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Ten years ago I started lurking in PITR, watching JCarver videos. For 7-8 years I was a poker pro until last January when I decided to move onto other things. It's been a long, strange journey..
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Imaduck posted:I think this could come back if online poker becomes easier to use and more popular again. Basically, this means more states are going to have to legalize online poker, and the player pools will need to be merged. From what I understand - while it's not as good as the pre-Black Friday ages - there are still plenty of bad players to be found on Pokerstars international. The brief explosion of daily fantasy sports in the states tells me that there are still plenty of Americans that'd be willing to gamble online if they were given the opportunity. Right now, people have to jump through way too many hoops to play in the US, so only somewhat dedicated players are going to end up on the sites. PITR got me started. Reading posts from JCarver, EC10, Adar..then transitioned to Cardrunners and HUSNG.com with CTS, Lotto Lenya, Croixdawg, etc. Not sure what you would define as "big". I made six figures plus most years playing $60-300 six max and then later on heads up SNGs, making videos for Cardrunners and PokerStrategy, coaching, running a stable, etc. What made me quit? I've been doing real estate for about five years because I knew poker wasn't going to last with the government crackdowns...buying rentals, doing flips, etc. Last year I decided it was time to push off and pivot hard into something permament. Games were really bad, I would be waiting for two hours for a $100 game, on a good day maybe play 20 games..it just got old real quick. Super glad I did it though. It gave me the freedom to do what I wanted when I wanted for a long time. Never working more than 30 hours a week, traveling to Iceland, waking up and deciding I am going to go golf instead of work, buying investment properties, etc. It treated me very well. One story sticks out. I was never a MTT player but one year I decided to do the whole WSOP thing. I thought I would play a light schedule, maybe 15 tournaments. The first day there I get to the Rio and valet my truck and I am walking in and realize I left fifty grand in cash on the passenger seat (I was so green back then I didn't realize you could wire money to the cage there). I go into a dead sprint to catch the guy valeting my car and grab it. Phew, that could of been a bad start. The first event I play was the $2,500 mixed limit / no limit. In the first ten minutes I get it in with AA against AK and AK. I am thinking "this is how my legend begins, tripling up and final tabling my first ever WSOP tournament" then it four flushed and I lost. Oh well, I have a good bad beat WSOP story I thought. Then the next day I got food poisoning from some bad Thai food. I end up in the hospital near death and miss the entire rest of the series. Maybe it was God's way of telling me to stay away from MTTs.
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Jun 8, 2016 06:17
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Imaduck posted:Thanks faarcyde, that's really interesting! I live in Detroit..from 2012-2015 I rented an apartment in Windsor so I could play on Stars and Full Tilt. I commuted back and forth, it was about a 25 minute drive depending on tunnel traffic. I have geography run good.
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Jun 9, 2016 03:38
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Sheep-Goats posted:I had never before considered this angle for some reason That doesn't work because it can take 2-3 hours to get back into the country form Mexico. Usually only takes 10 minutes in Windsor/Detroit, on a bad day maybe 30.
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Jun 9, 2016 05:33
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Sheep-Goats posted:Oh okay. Is it specifically Windosor/Detroit or is this kind of a US/Canada border thing? It's not a major drug hub so the border is pretty efficient. You can sign up for an express lane that makes it a lot easier where you are pre-screened. There are a lot of people who do it..I know 4-5 acquaintances. 2+2 used to have a Windsor thread although it's been a while since I was involved over there.
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Jun 9, 2016 18:56
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Murgos posted:Like many I dabbled in poker 10-12 years ago. I think it was reading 2+2 that put me off it for good though. Reading accounts of people much better than I was at the time talk about their online BB/hour rates while grinding out 6-8 1/2 or 3/6 tables at Party or Stars made me realize that it was way too much like work to be any fun and that the real expected payout for maybe 90% of them wasn't any better than having a only half decent profession. Lots and lots of people made a lot of money. You could make six figures working 25 hours a week as a slightly above average regular in midstakes games up to about 3-4 years ago.
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Jun 15, 2016 18:34
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Terrorforge posted:Let's try this thing: 1) Your pre-flop bet size was good but you want to bet at least half pot on the flop when you continuation bet. There are spots where betting very small could be awesome but as a standard half pot is good. Half pot gets some value but it also works well as a bluff if you have air. When you bet so small you are giving him a good price to catch up to you for cheap or you are not getting enough value when he has a second best hand. 2) Always be thinking about the texture of the board when you are evaluating a hand. It seems like you are doing that given you provided the suits on the flop. One of my first "a ha" moments as a player was considering the combination of hands someone can have on the flop. If we take your example of T32, the answer is very few. Calling in the big blind, he can have a lot of hands, but it is unlikely that he has any two pair hands (for example he isn't calling with T3o, probably). So it makes the range of hands he can have very slim when he check raises. Really the only hands he can have that beat you are 22, 33, TT (which is prob reraising preflop), T3s, T2s, 32s (the last three a lot less likely). With all that said, he probably has a ton of Tx in his range. AT, KT, QT, JT, T9, T8 and then maybe all the suited Tx. He can also have some draws like 45s, A5, etc. 3) Assuming you have 100 blind or less effective stacks, you have two options (folding is not one of them). We can either call his flop raise and let him hang himself on the turn when he commits himself or just get it in now. Both options have merit because if he does have, let's say QT, he will definitely get it in on the flop but if a card like a king comes on the turn he might get away from it. It is really a question of how often do you think he is bluffing or semi bluffing. Since we are talking about a 1 cent / 2 cent game, I would say the chances are pretty high. I think I would generally call the flop and get it in on the turn or if he checks the turn then ship it myself. 4) Just as an end note, always be thinking in terms of ranges and not individual hands. A common rookie mistake is people say "it feels like he has a set here". While of course that is possible, we need to play against the entirety of his hand distribution and not freak occurrences when he smashes the board. Ranges are everywhere...someone's checking range, their flop betting range, their river raising range, etc. Once you start thinking in those terms, it will open up a lot of possibilities. Back when I was coaching I charged $200 an hour. That took me about 15 minutes so that was $50 of free advice :-p
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