its like low limit cash, it might be beatable for less than a mcdonalds employee if you put in thousands of hours of work and study. its a trap.

limon, do you regret not growing a beard and paying a woman to rub her fingers through it in public?

You try playing 20 vpip for 3 hours at a time and see how sore your beard is afterwards

squad goals.

absolutely perfect, he says he can ignore my content while....not being able to ignore my content. he is a re+arded slave, but hes my slave.

even if you give these small stakes "tourney pros" a 30% roi (which is probably double what they can really achieve) they are making $150 on a $550 tourney with at least an average 12 hour time sink (some of these 500s go three days til a winner) thats a whopping $12.50 an hour. 1ks which you definitely have to travel and pay travel costs for get you all the way up to $25 an hour!!! Mcdonalds night manager territory!!!

lets be honest - most of these 1/3 guys either live with a spouse that pays the bills or live with their parents. 15/hr or hell even 20-25/hr is dogshit pay - works in a sleepy town in rural America maybe, but where I live that's called being poor. A pro 1/3 player is similar to a pro golfer that shoots 100 - just gotta laugh.

and the part people overlook is its NO FUN being in a crappy card room looking at red and black rectangles for hours on end, it might be fun for a little while, casinos can fool you, but once the scales fall off your eyes its just another ****ing JOB. I had a 9-5 jobs for decades (and made big bank), none of them were worse than the idea of grinding small stakes poker for a living in a dying industry.

Exactly my point. And somehow despite being willing and in some cases begging to sell at 1.3 it doesn't dawn on them the putrid hourly and super high variance that comes along with these things. Just an absolute waste of time if you're actually trying to make money from them.

But of course some yokle has to win and 500 other guys just as good as whatever random yokle wins will say "I'm just as good as him that could be me".

They're just chasing that mythical carrot on a stick. Hell I've met people who want to tell me or when brag about their 30-50k scores from 5-10 years ago. A few even bragged about their lol circuit rings. And yet all these time later broke and grinding 300-1k events hoping for another dopamine hit.

Tournaments are to dumb breakeven regs what poker in general is to fish. They somehow can't see they are falling for the exact same trap, sucked in by disillusions of skill, never ever ever ever studying or seriously reflecting upon their strategy or honestly calculating their hourly and winrate, and paying rake hoping to spin up their last 2k in the savings account so they can be like their hero on pokergo who has some combination of double their IQ, 20x their work ethic, a lifelong sunrun, or really just better at business and networking than poker.

It's also interesting to see how all these weird pathetic trolls come out of the woodwork trying to provoke limon (successfully). I don't really know what it is about him that makes people so upset. Clearly they are jealous of the attention he is getting on the thread or something because any rational person would simply not click on the thread if they thought it was all bs. He is a character and people take everything he says wayyy too seriously. But I can totally see how he sets up all these home games and sports bets and golf bets given people (for some reason) think he's a total moron and fraud, and then get their money taken because he's miles sharper than they ever thought.

Pretty good analysis. You see that an important part of the bit is actually being much richer smarter and more successful than the morons you’re trolling, that’s what makes it stick. That’s why they freak out. They know in their heart that you are right. You missed one part but I can’t correct you or it ruins the whole thing.

On a totally unrelated note:

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Agreed - casinos are very depressing filled with a bunch of life losers - not a place you want to spend 25+ hours a week at.

AHAHAHAHA. Why you cursing me though old man, relax

Well ofc anyone who plays 1/3 “professionally” is gonna be poor lol (and I personally wouldn’t necessarily denigrate people just for being poor), but the point was that the misery of grinding 1/3 in a shitty casino all day around a bunch of miserable people is probably still significantly less awful than working at McDonald’s for an equivalent wage

Bump bump bump little slave birch. Good little slave keep my post at the top of the forum like the dog you are. Hahahahahhahaahahha.

I’m also shytting down your throat as well. So there’s that.

if your only other option is working at mcdonalds you have a zero chance of being a winning poker player. at every level it requires decent brain power, enough to get a good office job at worst.

Thread saver. The time I was almost killed by mark k. The course charged him $1600 for repairs!!!!

i think i know who the liberalz are in this linear waste of space

This is gold and so true.

Not to mention barely making above the $15 minimum wage with no benefits and in a profession that 99% of people look down at..

Limon,

Can you tell us some stories from your rounder days, when you traveled for work but only to cities with no limit Holdem games?

I do the same for work, but I’m in an industry that is infinitely more gambly than poker, so being a live low stakes winner is beneficial but all my good stories are about drinking/drugs and liaisons with locals. Interested to see if you battled with staying at the table with people that think a straight beats a flush or if you left to party.

who?

What is your opinion on a staked player playing in a game with his backer?

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completely unethical. along with horses playing in the same game or people swapping and even cash game backing in general has a foul odor. in many ways it violates the one player to a hand rule.