it so heavily to the point that it's unbeatable (or marginally beatable). Pokerstars profits could die off so much that they start taking away the ability to earn $100k/yr through SNE benefits. It's an ever-changing landscape -- one that can not be counted on to remain unchanged going forward.

The result may be that a few years down the road, a 60 hour/wk grinder may find himself up **** creek as far as grinding out a liveable income is concerned. Either that or he'll realize that he's spent the last few years sitting in front of the computer, doing the same exact thing for 3000 hours that year and realize that he hates his life. He'll be forced to either improve his game to much higher stakes to eke out the income he's used to via less hours (very difficult for almost everyone) or he'll be forced to re-enter the workforce with a multi-year gap in his resume (if he had one started at all).

I mean, the $100k-from-poker-grinding baller lifestyle is obviously an appealing one to many but you just can't assume it's going to be sustainable year-in and year-out. It feels like a lot of mortgaging part of your future to make a little extra money than you normally would with the "standard" job route.

Its pretty funny, yesterday and today I have been adding some 1/2 tables to my usual 4 2/4 tables and today some 1/2 tag told me that I am the worst 1/2 regular (actually using the word "regular")... I must be "special" if 1,8k hands at 1/2 make me a regualr...

On another note.. how bad are the smallstakes games atm? Sickening

Depending on the time of day, I have been having very little trouble finding soft 2/4-3/6 games. Plus I run good.

west coast US weeknights have sucked so much ass lately for Low limit games

Hence why I live on the East Coast, what what!?