How to Become a Professional Poker Player
Friday nights have become a tradition for your group gatherings: You and your friends play poker for fun and you always win. The work on the table that you have doesn’t look charming anymore, especially since you can earn quite a lot of money by playing something you love. If you feel good enough to become a professional poker player, now is the best time to start.
1. Develop Yourself from the Beginning to become a Professional Poker Player
Start young. 4 out of 5 World Series poker champions aged 25 years and under. It seems that the younger you start, the greater your chance of reaching the peak of glory. This tends to be caused by age, because the younger you are, the less afraid and aggressive you are.
Knowing how to play poker is not enough. You must learn the overall strategy, how to bluff, and how to detect opponents who are bluffing.
2. Be a really reliable person in poker.
The thing discussed here is really reliable. Reliable here means you win more often than you lose, and go home with some money. It doesn’t matter if you play in the same small casino every day, you have to be a regular winner in the game.
Try to play with all types of people. People you can read, who you can’t read, who continue to use the same strategy, who have no strategy at all – let your opponents describe all the personalities that exist. When you find an opponent who is your weakness, target him and keep playing with him until your weaknesses disappear.
Don’t just play poker hold’em. Learn how to play Omaha, 5-card draw, and 7-card stud too. The more variations of poker you know, the more expert you are. Also, you might meet a tournament with these poker variations one day too.
3. Monitor playing hours until at least 1,500 hours.
When you hear this, you will say “Ohh man, that sounds difficult.” And indeed it’s difficult – to make poker a major source of income, you have to really try hard. This means you have to monitor every game and the final results achieved. Here are three reasons:
By doing so, you are forced to see how much money you have spent when you lose. So don’t lie to yourself. If you are losing, you must know it, so you can stop playing and look for other things that can be won.
By doing this, you can also see how much money you are actually making. You have to know to determine the amount of money you can bet and how much you have to play to adjust it to your lifestyle.
By doing this, you can also see your weaknesses. If you write down enough details, you will see a pattern of mistakes that have been made.
4. Determine The Budget.
Because you already have a watchlist, this part is easy to do. How much money do you have to get in one month to be financially secure? For some people, they need around 70 million rupiah, while for some people, the money they have to get can be almost 350 million rupiah. Do you make money on target when playing full time? How much money do you make on average every hour?
If you believe that you have to bet more to make more money in a shorter period of time, then your competitive power has increased. You can play in tournaments with other reliable players, or you can also play in the local area and develop slowly with a stable tempo. How far away are you?
5. Play under intense pressure.
Playing Jimbo and Bubba from the streets and continuing to beat them is not the same thing as beating players in the VIP room on the red carpet constantly. To ensure that you are a quality player, play in intense situations. Can you stay calm in game situations like that?
Staying calm and thinking logically is a big part of poker. Sometimes even good players get nervous and end up doing something to regret. When you are used to intense competition, you will get used to anxiety and anxiety itself (at least in part) will disappear.
6. Know your bankroll.
Bankroll is a term of how much money you must have in the bag to play. There are two types of bankroll:
Bankroll Poker Limit. The most common number used as a poker limit is a large bet of 300. Determine how much money you have to bet to make the amount of money that is your target. After completion, estimate the income level of one big bet in one hour. After that, multiply the big bet number by 300. If you play with a bet of Rp.130,000 to Rp.260,000, with a big bet of Rp.520,000, you will have an income level (by playing 40 hours in one week) of Rp.20,800. 000, and you need a bankroll of Rp.156,000,000.
No-limit Poker bankroll. This bankroll regulation does not have a predetermined standard. Start with the general rule, which is about 20 to 25 downpayments (buy-in). If you have decided to play with a maximum bet of Rp.6,500,000, then you must have a bankroll of Rp.162,500,000.
