Left Home, Moved to Vegas! Pman Presents The Ride

yes 10nl is super beatable, great rake, learned that back in 2021, should grind that full time

(sarcasm)

Have you considered quitting poker? Asking for a friend.

I’m doing well, man. Yeah, we’ve chatted a bit over Discord. I think the last time we talked I mentioned I was working with kids with autism. As of 2026, though, I’ll be gambling full time.

I do genuinely think professional gambling is a viable path for you, especially given your current situation—single, minimal external responsibilities, and a clear satisfaction with your current lifestyle. You don’t seem focused on “getting rich” through poker, but rather on sustaining yourself and maintaining autonomy, which matters. The grass is always greener, but in my experience, the issues that prevent someone from succeeding in gambling tend to follow them into more traditional paths anyway.

You’re also in a better position than most because you have access to a strong support system and an unusual amount of high-quality, free advice—advice that most people had to learn excruciatingly the hard way, often paying heavily in time, money, emotional frustration, and opportunity cost. Even when that advice isn’t perfectly intentioned—or is occasionally adversarial—it still accelerates learning and self-awareness. That’s a meaningful edge.

Is this the right path for most people? Probably not. But there’s also a real sunk cost to walking away at this stage, and I think there’s value in committing fully rather than half-measuring it. Vegas, in particular, is a very practical place to do this. With Diamond status (or something comparable), you can keep monthly living costs extremely low—often under $1k—through comps. Most of the month is cheap or free, and on weekends you can supplement with a low-cost room or Airbnb if needed.

From a poker standpoint, Vegas offers excellent game selection. Below 5/10, the exact quality of the game matters far less if you have a real skill edge. Volume, table availability, and consistency matter more—and Vegas excels there.

I don’t know your exact situation with transportation, but not needing a car is also a meaningful advantage. Eliminating car payments, insurance, maintenance, and parking further reduces fixed costs and simplifies day-to-day logistics, which matters more than people realize in a grinding environment.

One important caveat, though: if your long-term goal is to date seriously, marry, or start a family—especially with a high-quality partner, whether that’s a woman or a guy—this path becomes much harder unless you truly crush it. Professional gambling works best when expectations are aligned with lifestyle constraints. It’s sustainable as a minimalist, independent setup; it’s far less forgiving once other people and long-term obligations enter the picture.

Overall, if you’re going to do this, doing it fully and intentionally makes far more sense than keeping one foot out the door.

I'm not trying to be mean or harsh but the reality is if you're a losing live cash player you need coaching, studying and volume. You can't be lazy. When I sit down at LLSNL games I'm a massive favorite to win the session. I've had multiple huge winning streaks and well over what is considered a good "bb/100". You can too, you just need a reality check. That long post you posted is the first time I've seen you admit some of your faults. Honestly, quit wasting time with tournaments. If you have even 5k for poker,

1. Get a live coach - consider Brad Wilson's stuff (just Google him) or Marc Goone. Hell, I'll coach you. I'm in California, PM me.

2. Play cash games. And put in volume.

If you don't have 5k for poker, get a job or save from your current side hustles.

There are a lot of people willing to help you. 30 isn't too old, either.

wow dude. what a beautiful post. i am to tired to properly respond to this; can you hmu on discord and i'll give you a proper reply tomorrow? i'd be comfortable sharing more personally with you either dms on here preferably discord; alot of good stuff in here that i'd like to dive deeper on. maybe even get you on the podcast if i'm lucky? 😀

my discord is pmanprays

I know i'm capable of beeing LLSNLH i just need to tighten up. Yeah, a reality check would be nice. I'll shoot you a DM. And yeah, trying to build the roll.

Thanks man!

Good points mentioned;
-Diamond status and WSOP/Ceasars points free rent
-Vegas game selection is quite good, games are still good and games in California are really good free money

Bad points mentioned;
Pretty much everything else in your post. (i think you are missing a lot of variables in your equation to calculate QOL & Future Streets)

I disagree with the sunk cost fallacy say, EVEN if we assume the person is very talented at poker at this stage in life and is considering not going full speed at it. What does poker look like 5 years down the line? Thats what you need to plan for.

I think its reached its peak in terms of nothing will really change, live will probably get tougher as more people choose to play live over online and thats about it, though pretty bad if you ask me.

Why dont you pick up something more peaceful then poker instead? Buy a dog a dodge cummins and a trailer and start hauling junk. Much more peaceful and rewarding then playing poker. You could also hire some hobos and make cool youtube videos with them; "Hobo helps me haul junk from employer that i made 50 cold calls to today"

This sounds really redneck and sort of sexual but AT LEAST YOU actually wouldn't be doing any meat slinging unlike working in the office with people who want their meat to be slung everyday,

Pman if you read this, DONT GET A LIVE PIMP, unless you can get LLLinusLove or the top high stakes or mid stakes player on pokerstars to coach you, why bend over backwards and take it in the butt?

