I want to become a professional poker player

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read some articles , books, watch videos but i just can't play like a professional XD.....any help?
 
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good luck!! all dream can meet sacrifice and desire
 
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hmmm thanks yeah all dream can meet(must) sacrifice and the desire😊😊...i practice too😡😡😂😂 but i guess i gotta try harder 😣😣😣😳
 
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read some articles , books, watch videos but i just can't play like a professional XD.....any help?
i think that's the way to go, learn and play a lot.
But i heard something these days that makes a lot of sense: in order to be a poker pro, first you gonna have to learn to loose. Poker is a losing game.
 
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Depends on what you're playing. If it's freerolls, your win/loss rate means nothing. Freerolls (other than those where entry is very limited such as the CC FRC) are only very loosely based on poker. Winning at these simply means that you've had a lucky run. Low cost MTT tournaments (especially satellites and rebuys) are just about as bad.

Your best practice will come from playing cash games or single table sit and go's. Even the low cost ones are a vastly better indicator of your ability and potential.
 
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read some articles , books, watch videos but i just can't play like a professional XD.....any help?




You do understand you have told us nothing about yourself, your experience, qualifications, efforts to date? Offering any suggestions based on the information provided would be silly.
 
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Interesting - how much money is necessary to start a career as a professional poker player?
 
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Out of the blue? I suggest starting at very low stakes to get a feel first.
 
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hello you dont need ,juste analyze yourself and have your style of playing.....
 
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I would love to be a professional poker player too. But I don't have the skills, bankroll or ability to weather a poor run.

My suggestions if you are serious about doing this.

I'd spend a considerable amount of time not just playing, but recording everything I do during a game. hands I play, who they are against, how they started, middle, end. Take time during each day to look this over and find holes, leaks and fix them. I have read somewhere that 75% of your time should be playing poker, and 25% is working on the leaks in your game.

Emotion - Lose it. Find your triggers and how you prevent them from playing your "A" game.

Ego - Use it when you need to , but lose that too when you are evaluating your play. Learn to be honest with yourself.

Discipline - Get it. Should have room with the emotion you lost.

Bankroll Management - Find a system that works for you.

Set Goals - It is much easier to rate and evaluate your game if you set clear measurable goals. Not just I want to be better tomorrow than today. Set a goal like, I want to improve my hourly expected rate by 25% in Omaha by September 30th. One that date approaches, look at why you achieved it or why you missed it. In both cases, what could have made you better?

Finally, find out what your expected hourly rate would need to be to be able to fulfill this dream. Ask yourself if that is a realistic possibility for you and do you have enough money to survive a bad run.

Hope those ideas are helpful.

Good Luck on your journey.
 
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You made a post with a question none of us could give you advice on right now. You have told us nothing. Here is a good example. What can I do about tilt, because I've jumped into the shark tank. But for real how long have you been playing? Your question is for you and you only to answer. Look at it like this. Every poker player started some how, and some made it, but many more have not. So how do you plan to start? How much money can you put into it now? How long do you think it will take you to get there. Can you set a goal that big and go there without quitting. Just think about some of these. We are here to help when you need it. The only real dumb question is the ones you don't post. And I would say you need to get started. If you want to start middle or at the top, I would say to start with $5000 middle and $10,000 up top. Someone else may have a different amount. GL to you
 
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people with such ambitions are my kings, it's very very dangerous vice, and when to slip into all that can be very easy to lose everything in life, and without it no later not be able to because it's like a drug, people play poker for fun, you will lose everything in life, few of them have succeeded but it is much more of them that are lost
 
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I would love to be a professional poker player too. But I don't have the skills, bankroll or ability to weather a poor run.

My suggestions if you are serious about doing this.

I'd spend a considerable amount of time not just playing, but recording everything I do during a game. Hands I play, who they are against, how they started, middle, end. Take time during each day to look this over and find holes, leaks and fix them. I have read somewhere that 75% of your time should be playing poker, and 25% is working on the leaks in your game.

Emotion - Lose it. Find your triggers and how you prevent them from playing your "A" game.

Ego - Use it when you need to , but lose that too when you are evaluating your play. Learn to be honest with yourself.

Discipline - Get it. Should have room with the emotion you lost.

Bankroll Management - Find a system that works for you.

Set Goals - It is much easier to rate and evaluate your game if you set clear measurable goals. Not just I want to be better tomorrow than today. Set a goal like, I want to improve my hourly expected rate by 25% in Omaha by September 30th. One that date approaches, look at why you achieved it or why you missed it. In both cases, what could have made you better?

Finally, find out what your expected hourly rate would need to be to be able to fulfill this dream. Ask yourself if that is a realistic possibility for you and do you have enough money to survive a bad run.

Hope those ideas are helpful.

Good Luck on your journey.

and this is just the beginig mate...how sad playing poker for a living is easy..his LIEING :)
 
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You must rid your self of all fear. Pros have absolutely no fear if losing and make their money off of those that do.
 
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You must play a tremendous amount of poker hands and also learn to understand the players you play against.
 
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read some articles , books, watch videos but i just can't play like a professional XD.....any help?



I also want to become a professional poker player - in my reasoning so that will be able to tell about themselves with no satisfaction from the game and doing relatively favorable balance on the plus by playing all the time. Of course they will there were to fail, around a series of mathematical bad duels. Often while playing can sometimes compare yourself to the child in the fog light which is looking to exit the maze.
It alone create statistics where the game is played - of course in a group of more compact because in the group open league does not make sense in my opinion, because there are playing differs players, often to chance, who no longer play on - but already as we get to the premier league this should do the sign for players who behave often bluff and the good who enter only pewnikamii, only those who still limps - tzwanych call station. Professional poker player you can be - you can achieve this, it is not only to play hold'em, but also interested in OMAHA, which is very nice poker - and also also in my case this forgotten little poker 5 Card Draw - I really liked this kind of games recently
Ending my short description I wish you all - so that they could once say about myself - I am a professional poker player with a positive balance and progressive future-Progress;)
 
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Maybe reconsider. All the poker pros that I've read about say they were actually happier before become a full time poker pro. Semi pro seems like a good compromise.
 
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good luck, keep practice (i want too, but for now it`s only wish)
 
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You do understand you have told us nothing about yourself, your experience, qualifications, efforts to date? Offering any suggestions based on the information provided would be silly.



Pretty much this.
 
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Hard to answer with very little info. Are you already playing low-stakes and crushing it? Have you figured out whether you are better at cash or SNGs? Are you willing to dedicate hours per week to reviewing your plays and taking an unemotional look at what you need to improve upon? If you are already doing these things, move up a level and see if you are still crushing the game. Take things one step at a time and once you can make more $ consistently (including beating variance!) than you can at your current job you can consider playing professionally. GL!
 
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You should analyse your each session. Hard work and your game will be more effective.
 
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Someone asked above how much money you need to start with.
Any good poker book has a section on bankroll management and the guideline I see repeatedly is to have an absolute minimum of 100x your buy-in. If you fall below that limit you should reduce your stakes. A serious amateur player need have only 50-30x the buy-in and a casual player can get along with 10x.
But seriously, if you haven't seen this somewhere already then you haven't done enough learning to be considering this as a profession!
 
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practice a lot and find someone who can help you.
 
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