Atararo14
Visionary
Bronze Level
First of all, you have to learn a lot. I talk about technical strategies and decisions to be made.
You also need to have a very solid mind to maintain the rhythm of applying the same strategies and applying the same decisions.
You also need to have a very solid mind to maintain the rhythm of applying the same strategies and applying the same decisions.
Gallarado777
Legend
Loyaler
join a poker school study there to grow by limits and go up to play high limits at a high level of play and show better results learn to promote your name and then you'll become a professional player but you'll need it when you have a lot of money I think no
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77ecos
Visionary
Bronze Level
The ideal is to start playing with a solid base of the game, spend a lot of time studying, playing the game, managing your emotions completely and keeping in mind that it is a game in which doing things well and correctly does not always give you a positive result but if you keep doing things right in the long run you will always have profits
jonaselloco
Legend
Platinum Level
1) Learning
The beginning poker player usually makes a big mistake.
If you have luck in your favor and you win, for example, a freeroll, you think you have God holding hands, and that is the big mistake.
They start playing cash and that's where it all falls apart.
You must constantly learn. Videos, streemers, practice, tutorials, courses, everything works for the game
2) Control of emotions
Another serious mistake that many players have is that they are in a tournament, they have very good cards in their hand, but an opponent goes all-in and they do not take into account that their opponent may have a better hand than them and they discard the tournament and throw him out. blame bad luck.
I give you an easy example. You openraise from UTG with AQs which is a great hand, and you have 2 opponents behind you with bigger stacks than you and they go all-in too. You are comfortably installed in position 40 of an MTT where the bubble pays position 150. Would you also call the allin??? I already tell you no and I fold. But a lot of players I've seen them do it and find themselves with hands like AA QQ KK AKs behind and 10 times at most they can win that hand once.
For this reason it is very important to control emotions.
3) bankroll management
Like if you have a company, you can't get good results if you don't manage the administration of it, in poker it happens the same way.
If you do not have a good bankroll management it is impossible to play calmly and expect good results.
It would be the same as going to the casino one day to see if you can save your company with roulette.
Every dollar you have is a bullet. And you have to have as many bullets as possible to get into the MTTs and get the achievements. There you must be patient, because you will not always achieve the ITM, but there are situations of 3 or 4 MTT that you enter among the 1st 20 positions and the situation varies in your favor. Not to mention if you make final tables in the top 3 places.
4) Patience
Nothing in life is achieved immediately, even less if you seriously dedicate yourself to playing poker.
At least when I started I made the same mistake like everyone else. I considered that playing cash was the immediate way to capitalize.
With the passage of time, and learning from a great friend especially from Cardschat, I began to see that my profitability was related to MTT and SnG to a lesser extent.
I played cash, won and lost and never progressed. When I began to understand that in the MTT or Sng I regularly enter the ITM, I began to realize that the profitability in me was in playing these scenarios. And patience here plays a fundamental factor.
Because really in cash games you can speed up your bankroll, but in MTTs time is of the essence so I try to calmly take the necessary time to play every day.
5) Focus
This is referred to knowing very well what you want to do with poker.
I play for fun???
I play to have some extra income that can improve my life status???
I want to be a semi-professional player and I will take part of my free time to do it???
I want poker to be my profession???
All this when you start playing you must understand it perfectly.
That way it may be that you take it at first as a hobby, like playing any fun game.
But it can happen that with the passage of time, you understand that you have a certain facility to do it, that you learn quickly, and that you begin to be successful.
In other words, from the first question, you go on to the next question, and so on.
6) Do not become a gambler
When I refer to the term gambler, which means player, I mean the bettor who does it solely for the addiction to gambling.
For that, the casino in all its variants is better.
Although there are players, and many, who take poker as a game of chance.
You have many players at cash tables and even at MTT who play poker as if they were playing a slot.
They have 2 cards in their hand and they go all-in. If the card slot showdown shot your sequence, then you're happy.
This type of game, like all games of chance, leads you to ruin in the short or long term.
You can have one, two or more lucky hands. But you can't have 1000 continuous lucky hands.
7) Practice
This is undoubtedly an essential tool. This is where it could be said that MTT could be taken as a sport. Enb definitive is a competition in which you want to win and be the first.
