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Thinking like a pro - My journey into becoming a professional poker player

 
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wkretchi
wkretchi
Joined: 26.01.2017
Posts: 22
24.04.2025, 17:40

Hi guys, I'm a poker player from latin america who are trying to make poker my full time job. I'm currently part of a CFP/Staking group where they provide me bankroll, coaching and a MDA strat that they developed.

In the previous months I was not dedicating myself to poker a lot since I had a job that took all my free time, but now I'm not at this job anymore, and I have a lot of free time to dedicate to becoming a professional poker player.

The owner of the cfp/staking group is helping me a lot, he is doing a database review weekly with me and is pointing out the main leaks in my game. He is a high-stakes reg and I can see that he is putting lot of effort into helping me become a pro, so I'm trying to dedicate as much time as possible everyday to play or study poker, since I really want to make poker my full time job and want to avoid 9-to-5 jobs as much as possible.

When I was talking with DC (let's call the team owner that way) he told me that I need to think like a pro if I want to make it, not just click the same buttons and use the same sizes, that's why I chose this title for my thread, to remeber me that the point is to think like a pro, not just act similarly.

Anyway, wish me luck guys :f_drink:


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Stackoffski
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Joined: 08.09.2021
Posts: 1,077
24.04.2025, 18:07

Good luck! What are you playing? :f_thumbsup:
And what is MDA?


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AgapieGheorghe
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Joined: 10.07.2011
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24.04.2025, 18:13

Good luck ! Waiting for your post about your journey :f_drink:


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wkretchi
wkretchi
Joined: 26.01.2017
Posts: 22
25.04.2025, 00:15

Originally posted by Stackoffski
Good luck! What are you playing? :f_thumbsup:
And what is MDA?

Thanks dude, I'm playing NL5 6max cash game btw.

MDA is massive database analysis, it's a kind of poker strat that is built taking into consideration the player pool tendencies, what board textures and sizes they overfold or overcall, underaise or overaise, etc.

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
Good luck ! Waiting for your post about your journey :f_drink:

Thanks man, I'm planning to post here regularly :f_thumbsup:

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24/04

Today I started playing for 3 hours in the morning, I usually prefer to dedicate the mornings to study hands or doing drills but since I'm playing on bodog now and you can only play 4 tables there so it's hard to put a decent volume without playing for many hours everyday.

at afternoon I grinded for more 2 hours and at night I had a coaching session that also took two hours.
so today I dedicated 2 hours to study and 5 hours to grind, a total of 7 hours of work, not that bad I think.

My results on bodog this month are being great so far, I'm $86 up, even though I only played less than 15k hands. The player pool is full of fishes, it's actually really hard to find a reg playing there tbh.

I know that a big part of my winnings might be due to positive variance, so I will dedicate myself to put 30k hands as soon as possible so I can prove to the coaches that I'm beating this stake and ask to take a shot at NL10, which I also believe I can beat at bodog.


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VisionBoard
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Joined: 24.05.2024
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26.04.2025, 05:05

Hi wkretchi :f_thumbsup:
Good luck!


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