A lot of people are trying to make money off the tables and take money from this poster who is just no informed.

If you read my pervious posts, i told you that a lot of networking is invovled, and no one is going to give you anything in life for free.

Now im not saying be a 5lut, im saying dig deep and expose these people and grind your pee pee off and then exploit those people who are trying to exploit you. They will never see it coming.

Learn what poker has taught you, exploit everybody and everyone. Nobody is safe in america. Thats the morale of the story.

Lets get this bread and then break bread.

Goodluck!

it's a bug only found in dark mode that the owners have been told about dozens of times and just don't care to fix

goal of playing nl10 is not to make money, it's to get better at poker - if you can break even at nl10 you will crush 1-3 live

U should def go pro dude. U have a lot of potential

Pman, can you just admit you have a gambling addiction, go to a GA meeting to get scared straight, have a light bulb moment, then resolve to play good? It’s not this hard despite all your shortcoming and you know you have a lot of shortcomings. A lot of demons too but a lot of shortcomings.

You’re busted rn and out of action it seems, what do you have to lose? Sadly, the autism isn’t an excuse because if that truly was the case you’d play better from my lifetime sample size grinding poker and slots with autists and occasionally betting their sports plays when they gave them to me.

If you are banned from this thread, then stop posting in this thread OR there will be repercussions (I'm talking temp-bans and if you continue to post in this thread after receiving temp-bans, you will then receive an ultimate permanent ban from TwoPlusTwo Forums).

I'm going to set the tone here as a Moderator:

A Poker Blogs and Goals thread should be a generally Positive Space. If you are going to criticize the OP (of ANY thread) then make it constructive and have your post be good-natured.

I hear you man, i'm not going to be paying for a coach right now, don't worry. Solid advice.

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I dont know how to turn off dark mode, maybe i'll figure it out ,just waking up

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McLovin, thank you for stepping in and setting the tone. I appreciate you very much, you've always been kind to me. I am open to criticism and feedback, but the usual suspects need to say in LVL.

Didnt know if the guy was trolling or not, i did a really stupid prop bet at 10nl years ago lol. I'm winning at 50nl.

Actually it is very beatable. Not sure why you're dismissing this? If anything just to prove yourself as a winning player to all the haters?

I'm not wasting my time playing for pennies and IDGAF what the haters think lol.

I didn’t realize you were a mod in this forum but you have posted enough in this forum to know the rules. Since the start, to have a thread in here you must have goals and then make some sort of progress to those goals, with posts documenting that progress. Making entire posts unrelated to poker and poker goals such as having Tourette’s’, video games, and day to day life were historically not allowed in here and even legends like Mike Wolf/Insanepoker7 were warned and reprimanded to keep posts strictly focused on poker/goals. Pman has also admitted he is busto and is actually further from his goals than when he started, with no signs of making forward progress.

Forum mods in recent years have taken a laid back approach to these rules but now that you are enforcing these rules, this thread should be moved to House of Blogs where it belongs. Ironically, there are actually pro poker players/APs that have threads in House of Blogs and not here. There is also constructive discussions and valuable advantage slot strategy in HOB, which is a rarity nowadays in open forums. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Bro stop posting ur ******ed.

This is a good outlook, as a job is the path forward for you, imo. Once you get some steady employment / income the rest of your life will slowly settle into place. Good luck with this and gogogo!

And this is why poker should not be your path forward (at least as a source of income, let alone the main source). It's pretty much impossible for a capable trying rec to lose at LLSNL as it is so trivial to beat (even if just for irrelevant pennies per hour), and yet somehow you haven't figured out how to do that (as a pro no less). I think it should be pretty clear by now that you don't have the aptitude / discipline / tilt control / etc. that is required to win at this game. And while the poker variant you are interested in isn't quite LLSNL, without the correct aptitude it too will be a losing venture. Which is fine as an affordable recreational activity (like golf, going to the movies, etc.), but not so much as an attempt at primary income.

I mean, I realize I pop in here every couple of years and I'm a broken record on this, but I mean the best and wish you well. You are capable of getting that job and then appropriately fitting poker into your life as the recreational activity it should be.

Ggoodluck!G

i have serious doubts you are winning online if you can't beat a 1-3 game live

I hear you man. And i respect your opinion. I will continue to try to make poker my primary income. I know you wish me the best and i respect you bro. Let's see what happens, 2026 the year of change!

I mean unfortunately most of my live cash game play is on wsop, which doesnt track results, so i can't show you a graph. I'm not beating mid stakes or anything, just 50nl and soft 100nl games.

2nl online is 10x harder to beat than 1-3

you would be the first person in the history of the world to be a winning nl50 or nl100 player that somehow still loses in llsnl