I mean, for example. A swimmer in his pool can achieve all the records that have been and will be, but for this he must go to a competition and prove it to many factors. Another climate, anxiety, nerves, people in the stands, another scenario that is not the tranquility of the pool at your club. And well, in that scenario, he must demonstrate it.
That's why I have a lot of respect for players who have won wsop bracelets or other important MTTs. Because it was certainly not a coincidence. You may not like Phil Hellmuth's ways, but the man commands respect with his 14 bracelet wins, including the World Series.
Practice gives you the power to analyze many situations of your own game and the game of your opponents. See in which situations certain hands are given and be able to take advantage of those references, so that when the same hand occurs to you, you know how to act.
Also analyze the hands especially that you lose. Why did I lose??? I had bad luck??? played wrong??? Should I have played differently? I should have expected to enter prizes??? etc
8) Humility
I remember a long time ago that I saw on TV the tables where pokerstars gave a recreational player the chance to play with a stack against Pro players and if at a certain time of play this player exceeded the initial stack, they gave him the difference in cash.
I also remember that while the Pros were having fun at the table, the recreational player gave them quite a few beatings and these Pros ended up with a grim face.
There are many videos of this on Youtube.
Always I at least prefer that at a table they do not call me arrogant, but that they respect me for my humility.
That's why I often say that you have to have a certain amount of respect for the players that you see can be passive, because you don't know in what situation they can tip a hand that harms you too much in an MTT, or in cash.
The beginning poker player usually makes a big mistake.
If you have luck in your favor and you win, for example, a freeroll, you think you have God holding hands, and that is the big mistake.
They start playing cash and that's where it all falls apart.
You must constantly learn. Videos, streemers, practice, tutorials, courses, everything works for the game
2) Control of emotions
Another serious mistake that many players have is that they are in a tournament, they have very good cards in their hand, but an opponent goes all-in and they do not take into account that their opponent may have a better hand than them and they discard the tournament and throw him out. blame bad luck.
I give you an easy example. You openraise from UTG with AQs which is a great hand, and you have 2 opponents behind you with bigger stacks than you and they go all-in too. You are comfortably installed in position 40 of an MTT where the bubble pays position 150. Would you also call the allin??? I already tell you no and I fold. But a lot of players I've seen them do it and find themselves with hands like AA QQ KK AKs behind and 10 times at most they can win that hand once.
For this reason it is very important to control emotions.
3) bankroll management
Like if you have a company, you can't get good results if you don't manage the administration of it, in poker it happens the same way.
If you do not have a good bankroll management it is impossible to play calmly and expect good results.
It would be the same as going to the casino one day to see if you can save your company with roulette.
Every dollar you have is a bullet. And you have to have as many bullets as possible to get into the MTTs and get the achievements. There you must be patient, because you will not always achieve the ITM, but there are situations of 3 or 4 MTT that you enter among the 1st 20 positions and the situation varies in your favor. Not to mention if you make final tables in the top 3 places.
4) Patience
Nothing in life is achieved immediately, even less if you seriously dedicate yourself to playing poker.
At least when I started I made the same mistake like everyone else. I considered that playing cash was the immediate way to capitalize.
With the passage of time, and learning from a great friend especially from Cardschat, I began to see that my profitability was related to MTT and SnG to a lesser extent.
I played cash, won and lost and never progressed. When I began to understand that in the MTT or Sng I regularly enter the ITM, I began to realize that the profitability in me was in playing these scenarios. And patience here plays a fundamental factor.
Because really in cash games you can speed up your bankroll, but in MTTs time is of the essence so I try to calmly take the necessary time to play every day.
5) Focus
This is referred to knowing very well what you want to do with poker.
I play for fun???
I play to have some extra income that can improve my life status???
I want to be a semi-professional player and I will take part of my free time to do it???
I want poker to be my profession???
All this when you start playing you must understand it perfectly.
That way it may be that you take it at first as a hobby, like playing any fun game.
But it can happen that with the passage of time, you understand that you have a certain facility to do it, that you learn quickly, and that you begin to be successful.
In other words, from the first question, you go on to the next question, and so on.
6) Do not become a gambler
When I refer to the term gambler, which means player, I mean the bettor who does it solely for the addiction to gambling.
