Poker ramble

solid advice, i think if anything those br reqs might be a bit low for today's games (for most people)

Well, as much as your advice has valid points you relate it incorrectly and being that you are a marginal/barely winning player in poker over what you consider a full 2 years of hard play, sort of skews your advice a lot.

TBH I think you should just detailed exactly everything that you are. Are you decent at math, game theory, were you actually good at SC, Magic, etc.etc.?? , then detail how much actual time you spent breaking down your game after sessions, theory, HEM stats understanding, how to manipulate these stats, how many hours of play you did per week. Then detail the forms of poker you played, stakes, observations of the player fields from your eyes, how successful your notes taking was, etc.etc.

Now that you wrote all that, you can say tell your friend the most honest answer possible, which I believe is what you are trying to do? You did all of this trying to grow as a professional and failed at it. You now quit poker full time, playing more on the side.

This should give your friend a very good grasp of what it will take to barely get by as a player. He can then gauge if he thinks he can a) do it better than you b) put in more time/better time than you. If he thinks you are more intuitive, smarter, mentally focused then him, he should just quit now.

There is still a fucking ridiculous amount of money to be made in poker and at all levels/stakes there will always be the select few who will crush. It doesn't matter if they have been doing it for 4 years or just started 6 months ago. Jungleman went from zero to $5million in 1.5 years starting at 50nl after spewing for around 6months-year and there are lots strong players all in the middle doing the same thing. So, yes poker is hard but unbeatable? Should not even think to try to go pro? That is poor advice.

There is not 1 single thing that has a higher ROI per $1 than poker from the micro scale of < $10k Absolutely nothing can match the earning potential of $2k in poker when in the hands of a player that knows what he is doing. Tons of people have access to $1k-$10k but it is extremely difficult to turn that small money into anything useful unless you gamble on a startup. Yet in poker if you gave me $2K I can turn that into 5 digits ez by the end of the month. So, I believe poker is extremely valuable as long as you work hard in the right areas and strive for for perfection. It is one of the greatest ways to build liquidity and is universal.

Umm, I will give you an analogy to your ending comment, I guess that is the only reason why I bothered to comment.

Having been a pro for more than 2 years, the best advice I can give you is don't ever become one. Just use it as supplemental income

You friend is asking if you think he can drink alcohol any day of the month and be fine. You tell him you tried for 2 years to drink alcohol any day/time of the month but you turned into a mild alcoholic. Drinking on any day/time did not go well for you, so now you cut back to Weekend evenings because you can handle it better. With your experience, you tell your friend he shouldn't drink during the week and only drink on the weekend evenings.

As you can see, this advice is absurd.

I like your advice thanks

Let me just say one thing: People overestimate the impacts of quitting a job. These days everyone is switching between companies and departments and I actually saw people boasting about having 20 different positions on their CV, their trips to India and years of travelling. This is not Japan dude, and I can't see how taking a break in a career doing what they love that gives them flexibility in their life can be ever a bad thing. Life isn't as short as you think, if you think being an office drone for 40 years is not enough than fair enough.

If it doesn't work out, so what? He had a blast doing what he loves whenever he wants for a year, and he can get back to his career, refreshed. (I assume he loves playing poker and isn't just a bum trying to autopilot easy living right?)
If it does work out, well, sick life

If you scream CV GAP! Well...if you care so much about that make sure you either travel or e.g. take up volunteering for a few hours per week, so that you both get some extra experiences and show employers that you are either adventurous 'go places do stuff' person, or that you care about your community and are compassionate...and that you, well 'do stuff'.

Quit your job, fuck it. You must have nothing but poker so that you may really strive to achieve the best. ALL OR NOTHING BABY FUCK THE LIFE BANKROLL MANAGEMENT, THIS IS IT; POKER, I'M ALL IN.

you have to love poker to keep doing it, otherwise this game is torture. i agree with it being the best instrument for ROI tho

"Yet in poker if you gave me $2K I can turn that into 5 digits ez by the end of the month"

easy huh? after i read that i pretty much disregarded everything else. i tend to shut off when i hear something stupid

This was addressed to a specific person who wanted to quit his dad's restaurant business to play 50nl not to the world - i just put it here because it had some general practical advice for everyone. take what you want
if youre a good poker player then by all means become a pro but a struggling 50nl player looking for a coach shouldn't quit his job

His dad's business?

This is like ROFL, he has 100% re-employability. Even if he plays NL2 and loses there why wouldn't he do what he likes for a couple months Sniderstyle as long as he saved up some dough for living expenses?

The 'Rest Of the world' will not have such easy coming back to work, and the mentioned gaps in CV can hurt your career prospects, and there can be a time gap between running out of money/finding out that poker is not for you and getting a new job as you will always have unsuccessful application and recruitment process takes time. If that happens there is a threat of running into cash flow troubles for a few months and you can fuck up your credit rating.

In catering and especially when your family owns a business, its super easy and fast to get a job again and you literally lose nothing by trying and you can only gain...

On March 11 2011 14:54 sniderstyle wrote: "Yet in poker if you gave me $2K I can turn that into 5 digits ez by the end of the month" easy huh? after i read that i pretty much disregarded everything else. i tend to shut off when i hear something stupid This was addressed to a specific person who wanted to quit his dad's restaurant business to play 50nl not to the world - i just put it here because it had some general practical advice for everyone. take what you want if youre a good poker player then by all means become a pro but a struggling 50nl player looking for a coach shouldn't quit his job

But it is easy once you have put in the time/knowledge. Shutting off is ignorance since everything I said was much more practical than you.

Now that you divulged more information, based on it being his Dad's business (which means he can Always go back to that job) and he is young, there is not 1 single better time for him to apply himself and take risk.

You have leaks in your game, logic and outlook. You did post some practical advice for random people but it is littered with bias

its funny how your'er attacking my game when i dont even play anymore

my logic and outlook are from my own experiences and wrong or right, i don't care. guy asked for my advice and that was it