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Originally Posted by nationstation
Running sims for hours a day doesn't seem like a good way to spend your time to me. Not sure how helpful it is for the immediate task of crushing the micros (good longterm, but there is no longterm if you lose this). Would be way better to use that time to go to the gym, play more hours, or just chill out and sleep more imo.
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My main motivation for taking up on the bet was to feel like I'm crushing the games again and figure out if that's even possible for me anymore. I want to get back that feeling I had before that I'm close to the best player in every MTT I reg (<--obv not refering to HSMTT stuff here) and that I'm ahead of the curve in every way. Feels like a faraway memory now but these days used to exist... so while I agree that the best way to win the bet itself would be to do as you suggested, doing so wouldn't really benefit me at all with regards to my life choice dilemmas. I'd rather realize that I don't have it in me anymore and be forced to quit than keep getting by without really getting anywhere and one day realizing I'm 40 with a 20-year gap in my resume.
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Originally Posted by royalhd
O and what's your thought on Spins btw? Not interested in grinding those?
Xoxo
My thoughts are that **** PokerStars, they can EAD and I'm not even opening their client. If they were a product of another site I still wouldn't play them though, I don't want to win or lose the challange because of variance
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Originally Posted by DJSirMatthew
About poker being a pipedream, doesn't that depend heavily on one's monetary goals? Sure, being settled for live through poker is a pipedream nowadays, but making 2-3k a month f.e. still seems quite achievable? Or am I sorely mistaken?
Regards your challenge, it seems a super tough one but I do wish you the best of stamina (not luck as that's overrated).
(answering below)
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Originally Posted by the4bettingmonk
It has to be put in the context of what's happening currently. AI and software are driving the biggest change in society since the industrial revolution. If you're motivated enough to make 3k a month from poker than you could make a lot more money in tech and with a faster learning curve.
Programming is still nowhere near as intuitive an experience as poker is currently but it's getting close.
What monk said, plus that poker destroys your soul, takes away years from your life, stresses the bejesus out of you, [insert 50000 other minus sides here], and creates a CV gap that might be tough to explain depending on what you want to do post-poker. It's entirely possible to waste your best years playing poker just to make ~what you'd make doing something else. Yeaah I get you have the "freedom" and stuff, but that can also feel like a shackle. Who here hasn't felt guilty taking a day off when you could be playing making a buck? Who here hasn't had a sleepless night over losing a ****ton of money "working"? Etcetc. If I was from a poor country where making 3k/month was 3x what others make then sure I think it would be worth it. But in my home country $3k/month is average wage and earning it playing poker is the nut worst option.
Personally (I'm typing this on cell phone so I'll be quick, sorry) I also feel like I want to contribute to the world in some way, and I don't want my life's work to be mastering a card game. Obv this could be different if I was making so much €€€ that I could then use that money on different projects etc. But being realistic, I think there's a bunch of career options for me where I would kick ass and that I'd find ultimately more fulfilling than poker. I know that sounded kinda naive and I don't mean to try to portray myself as some sort of altruist, I just feel like I wish my work had a positive effect on other people (even if it's just a work community or something) as opposed to just making money for myself winning it from other people (including some who couldn't even afford to lose it). I don't have a big moral dilemma with the last part or anything, especially as I was a gambling addict since I was 10 and spewed away all my money degening throughout my teens, but as I've gotten older doing something more meaningful has become more and more important to me long-term.
Guess I'll add that I'm pretty competitive so again if I was really crushing I'd be happy to put any other career paths on hold, because the feeling of crushing your competition is like a drug to me and if I could find my 2011 mojo I don't think I'd be thinking about the above things all that much. But the 3k/month grind definitely just isn't worth it for me personally longterm.
As for your actual question, I would guesstimate that a somewhat steady 2-3k/kk playing MTTs would be attainable to most people still but that's sort of the ceiling unless you're really good ("really good" can mean many things, including multitabling or whoring yourself out on twitch or whatever). When I started ppl were making 15k/month on rakeback alone 25tabling playing 10vpip. The ceiling of the monthly wage that anyone with half a brain can earn goes down every year/month and I feel like it's now reached the treshold where it's not worth it for me unless I can be ahead of the pack quite comfortably.
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Originally Posted by Logical user
With all due respect, if you think studying of any kind is a good idea with regards to this bet, then the game has passed you by already. PIO etc should only be necessary for very strong (truly intelligent proven winners) players who play high stakes. If you can't crush these stakes for 20BB/100 or so with no study then its definitely time to retire. If you really want to win the bet then stop playing all fancy vs people who barely know the rules, just use common sense and a solid exploitative strategy.
Would like to see some 20BB/100 graphs even from 5ABI over a sustainable sample. I'm not saying it can't be done, and it obv just really depends on whether you late reg a bunch, play rebuys, ante up, etcetc, but in general I think 15BB/100 has got to be the cap even at this low or you're making huge regging mistakes. I'm 12.5BB/100 so far after the first month and while I could certainly play better I don't think it's attainable to make all that much more given that I late reg a bunch with 30BB etc. The rest I answered above. Obviously exploitation is the key but I want to learn / maintain my skills too. I always was a much better coach than I was a player and I've always really enjoyed thinking about poker strategy, half the fun is in strat if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by romeo4you
can you post your actually scheduled
or tell us what field site you consider easyest?
thanks
No schedule, I just reg whatever is up when I play. I avoid mass fields for the most part, I'd say my average field size is 200ish players. Every site feels pretty easy, if I had to choose one I'd choose Winamax, the games are easiest on Unibet I would say tho.
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Originally Posted by HardcoreGamer
I thought some of these were being streamed. Any schedule?
I'm streaming once a week in Finnish (made a deal with a Finnish site). They gave me permission to do one English stream which I'll do probably soonish. Will post ITT when I know when it happens. I'm not into the whole twitch thing all that much and have 0 interest in building up some sort of brand so I'm doing it entirely for some side income. Which is probably a pretty good idea given I might go broke on the prop
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Originally Posted by the4bettingmonk
I think Chuck can really get stuck in and get this challenge done. He has the work ethic and sheer discipline to pull it off. There is no chance, no chance he would do something off the wall and visit Macedonia. I mean Macedonia? No chance bill.
edit: Chuck is currently in Macedonia after a 3 day bender in Athens - top kek
Who are you on my Facebook? Lol
Like I said in the OP I had a trip planned that I was aware of before taking up on the bet. It was negotiated in the terms that I will be gone for 7 specific days (aka this trip) and won't be allowed to play during that time. It was a trip with an old non-poker friend and I didn't want to let him down so if this was not possible I would simply not have taken the bet. I'm flying home tomorrow, which is day 7 of the trip, and I'll be back on the grind on Friday as usual.
I have a couple of live poker trips in December tho that are actually semi irresponsible but I'll try to make them supershort. Shouldn't be a problem since I bust every live MTT by level 2 anyway. But I wanted to play a couple more birds before quitting so I couldn't hesitate.