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$1.26 an hour
Actually, EV adjusted HEM2 says it's really $.43 an hour, or in other words, probably below sweatshop wages. Hell prisoners working for practically free in a supermax prison rival my hourly if it's EV adjusted.
I always wanted to be a professional poker player, but I'm not entirely sure I'm cut out for it, at least the way I'm going about the game at this point in life.
Since February 15th I have played 208,906 hands, averaged 2.6bb/100, net won I've won $1,114.08, adjusted for EV I would have made $2153.19, and am averaging $1.26 an hour
RIght now, given how much I'm making, I'll be honest, the game, after 4 years of playing it since April of 2012, when an event in my life happened that severely diminished the economic value of the college degree I had spent the then 9 years prior, earning, my interest in poker is diminishing from what it had been from that day.
I had to find some kind of way to make money, that didn't require a background check into my arrest record, particularly since the degree I had pursued had also required a clean background check as well as the degree itself.
I'm autistic, I've been fired from most every job I've held, given the fact I have an arrest record I wouldn't disagree with someone saying I have a difficult time following rules, including the rules (laws) of society). I have extremely weird sleeping hours, I would say I've easily had a very difficult life, even coming from an upper-middle class family where money wasn't a huge factor. (When I was 5 years old they diagnosed I had a disability and would have to be in a special classroom for kids with disabilities, the ironic thing was, I was the only kid in that class who wasn't impoverished) and basically I would categorize myself as an adult with a disability.
The job I held for 5.5 years, I had my brother as my direct supervisor over me at the job, and when asked what it was like working with me as an employee he told my parents "With James, everyday, is like his first day, on the job".
Anyways, clearly $1.26 an hour, I probably shouldn't even play, now you could argue I'm running so far below EV that my real wage is perhaps over $2.50 an hour, and a lot my losses stem from tilt purely due to running so incredibly bad and then making extremely bad plays later on in the game. Basically for the past 4 months, I've been running bad in poker. Last night I lost 8.5 buy ins.
My W$WSF is 40.6, when someone saw my redline they said "That redline hurts my soul to look at" (I've won roughly $12,000 in showdown winnings and lost roughly $11,000 in hands that didn't go to show down). My EV line is about $1,000 above where my net winnings line is, I mean I do tend to get sucked out on a lot more than I suck out on other people.
VPIP is 23.7, PFR is 17.0, 3bet is 5.41, WTSD% is 24.4, W$SD% is 53.5, Agg is 3.07
Basically I'd say I'm a break even player. If you look at my graph, today, over the past 7 months, you could easily conclude that I'm not "enjoying myself" when I play poker. It's almost like torture now, or a chore, it just enrages me how often they do massive suckouts on me, but the double sided axe of suckouts rarely ever seems to swing my way.
I've tried hard to move up to 50nl, and even took a few shots at 100nl, at $100nl, I lost -$71.56, but generated $76.53 in EV over 1,075 hands. In 50nl I ran horrible as well, I generated $294.20 in EV but in results, I lost -$377.90.
If I feel doomed to win only $1.26 an hour, and be stuck playing 25nl even 6 years from now, I don't know, maybe I'm not cut out for this game as I had long hoped for.
SO whats the solution? I got plenty of tools at my disposal to work on my game, read an hour out of some poker book before each session? Looking for some ideas here, I really want to make it in this game, but it is a very frustrating game when over 208,000 hands, your winnings is roughly less than half of your EV.
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