Professional Poker Player in Southern California Crushing It?

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I think im gonna die if i see another one of these God tier graphs.

Confirmed spit tea all over my keyboard
 
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This HH is the best thing i ever read, Deuces watch out for these tough 1/3 games.
THEY'LL GET YA!
 
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People drawing out on you is part of poker. What we want to do is give them incorrect odds to call and bet for value. A lot of bad players overbet shove pre-flop/OTF or 3-bet too big with AA just so that they can win the hand right there and not get outdrawn on. This type of thinking is results oriented and a great way to miss out on a ton of value. You shoved 33 in that hand because fish will call with many worse hands like flush draws and overpairs, which you crush. I'm not sure how you bet, but from the way you emphasize you don't want people to outdraw you, your betting sizings are probably not optimal. You're probably bombing it when you have top pair+. You're probably losing value, much more especially when you move up in stakes where people probably don't stack off as often with naked FDs/call near-pot or a PSB with straight draws/FDs/gutshots/2nd pair/bottom pair/underpairs. Your play is probably really transparent, but that should be fine for 1/3. Just something to think about.

Congratulations on your winning month. Variance shouldn't be as bad live vs online since the players are terrible, but variance can still hit you pretty hard. You are lucky to not have gone broke with your initial shot at 1-3. You could have easily gone broke also with 10BI, and even with 16BI it's still not impossible to go broke. You could end up losing a bunch of all-ins consecutively, running into coolers, etc. I recommend not taking a shot at 2-5 with a limited bankroll. Good luck!
 
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People drawing out on you is part of poker. What we want to do is give them incorrect odds to call and bet for value. A lot of bad players overbet shove pre-flop/OTF or 3-bet too big with AA just so that they can win the hand right there and not get outdrawn on. This type of thinking is results oriented and a great way to miss out on a ton of value. You shoved 33 in that hand because fish will call with many worse hands like flush draws and overpairs, which you crush. I'm not sure how you bet, but from the way you emphasize you don't want people to outdraw you, your betting sizings are probably not optimal. You're probably bombing it when you have top pair+. You're probably losing value, much more especially when you move up in stakes where people probably don't stack off as often with naked FDs/call near-pot or a PSB with straight draws/FDs/gutshots/2nd pair/bottom pair/underpairs. Your play is probably really transparent, but that should be fine for 1/3. Just something to think about.

Congratulations on your winning month. Variance shouldn't be as bad live vs online since the players are terrible, but variance can still hit you pretty hard. You are lucky to not have gone broke with your initial shot at 1-3. You could have easily gone broke also with 10BI, and even with 16BI it's still not impossible to go broke. You could end up losing a bunch of all-ins consecutively, running into coolers, etc. I recommend not taking a shot at 2-5 with a limited bankroll. Good luck!

I probably have 10 BI. I do not look at it that way that is such a terrible way to look at Poker "I have 10 Buy-Ins that I can lose and feel comfortable lol" Wow No thanks. I go the casino with the mindset of playing the best poker I can play.

Example of my mindset:

How much will i make today?
How many hours will i play?
I will leave once I have cleared my quota of 300.00$
I will follow my guide and template of what cards to play, and from what positions.
I will make sure that if and when I put all my chips in the middle that I have a clear and confident decision in the hand that I am the favorite.
I will do my best to play a smart game.
Take a break every 2-3 hours. Recoup as to how the table is playing and what adjustments I can make.

So yes, this is my mindset. Going to do everything to avoid Variance. People look at variance as if it's just something like all your money disappears in the course of one night. Variance to me more so is having my Aces beat by Kings. Or getting straight over higher straight by the river. Or a King high flush well your opponent has Ace high flush. In those situations there really is nothing you can do. Set over set for that matter falls into that category too.

I flop a set of Jacks well my opponent flops a set of Queens. It happens and I stacked off. That is just bad luck.

If you study hard and keep training you will stay ahead of the game. Is what I think.
 
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Exitos friend I hope everything will go well for you and achieve very good results
 
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Online is all mathematical decisions. It take forever to produce real money online. I play the 25/50 cent games 6 max. I'm going up and up. But it's all mathematical and sequence. In live play everything is tells, psychology, image, having the guts to obtain glory.
 
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Very interesting thread, I wish you the best of luck with you're quest, hope you're graph keeps up climbing and never goes down. You are very brave to quit your job and try to make a living playing poker. Please keep up this thread
so we can support you along the way.
 
