What`s all part of being a pro?

[limon]

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I think it`s not just puting lots of hands in and play good poker.

Do you try to eat and live helthy?
How much time do you take off and go for holiday.
Are you doing sth special before starting a session (meditating, jogging)?
How do you try to keap poker fun for you?

I don`t know if there is any interest in these topic, but perhaps if everyone ives away one of his secrets, we could all get better pros.

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the key to being a long time winning pro is making poker less than 1/5 of your income over a 10 yr. period from the time you start.

[AZK]

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I think it`s not just puting lots of hands in and play good poker.

Do you try to eat and live helthy?
How much time do you take off and go for holiday.
Are you doing sth special before starting a session (meditating, jogging)?
How do you try to keap poker fun for you?

I don`t know if there is any interest in these topic, but perhaps if everyone ives away one of his secrets, we could all get better pros.

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the key to being a long time winning pro is making poker less than 1/5 of your income over a 10 yr. period from the time you start.

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sick.

[mrcoughman]

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I think it`s not just puting lots of hands in and play good poker.

Do you try to eat and live helthy?
How much time do you take off and go for holiday.
Are you doing sth special before starting a session (meditating, jogging)?
How do you try to keap poker fun for you?

I don`t know if there is any interest in these topic, but perhaps if everyone ives away one of his secrets, we could all get better pros.

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the key to being a long time winning pro is making poker less than 1/5 of your income over a 10 yr. period from the time you start.

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sick.

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I'm not sure I see how that is possible unless you dedicate like no time to poker whatsoever. Obviously limon has a lot of experience in the long term in this field. I could see the comment being related to time investment, but to actual financial earnings? If you are not in business or finance or in some other financially lucrative field, I just don't see how the money can be comparable.

[Oki-Oki]

Limon can you please expand on that, Im sure its something not many of us are doing.

[MatthewRyan]

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Limon can you please expand on that, Im sure its something not many of us are doing.

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[PrimogenitoX]

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Limon can you please expand on that, Im sure its something not any of us are doing.

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[Bakes]

i thought he meant, make money with poker but invest it and put it to good use so in 10 years those investments from your savings amount to 4x etc

or wrong?

[limon]

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Limon can you please expand on that, Im sure its something not any of us are doing.

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in my experience most wanna be pros start out thinking their gonna love playing poker forever and so they never prepare for that day when it all comes crashing down. so when they make their first 50k playing 5-10nl or whatever they just move up to the next highest limit that they can barely afford. so even though they are moving up limits their lifestyle isnt changing and they still have all thier eggs in one basket. this is bad for financial and psychological reasons. inevitably they go on a massive losing streak and because they were always playing right on the edge of what they could afford it buries them. now they have to work their way out of this hole and it becomes a horrible grind, many go on life tilt at this point. fully coming to the realization of how many hours theyre gonna have to put in ,they borrow money (from people like me) to make a quick hit and then really get stuck. a smarter plan would be to move up slower and invest on the way so you never have to do any one thing to survive. sooooo, instead of jumping straight from 5-10 to 10-20 buy a little triplex. instead of jumping straight from 10-20 to 25-50 buy a laundromat or a parking lot. instead of buying into 20 events at the wsop parter w/ someone in a business venture that you find interesting. instead of playing 70 hours a week play 40 and get a part time job you really enjoy (i still do golf club repair to this day). keep your ears open at the casino for opportunites, (one of my biggest f-ups was not partnering w/ co owner of an l.a. casino who was starting an offshore sportsbook a decade ago), pretty soon you realize that you never have to play poker again...then your poker game becomes unbeatable and you see the grinders in a totally different way. i guarantee you 10 years from now the "winners" who post on 2+2 will NOT be the guys playing 6 screens 80 hours a week at higher and higher stakes. it will be the guys who are writing books or software or starting "poker schools" and it wont be because they made a fortune doing any of these things it will be because they diversified early and stepped out of the boom/bust cycle.

[lippy]

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I think it`s not just puting lots of hands in and play good poker.

Do you try to eat and live helthy?
How much time do you take off and go for holiday.
Are you doing sth special before starting a session (meditating, jogging)?
How do you try to keap poker fun for you?

I don`t know if there is any interest in these topic, but perhaps if everyone ives away one of his secrets, we could all get better pros.

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the key to being a long time winning pro is making poker less than 1/5 of your income over a 10 yr. period from the time you start.

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