Road to $1M
Hey guys I'm back, this is my old blog https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/p...
I play a Korean ante game at 100NL and 200NL with a SB ante right now. I'm close to hitting that 1M thx to compounding investments and poker, so lets get it!
random blog rant: over my professional poker career spanning 8 years now of which probably 2-3 have been slacking years, I've noticed a common pattern with myself and how I approach the game professionally. I've met lots of poker players IRL who play higher than me ( mid stakes ) despite having less than 20% of my net worth. I learned a lot about myself now that I'm in the early 30s and also about the main reasons why I am way better off financially than most poker players I come across IRL and online, maybe it helps people here take another point of view on things:
I live frugally, insanely frugal. I don't spend any money on entertainment, yet I am content with what I do, the gym membership costs me 10 USD a month, the ride to the beach is free.
I invest aggressively, any spare change above emergency funds I have, and I am now in a position to buy my 2nd property outright. Before that I was aggressively investing in stocks and the holding throughout the years has paid off immensely.
My hourly in poker is solid and involves 0 variance. I grind low stakes right now ( 100-200NL) and despite me playing low stakes I sustain a no variance 50-70 USD hourly which adds up and compounds in my aggressive investments really fast. I also mass table more than any other reg and play much longer hours ( 10h per day ) and still maintain a balanced life where I meet friends, play pickleball, go to the gym and beach daily. What I learned about myself is that I can estimate win rates and hourly rates much better than most professionals. I've come across so many mid stakes grinders who claim to " run bad " and estimate their hourlies to be in the big 100s and 200s so they just end up spending like ballers IRL just to run into long BE or downward stretches because they think they " run bad ". My message to all of those regs out there is to reconsider their estimation of their hourly grind, because some of you might be not running bad, also reg battling reduces your hourly rate by a significant portion.
