Well, like you mentioned, play every site available. There is more mid-highstakes cash running on various American sites than there is on PokerStars atm, if you weren't aware.

I'm just saying that I would never have a losing year. I don't have his ego to write AMA's on reddit about winning 10 million and I would certainly drop limits if I was having even close to a losing year.

I said above that Blitz is good at life not poker. I saw that heads up misread the board match on a straight lol.

To answer your last three questions, I'm not a good teacher so I only play. Phil's site is never going live so we are on pace with each other there.

1.1M all documented by the IRS, all online cash, all from America.

# of losing years : 0

Also, I want to bring up the point that the most difficult thing about being a pro is obviously federal and state. People like Patrick Antonius and people in the UK (i think) don't pay taxes on poker winnings so it's a lot easier compared to the 35%+ often taken by our gov;t

Just want to say that he has 2160 posts since he joined in 2008. That is not posting every day. I also like to hear his opinions and the opinions of any grinders (such as that guy who came in here saying he's been a midstakes reg since '07 and would advise anyone against becoming a pro).

I like it when discussions are filled with realism and cold hard facts, which guys like bump and upswinging are bringing to this thread.

Too many people are just wishful thinkers. Without actually analyzing the reality of the situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy

Maybe you should quit while you're behind...

I'm not one to come in on the Rich side of things very often, but he was bang on that your posts are full of ad hominems and straw men. And then when he calls you on it, your only reply is more ad hominems.

You should've not bothered replying rather than just confirming his point.

Wow, what changed in 3 hours?

Of course. But "what do you know, you're living out of your car" isn't a valid argument. If he's out to lunch on something, it should be easy enough to demonstrate how he is wrong.

Yes we need more cold hard facts from bumpnrun and upswinging.....

+1

I don't care if people want to comment on my lifestyle though, otherwise I wouldn't have posted about it on an internet forum .

upswinging is just making ad hominem attacks ITT because he can't win the argument. It's irrelevant to the argument.

What does my living in my car have to do with why we don't see 18-21 year olds rising up through the ranks? Nothing.

Thyme I said NL is dead. I didn't say poker was dead. To be more specific NL is dead in the scope of living middle-upper class life through playing NL cash exclusively. Low stakes NL games are still fun and extremely soft but you won't make much money.

I'm 90% confident with ~100 hours of devoted study + ~100 hours of low stakes online + post session analysis, any winning NL player can be a big winner in 20/40 and or 30/60 mixed games. Which has tremendous upside going forward with more play and study.

It's true that people are crushing and they are unknowns. It's because they're all playing mixed games (and have been for many years).

Well, if I was an 18-21 year old reading your PG&C I think I would seriously reconsider becoming a full time poker player.

The dream just doesn't look all that glamorous anymore.

To be fair, he's like the posterchild of what not to do. I mean, guy played a tournament that was 50% of his entire net worth and took 100% of his own action.

He's not the only one living in his car though.

I don't know anyone personally who plays mix games on a regular basis. There is 0 place to play them online(for Americans) and very few places across the country where you can find them running often(clearly a few places have plenty). The majority of people I know making significant money at poker are playing the Cadillac itself, NL Texas Hold Em' and some play PLO or both.

Of course the action in PLO and other games is usually much better, but people are in fact still terrible at the 2 card game, even online,though those games have become harder to find.

Here’s just one of these souls who needs saving.

You can run good for 2 years in a pretty insignificant sample, then call yourself gifted-bulletproof. Right. Sincerely hope you don’t take this path and if you do you survive the crash relatively unharmed. Because most people who decide to become professional gamblers do not

BroadwaySushy if you want to use me as an example of what being a pro poker player looks like, go ahead. You might as well go down to skid row, take some failed actor heroin addict bum, and use him as an example of how hard it is to make it in Hollywood. While ignoring the A-list celebs, people who actually made it, etc.

I'm not an example of a pro poker player. I'm an example of a delusional bum. Quit being obtuse.

Calling me and others idiots.... Insulting Freshtymes parenting.....

Welcome back to the thread!

easier to make money as a ROW for sure. if not, everyone would not have moved outside of america to play poker.

well that's a little harsh as well as all of your comments basically attacking rick every post. If he makes money playing poker outside of a full time job from home that is being a great father. Hard working too. If he makes 10k extra outside of work in a year that can go a long way towards his family.

ScotchOnDaRocks/ Kevin Haney? He is a poster/player who gets paid each month to write articles for twoplustwo magazine on mixed games. They are very hot right now, although i'm such a 5 card omahaholic that I don't quite understand why.

The 12 game runs at but all the highest stakes on swcpoker if you are ever looking for action. it's available world wide.

also, i see galfond is actually opening a site but not available to americans. so i was wrong there.

still sucks if not available to usa.

i figure if everyone is derailing this thread i can add my 2 cents as well..

definitely easier to print money playing ignition than "ROW" sites

You admit in your PGC that you are an aspiring pro. So maybe you are a good example in actual fact. A good example of the delusion that comes with that aspiration.

Like I said you are not the only one living in your car trying to be a pro and PGCing about it. I mean PGC is full of aspiring poker pros. How many of them do you think will actually make it past the first year?

There you go again projecting your own short comings onto others. Not that hard to find 2-4 hours a day to play. I wake up at 5 AM everyday to play for a few hours and play when everyone is sleeping/on my day off for just a few hours, easy game.

That doesn't sound like fun at all.

It isn't supposed to, that's what the beach and Disney World are for.

Lmao ty for fighting stupidity with comedy

As usual it's good to be an American.

The % of guys making significant money long term in NL are about as numerous as the % of online "good regs" who have lasted long term as adam mentioned. It's a myth. Many solid pgcs that "failed" are a testament to that as well.

There are numerous high stakes mixed games found around the country. But you're right about the limited selection of mid stakes games. All I was saying is that's where a motivated 18-21 year old should look if they want to play poker professionally. I think it would take a lot of work and independent study to get there (no different than any other real job), but it's realistically the only way to have a nice life playing professionally (i.e. Middle-upper class lifestyle in a nice area with a family as the sole income provider).

The guys grinding 2/5 and 5/T can barely support themselves let alone support middle-upper class family lifestyle.

the vast majority of guys making significant money long term in NL don't brag about it mate, pgcs that failed are irrelevent

Oh really. So how many guys making significant money long term are there compared to the failures? What percentage would you say?

That would be relevant.

A straw man argument as a retort? Can you come up with better?