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I had to make a new graph, since I went off the charts in the first one.

Last night was a tough game.

I started off at 300$ buy in only to get completely stacked off by the deep-stack with 800$ behind .....

I flopped a set on a 3c,4h,5h board.

I pushed my set of 3's in with 221$ all in in hopes of keeping them from drawing out on me 2 other players in the hand.

How it unfolded:

Calls around to UTG 3 who raises to 20.00$ pre-flop.
I call with pocket 3's from the HJ (Something I never ever do, knowing that 3's are such a weak hand and am certainly not getting pot odds, mistake on my part)
Button calls 20.00$ pre-flop.
Everyone else folds

Flop: 3c, 4h, 5h

UTG3 bets out 40$ into a 70$ pot
HJ (ME) Shoves all-in for 222$ with my set of 3's
Button 222$ (Guy flopped a straight with 6/7 off suite and called a raise pre-flop..)
UTG3 calls 222$ all in (has a flush and straight draw with Ace/6 of hearts)

I seriously thought I was good, I was only scared of a set of 4's and a set of 5's. I honestly figured these guys had big pairs or, a flush draw.

When the guy turned over 6/7 off I could not believe he called a huge raise like that with that junk. Oh well bad luck. 1/78 he flops a straight.
This hand had check/fold written all over it for me too. But I never let sets go, ever. It's all or nothing. Unless there is an absolutely amazing reason (Suited boards, this board, Tons of players)

To sum up my story, I was in the hole -450.00$ at one point. By the end of the night though, I ended up leaving with 58.00$ in profit so yes, it took very hard work and just some good playing I guess. Waiting for the right spots to chose.

The last time I had a negative day was maybe the 29th of January. When I do go into the negative I am really tough on myself. I study even harder. Find out where I went wrong, how can I fix this problem etc.

Why not shove pre so the fish can't draw out on you with 76?
 
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I think im gonna die if i see another one of these God tier graphs.

Confirmed spit tea all over my keyboard


Hard to imagine winners like this exist, but here you go.


This HH is the best thing i ever read, Deuces watch out for these tough 1/3 games.
THEY'LL GET YA!

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Online is all mathematical decisions. It take forever to produce real money online. I play the 25/50 cent games 6 max. I'm going up and up. But it's all mathematical and sequence. In live play everything is tells, psychology, image, having the guts to obtain glory.

Is someone writing these down
 
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This thread is a spoof right?

I'm a pro, I've played for almost a month and won X amount live. I'm quitting all my jobs, and crushing 1/3 live.

Please... where's the punch line?
 
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I don't play cash, but I might hang out in this section more often. You regs are funny.
 
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This thread is a spoof right?

I'm a pro, I've played for almost a month and won X amount live. I'm quitting all my jobs, and crushing 1/3 live.

Please... where's the punch line?

take it easy, lets just see where it goes.
 
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Hello ;)
I would like to ask if we can see a proof that you really raised your bankroll to 4k ? anyway if is not fake what you are doing I wish you the best , and I hope we will see more results posted by you here.
 
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Hi ;)
I would like to ask if we can see a proof that you really raised your bankroll to 4k ? anyway if is not fake what you are doing I wish you the best , and I hope we will see more results posted by you here.

Didn't you see his hand-written graph? The line just goes up, what more proof do you need?
 
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Didn't you see his hand-written graph? The line just goes up, what more proof do you need?

To be fair to him, its no different to any other graph. It just happens to be on paper.
 
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take it easy, lets just see where it goes.
I agree.

I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt and say he is being serious about all of this.

The only question for OP is what are your monthly expenses (rent, good, gas, utilities, entertainment, savings, etc) and have you factored all of that into how much you'll need to make a month? Will you be dipping into your poker BR to pay for all of your expenses?
 
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I agree.

I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt and say he is being serious about all of this.

The only question for OP is what are your monthly expenses (rent, good, gas, utilities, entertainment, savings, etc) and have you factored all of that into how much you'll need to make a month? Will you be dipping into your poker BR to pay for all of your expenses?

The fact if he did or didn't make 4k in that time isn't why this is funny. I completely believe he's won that much at live 1/3.
 
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The fact if he did or didn't make 4k in that time isn't why this is funny. I completely believe he's won that much at live 1/3.
I understand why some might find it funny. I'm just trying to see if OP put as much thought into this as he thinks he did.

