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PuntinHundies
Rising Star
Silver Level
I'm Gonna Do It!!
Yes I want to become a professional player, and I am actively taking steps toward that goal!
I have been playing on and off since the "moneymaker era", before Full Tilt and poker stars were banned in the USA. This year marks my second year as a profitable live game player and I am currently crushing my local casino's tournament schedule.
I plan on signing up for an online coaching program such as Upswing or Raise Your Edge next month and putting my nose to the grindstone to take my game to the next level.
Failure is not an option. I WILL SUCCEED!
Anyone can do it if they are determined and willing to put in the work. I look forward to sharing my ups and downs with the community here!
Yes I want to become a professional player, and I am actively taking steps toward that goal!
I have been playing on and off since the "moneymaker era", before Full Tilt and poker stars were banned in the USA. This year marks my second year as a profitable live game player and I am currently crushing my local casino's tournament schedule.
I plan on signing up for an online coaching program such as Upswing or Raise Your Edge next month and putting my nose to the grindstone to take my game to the next level.
Failure is not an option. I WILL SUCCEED!
Anyone can do it if they are determined and willing to put in the work. I look forward to sharing my ups and downs with the community here!
Nikolay Nakhaev
Legend
Silver Level
all begin with a small one. I think you. And everyone will be able to fulfill their dreams if he makes every effort to patience diligence. [emoji106] [emoji122] [emoji110]
Miguel Chacon
Visionary
Silver Level
Yes Of Course! I think anything is possible if you really want it .. I discover this awesome game about a year ago at my 21 years old I'm currently one semester away from finnish college and get a degree in Accounting although I like it, I like more Poker and in my country obviusly make more money with poker that almost any job here so recently this las three months I decided to give me a chance to become a Professional Poker player Thanks to Cardschat I see that dream possible finally have my bankroll to start playing cash games and some micro MTTs I'm still between NL2 and NL5 but I'm sure as soon I get HM2 and PokerTracker I'll be lot more comfortable counting my hands and stats that in my current spreadsheat where I manually have to introduce the data... who knows I might play next years WCOOP or SCOOP or PSPC or Win a sunday Million ! Sky is the limit xD get so excited talking about this Good Luck for averyone!
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Slip_Me_Aces
Rock Star
Silver Level
I would like to become a poker pro but I don't think its for me in reality. I think poker is very stressful to begin with but when you combine the fact that your income would fluctuate all the time due to poker swing it would be a very uneasy feeling not being on a stable income. Even if I knew I could win at poker I don't think I would commit ALL my time to it because of this reason. If anything I get more piece of mind by having my 8-5 and knowing what income I will be receiving each month!
m0t22
Visionary
Silver Level
I also think as you partner!!
We will fight every day against our own internal enemy and have more disposition and discipline to thrive in this game and mental sport.
It is important to evolve every day, even if it is only one percent.:beerglass
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paulw
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I have been playing for 25 years and trying to become a pro for the last 20 years, I probably have more hands behind me than most of the Pro's,
I play games from 25c to $1500, online and live, I have had numerous chances in the big games only to come up short, I know why I fail at the higher level, its not that I get all the badbeats in the big games lol, its simply because they are more skilful than me,
I have played against many pro's that make a living from it, and a few that have made a lot of money from the game, the gap from me to them is big,
I am still trying to learn a few things but the study is extremely hard for me, I accept the level that I am at, and have a strategy that still gives me chances at the higher levels.
For the thousands that dream of becoming a pro GL.
I play games from 25c to $1500, online and live, I have had numerous chances in the big games only to come up short, I know why I fail at the higher level, its not that I get all the badbeats in the big games lol, its simply because they are more skilful than me,
I have played against many pro's that make a living from it, and a few that have made a lot of money from the game, the gap from me to them is big,
I am still trying to learn a few things but the study is extremely hard for me, I accept the level that I am at, and have a strategy that still gives me chances at the higher levels.
For the thousands that dream of becoming a pro GL.
m0t22
Visionary
Silver Level
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.I'm in the micro, not over a dollar played, hehehe. I'm trying to join a team here in brazil to improve my game and test my knowledge in practice.Until then, I have been following this site a lot and even not playing here, it has helped me a lot! For those who are at the beginning of the action, what do you recommend?I'm studying mindset, preflop, mdf, 3-bet and moves. What do you recommend and by what order?
TNKNS! :fight:
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paulw
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Hi there, if you are studying these, I feel you will be well on the way to being successful at poker,
I will give you my views now, not how I learned 25 years ago lol, although dont forget I am only a break even player, not a winning player
I am 95% a satellite player, the other 5% Tournys so my learning views are based on these not cash.
Mindset, I think its very important to have your head in the right place, and to feel comfortable with your surroundings,
HUD this is a must for beginners imo. learn the hud, and its pop up's inside out, start off with the basic stats, and when you have learned them add more, keep comparing your numbers to better players , go online theres loads of video's about huds, watch the streamers/any videos of big players with huds online, see how much they rely on them, you will soon see what kinda numbers you should be reaching for,
Once you learn the hud you can visualise in live play how you take this forward and rate people compared to your online hud stats, if I had learned with a HUD I believe it would have saved me Thousands in my early days,
Preflop play, there's loads out there online to perfect this
Your position play, this is pretty easy to learn the basics, and once again the hud will show you your opponents weakness through their position play.
Start as you mean to go on, learn how to target weak players, this is easily done with your hud, at lower stakes especially the game is filled with flat callers and limpers
Learn how and when to flat/float correctly
Bet size, c/bets 3bets and push/fold,
I think these are more or less the basics, if I was a beginner now, I would make sure I had these foundations set in stone. and then comes the studying side of it such as GTO which I struggle with, although I am finally trying the hand/range reading side of the game at the moment which for me is not easy.
Best of luck m0t22 and I hope you make it.
Robin Moura
Rock Star
Silver Level
Would you like guys to become a pro poker player? Of course by doing that means to play poker for a living
for sure the dream of most members and live poker
AKQ
Legend
Bronze Level
You ever walk home broke after a game or lost more than you could and live in an environment in which everyone around you is pessimistic.The best pros have had their souls crushed by this game. NBC used to run an online qualifier for the 64th spot in the NBC NATIONAL HEADS UP CHAMPIONSHIP,a series of bracket tournaments where the top 10 would advance to a another tournament to play 1000 top ten finalists after climbing it and making the final 100 so i dominate and played absolutely amazing folded KK preflop to AA ran chip monster the entire way.We get down to 16 people and i have 70% of the chips left in play and my computer decides to just stop getting internet.I never got back on that night no matter what I did. A pitcher from the new york yankees or something like that had won it and i watched on Live TV as Daniel Negreanu said well that guys the qualifier so we know hes got to be really good to go through such deep fields...those words were meant for me and it crushes my soul to this day.I won that tournament in my mind, I believe I was hacked in someway... Sometimes no matter how much you wanna be a pro you just wont
Whodahustla
Rock Star
Silver Level
What do you mean?
I already am!
Would you like guys to become a pro poker player? Of course by doing that means to play poker for a living
I already am!
