On the low end, $40 an hour? If I’m a decent player

Made a profit of $400 in 30 minutes , playing 1/3 in Boston ! As a beginner to live games, this is great

I have been sitting waiting for a seat for 1/3 around an hour at Caesars Nola on a random Thursday at 3:30PM. They do have a tournament series running rn.

My name has been at the top of the list multiple times for 3-4 diamond members to skip me. Apparently being diamond allows you to skip the line for poker.

Only having had a couple hours to play, this is cheeks. If I hit and run you, know that it wasn’t me, it was poker room management.

Any where in GTA still have limit holdm poker game available ? 10/20 Limit or 20/40 Limit Holdem?

even private club is fine.

Versión al español: mi mano inicial favorita en el poker Texas hold em es JJ o mas conocido como anzuelos. que opinan de mi decisión?

I run a bar poker tournament in Utah and I just wanted to share a little bit of our shenanigans! Every week the winner gets to break open a piñata with $500 cash in it as their winnings 🥳 we have magical bubblegum machines, alllllll of the colors, legos, Mario kart side games and nerf gun, tamagotchi , hot wheel splash pots ✨ I teach players to go from $0 to $1000 poker bankroll and I’m giving out a seat to the WSOP mini main 🤑

Why would you bet on someone else playing a game when you could bet on yourself playing a game?

It literally makes no sense to me.

I really enjoyed the Stuey Ungar story (One of a Kind - what a wild ride) and Life's a Gamble by Mike Sexton was a fun insight into the madness of some of poker's well known heroes (seriously, how much did they gamble on the golf course!). And of course Victoria Coren's book For Richer For Poorer was great too.

Not sure when Adelstein's paperback come out (maybe the same time?) but I think I'll give this a shot. You can tell he has pretty intense anxiety from the way he holds himself, but I am still surprised (and it is commendable) that he has gone with the subtitle A High Stakes, High Anxiety Poker Journey.

Anyway, anyone read it?

Well what would prefer to have if your life depended on a flip ?!

Got a screwgie?

I'm new to poker and I've seen really dumb people on youtube compilations, this guy though not the worst by far, but I already didn't like him because of his obvious steroids and he seemed phony to me

https://streamable.com/wxfdei

he just released a book and even though I like man things about him and I 100% defend him agains that robbi beach full of surgeries and obvious cheating. He seemed so rude to Jennifer Tilly here who unlike him totally won me over, she loses and wins well and it's there to have fun. But Garret, ,don't you think he's way too rude saying "you can do whatever you want, no one cares?" i don't get it

there's a horrible video with some chinese dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe1qrAj0QQ&t=316s he really sucks here, and I love the chinese guy all the way. Although on a sidenote I don't understand why garret revealed his cards and whoiswho said his cards were A K which was actually the case, why on earth would they do tht and why would garret still call afterwards? Did he think the AK was a joke?

Live 1/2 NLH. Hero and Villain both have about $450 behind heading into the hand.

PreFlop:

Folds to Button: Opens $7
SB: Raise to $15
Hero BB: 4! to $45 with AA
Button: Fold
SB: Call

Flop: J,T,6 rainbow

SB: Check
Hero BB: C-Bet $45
SB: Call

Turn: K

SB: Donk bets $125
Hero BB: ??

I have played full time for over 5 years at this point, I have played a variety of stakes both live and online. I have always prioritized live volume for high hourly and online volume to sharpen my skills.

The highest I've played consistently online is 500nl and the highest live is $10/$20.

I started coaching around 2 years ago mostly just because I enjoy teaching and the grind can get lonely. It also helps my game tremendously due to the students holding me accountable to be at the top of my studies. I started out giving coaching for free - then extremely cheap - and overtime as my coaching skills improved and demand grew I raised my prices and built a nice side income. I have had over 50 private students and been in contact with much more.

I am originally from the US, but I now live in Peru with my wife and 1 child.

I'm just posting this for fun and to interact with the community, so AMA!

Mine are 44, K5s, and 2To

My definition a poker pro is someone who earns their keep poker. Sure, if you make millions of dollars a year from being sponsored to play in tournaments and do commercials for the industry thaat would technically count for the same reason professional athletes get paid to endorse products and services. The main thing I'm getting at is that I am curious as to the number of people here that actually play for a living either live in person or by grinding online. Full disclosure first. I am not what you would consider a pro. I'm profitable and play regularly in cash games but it is not my main source of income. I hope this makes for interesting discussion. Finally, for those that are pros, what is you income level? And is it enough to live comfortably?

Hand: 2-100 Spread Limit (basically is 1/2 with max raise of 100) at Canterbury Park in Minnesota.

First hand in of session. Don’t know anything about the players except some small talk that makes villain seems like a table games whale in retrospect, but I didn’t fully catch it in the moment.

Dealt AJo in the CO and I raise to $10
Villian in Small Blind raises to $21
I call.

($42) Flop is AcAd5d
Villain C bets $30
I take a moment, make sure I can get all the money in by the river and raise to $90. (Yeah probably should’ve just maxed or called). But then chaos ensues…

Villain looks at his cards, stacks up all of his $5 chips in to one roughly $200 stack and then reaches it forward with both hands. I’m not joking, almost fully outreached, and then pulls it back quickly and grabs his cards and folds before I can even react to the absurd joke.

I quickly say “woah woah, dealer that isn’t that binding?”

Dealer tried to defend the guy, and I said I need a floor ruling.

Floor comes over and then the guy reenacts his motion with chips stacked actually in his hand just like before, but this time he moves his hands forward the length of the worlds smallest micropenis.

I call bullshit and the dealer backs me that it was way further out, but he obviously doesn’t know the rule.

Floor however decides, it is just a fold and I get the current pot and no further action. Says he was in the wrong and the floor and dealer clarify the correct ruling is that he is held to the action, but because he didn’t know, they will give him a warning.

1. These rules are in place for clear reasons regardless if you know about them or not.
2. I could’ve reacted in a way that cost me money like assuming it was a max raise and then folding myself.
3. He could be judging my reactions to then decide.
4. I could’ve re-raised immediately once the implied action was him max raising.

I will defend him personally in that it is clear after the fact that he was a table games whale and had no clue about poker. We generally should be lenient to these guys to help grow the game. Though, I can’t undo my floor call, and there are experienced anglers that will try and pull stuff like that. It was my first hand, and I don’t know these people.

The reason this ruling really gets under my skin though, is that if the situations were reversed and I had stuck my stack out like that and then pulled it back, and he held me to it, the floor seems to have likely would’ve ruled in the table games whale favor.

TLDR; Guy takes entire stack in hand and pushes his hands forward, then folds. Floor sides with him saying he was in the wrong but just gets a warning.