For that, the casino in all its variants is better.
Although there are players, and many, who take poker as a game of chance.
You have many players at cash tables and even at MTT who play poker as if they were playing a slot.
They have 2 cards in their hand and they go all-in. If the card slot showdown shot your sequence, then you're happy.
This type of game, like all games of chance, leads you to ruin in the short or long term.
You can have one, two or more lucky hands. But you can't have 1000 continuous lucky hands.
7) Practice
This is undoubtedly an essential tool. This is where it could be said that MTT could be taken as a sport. Enb definitive is a competition in which you want to win and be the first.
I mean, for example. A swimmer in his pool can achieve all the records that have been and will be, but for this he must go to a competition and prove it to many factors. Another climate, anxiety, nerves, people in the stands, another scenario that is not the tranquility of the pool at your club. And well, in that scenario, he must demonstrate it.
That's why I have a lot of respect for players who have won wsop bracelets or other important MTTs. Because it was certainly not a coincidence. You may not like Phil Hellmuth's ways, but the man commands respect with his 14 bracelet wins, including the World Series.
Practice gives you the power to analyze many situations of your own game and the game of your opponents. See in which situations certain hands are given and be able to take advantage of those references, so that when the same hand occurs to you, you know how to act.
Also analyze the hands especially that you lose. Why did I lose??? I had bad luck??? played wrong??? Should I have played differently? I should have expected to enter prizes??? etc
8) Humility
I remember a long time ago that I saw on TV the tables where pokerstars gave a recreational player the chance to play with a stack against Pro players and if at a certain time of play this player exceeded the initial stack, they gave him the difference in cash.
I also remember that while the Pros were having fun at the table, the recreational player gave them quite a few beatings and these Pros ended up with a grim face.
There are many videos of this on Youtube.
Always I at least prefer that at a table they do not call me arrogant, but that they respect me for my humility.
That's why I often say that you have to have a certain amount of respect for the players that you see can be passive, because you don't know in what situation they can tip a hand that harms you too much in an MTT, or in cash.
Igor G
Visionary
Platinum Level
This is a goal that unfortunately most of us will not be able to achieve. In order to become a professional player, you must first of all be financially independent. If you have an income that allows you to pay your bills then you can devote your time to gaming and personal development. If you do not have a financial basis, then your chances are minimal.
Poker Orifice
FoolsTilt
Platinum Level
A time machine! Get sent back to 2005 with today's knowledge & experience. Also, be sure to invest a large chunk of your massive profits in Bitcoin during the summer of 2017, sell in Dec.2017, buy again in Jan.2019 selling on April Fool's Day 2021.
Then... move to playing only Live tournaments as of 2018 & never using more than 1/1,000,000th of your bankroll in any one game.
Play online to keep your mind sharp for the live venues... but don't play above an $109's
Then... move to playing only Live tournaments as of 2018 & never using more than 1/1,000,000th of your bankroll in any one game.
Play online to keep your mind sharp for the live venues... but don't play above an $109's
dreamer13
Legend
Platinum Level
You need to become a very, very good player. You must learn to win against all your friends and acquaintances. Only then will you know that you are on the right track. You need to practice and play poker constantly. Once you reach 1500 game hours, you will finally start to get it right and you will begin to understand the essence of the game. Many people make a living playing poker. You must try to win, no matter what it costs you and work for the result.
PokerPlayerAaron1982
Rising Star
Bronze Level
The reality of it is too play for a living or make long term money or rather say enough money at the game the truth is you would have too play some considerably large stakes imo. As long as your a live player. For example even in the 5/5 games where the buy in is 300-1k imo top earners are maybe grinding out 30-35 bucks an hour. And that would be if you are absolutely incredibly good. Making very, very minimal mistakes. Absolute A-game. I think where you can really play for a living is at the 5/10 stakes 1000-3k buy in games. Where i think if you were insanely good you can probably win roughly 50-75 per hour. The variance in poker is definitely the toughest part of the game. Managing it all is important. I make a small income long term playing 5/5 stakes and i consider myself a bit above average too be honest. Making about 10$ an hour. So i would find it hard too believe that there would be players that much better then me at these stakes.