Hey Everyone,

I am new the this forum. I wanted to start a thread about being a HUSNG pro. My apologies if a similar thread has been posted in the past... I couldn't find it.

I am not a HUSNG Pro but I definately aspire to be one someday (atleast I think I do). However, I haven't ever had any conversations about the life/lifestyle the accompanies it.

So, these questions go are for all of you that are making a living at playing HUSNG's:

-What's your lifestyle like?
-Do you enjoy it?
-What are the top pro's and con's of choosing this path?
-How did you get friends/families/significant others to understand and accept what you do?
-Do you have balance in your life?
-What would your advice be to someone aspiring to be a HUSNG Pro?

I appreciate any feedback you can give me. I am really curious to see some of your answers/opinions.

there was a similar thread like this and a lot of regs replied in it
try and use search function

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How come there isn't sticky with links to most useful threads (and wells) in HU forums? Maybe we should make a thread where people could recommend good threads and then somebody makes a list and stickies it.

I know FAQ thread has some links but they are mostly really really old threads, pretty much worthless nowadays. IMO we should make like "Top 20 HUNL threads" poll like every 6 months and then gather those links somewhere.

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I'm no pro, but am at the beginning stages of becoming a reg. I might be able to comment about what I know about HU SnG pros...

The answer to most of these questions is:
- You will always be on tilt.
- Very few players are able to continue for long periods of time (2+ years) with any significant volume playing HU SnGs.
- If you aspire to be a pro, I would wait until you can put a year's worth of your normal salary away before quitting your job and going for it. Then, withdraw it (leaving yourself a moderately sized BR for the stake you want to start going pro at). HU SnGs are just...dead money...for such a long time...if you're playing 2 tables, and you're as low as 50$ HuSnG, a 65% winrate should yield about 100$/hour (of actual play...waiting to get seated cuts into that). So it blows most other jobs out of the water pretty quickly.
However, downswings can be terrible HU. This is why you have the year buffer...

My roommate quit his job to go pro about a month and a half ago. He only has about 3 months buffer.
He went on a downswing after week 2, barely got any hands in for the next two weeks, and this month hasn't played a hand.
He mostly just parties.
Uhhhhh, so...like I said, it's pretty hard to play well (or at all) when you put yourself to that kind of pressure. Keep rolling up in stakes until you reach a peak. Improve your game constantly, and put it into the future. I would suggest reading Jungleman's well.
Once you get your bankroll to a place where you can withdraw a year's salary and still have 60bi at a stake that you think you're okay playing with a solid winrate and for enough profit to live off of.
Don't withdraw for the entire year, and see where you are after the year is over.
It's enough time to know if you'll ever need to work again.
a few months really isn't, IMHO. My friend is a good example. He just wasn't feeling it for a couple weeks, and now he has to make at LEAST 1500$ in the next month, or get a job.

Sticky is really old someone should update

65% winrate? Where do you people come up with this stuff?

Yeah, 65% winrate is nowhere near sustainable...

But it's not really necessary for $100/hr, I have just above 57% winrate at 50 turbos and I'm making close to that (mostly 3-4 tabling). It's over a small sample and I don't think I'm gonna sustain it with my current skill level, but just wanted to point out that you don't need to have that high winrate for $100/hr.

still 100/hr is pretty good at 50s

better to have a solid plan outside poker life man... be a poker pro nowdays is not easy at all.. and if u want to make that at least do that at cash games where there are much more possibilities (play soft games live.. find soft games online.. etc etc..) and making way more money in the case u are really talented and good at that.

aspiring to become a pro husg player with the volume of these days not already being a 50$ or 100$ expert is somehow a dream...

make a bounch of money out of poker is getting hard and harder and i would never consider to do a profession as boring as stay all the day at the pc ALONE playng a game. (this game drains all your energy man.. and handle the swings is not easy at all)

just my opinion and sry for english, hope is understable

I started a couple of months ago, i am yet to build up a solid bank roll yet, just measling around 1k due to personal spending habits but i find that even with $22 husngs you can clear around $800 a week no problem as long as you put in the hours (at the right time).
the lifestyle that comes with it is down to personal choice, with the main theme being freedom, freedom to travel and just need a laptop to play, freedom to do pretty much what you want when you want, no boss to answer to, albeit a little anti social at times, but i wouldn't change it at the moment.
i definately enjoy it more than i would working in a bank, or for that reason any other salaried office job with regular hours, but it is still a job at the end of the day and i take more pleasure from the times i'm not playin poker.
i think if you're a husng grinder the swings will be less than that of multi tabling 9 handed sngs, 6max, and mtt's, since i started i have never been down more than 15buyins in one day, and i normally operate with a 40-70 buyin bankroll. i can't comment on whether thats the case for $50 and up.
i find that family and friends who don't play poker come in two categories, one who will support you from the get go for living the dream, and the other is reluctant and see's it as gambling. for these people show them results on a regular basis, a steady wage, and they will eventually come around.
as for advice, PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE - use the heads up forums here, really be hard on yourself. always stop playing when you go on tilt, even if you still think your playing well in the call check fold deparement you may be slipping when it comes to bet sizing, and you always want to have your edge, poker will always be there tomorrow. play at the right times to, friday to sunday can be almost twice as profitable as the other 4 days of the week.
and as for balance, that is a result of personal mindset, i think a healthy body is a healthy mind, exercise, get a regular sleeping pattern on the go, and make sure you're not sitting at your computer chasing down losses if you can be doing something more enjoyable with real humans.

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Thanks alot! I appreciate the insight! Definately some different pro's and con's than I thought of.