I mean quitting his job to play 1/3 for a living with no BR (and possibly no backup plan) is very silly, but OP might make it. Or maybe it all goes downhill and it's a life lesson for OP.
 
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The fact if he did or didn't make 4k in that time isn't why this is funny. I completely believe he's won that much at live 1/3.

Don't be hating now.
 
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You have a 10BI Bankroll, for live bankroll you need around 30BI, so 9k for 1-3.

Not to mention your bankroll is purely your winnings? Can you tell me how you play for a "living" but your bankroll is your winnings? Do you just eat a carrot a day and live in a box? Because as far as I'd see it, the average person would need around $1500 in a very cheap area per month to pay for rent or bills food tranport etc, so that kinda reduces your Bankroll to 5 BI..

+1 this whole thing reeks of cherry picking
 
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I believe that he has potential to make a living at it, I'm uncertain of how serious and dedicated he is to it. It will be one hell of a grind, but in all fairness, he is in the perfect location for poker. Southern California has tons of cardrooms. Also, I want to see how he manages a serious downswing. This will be a huge factor on whether or not he can go anywhere with poker.

Are you only playing cash? or are you going to play tourneys too?
 
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I probably have 10 BI. I do not look at it that way that is such a terrible way to look at Poker "I have 10 Buy-Ins that I can lose and feel comfortable lol" Wow No thanks. I go the casino with the mindset of playing the best poker I can play.

Example of my mindset:

How much will i make today?
How many hours will i play?
I will leave once I have cleared my quota of 300.00$
I will follow my guide and template of what cards to play, and from what positions.
I will make sure that if and when I put all my chips in the middle that I have a clear and confident decision in the hand that I am the favorite.
I will do my best to play a smart game.
Take a break every 2-3 hours. Recoup as to how the table is playing and what adjustments I can make.

So yes, this is my mindset. Going to do everything to avoid Variance. People look at variance as if it's just something like all your money disappears in the course of one night. Variance to me more so is having my Aces beat by Kings. Or getting straight over higher straight by the river. Or a King high flush well your opponent has Ace high flush. In those situations there really is nothing you can do. Set over set for that matter falls into that category too.

I flop a set of Jacks well my opponent flops a set of Queens. It happens and I stacked off. That is just bad luck.

If you study hard and keep training you will stay ahead of the game. Is what I think.

You should look up proper bankroll management. It's not about "I have x buy-ins to lose." It's to reduce the risk of ruin due to variance. You also do not seem to understand what variance is. Variance is not AA vs KK, set over set, etc. You cannot avoid variance. No poker player can. Even the best players in the world who are consistent winners can have 10-20BI downswings (this is due to variance), and your bankroll needs to be able to withstand that.

And you should not be thinking how much you are going to make in a day for poker. It's about playing your A-game and making the right decisions. Even when you do, you can be breakeven or even be on a downswing. Let's say you had 4 big hands in one night in which you were all-in, and you made good decisions in the small to medium sized pots. You were ahead each time in the all-ins, yet you lose 3 or all of them (trust me, this is not uncommon). There goes 30-40% of your bankroll.

You seem to be passionate about poker, and you're making a huge change in your life by just jumping to professional poker. You might feel like you're unstoppable right now, but when variance hits you, more than just your poker life/bankroll is going to be affected.
 
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You should look up proper bankroll management. It's not about "I have x buy-ins to lose." It's to reduce the risk of ruin due to variance. You also do not seem to understand what variance is. Variance is not AA vs KK, set over set, etc. You cannot avoid variance. No poker player can. Even the best players in the world who are consistent winners can have 10-20BI downswings (this is due to variance), and your bankroll needs to be able to withstand that.

And you should not be thinking how much you are going to make in a day for poker. It's about playing your A-game and making the right decisions. Even when you do, you can be breakeven or even be on a downswing. Let's say you had 4 big hands in one night in which you were all-in, and you made good decisions in the small to medium sized pots. You were ahead each time in the all-ins, yet you lose 3 or all of them (trust me, this is not uncommon). There goes 30-40% of your bankroll.

You seem to be passionate about poker, and you're making a huge change in your life by just jumping to professional poker. You might feel like you're unstoppable right now, but when variance hits you, more than just your poker life/bankroll is going to be affected.
I agree with this.
 
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