I hate people who say : oh if u make 100k why u do this TH-cam channel. Be thankful for the free content . Thank u Jonathan for all your info and advice. Very smart educated person i admire u a lot
I mean they have got a point though. Just because somebody has a different opinion doesn’t mean they are hating, stop being sensitive. If he could make that kind of money, he wouldn’t have made these videos. It is like selling shovels to the goldmines. Maybe he figured he could make way more money and stable at that by making videos and courses. As an example, my brother risked it all to make a video game, but figured that making courses about game development made him far more money with literally no risk and huge returns. Having said that, Jonathan is a beast at teaching and is one of the best in this niche, if not the best.
@@mikeemanuelson8996he also has a very clear love of the game, that’s what makes him such a great teacher, he learned and teaches from a place of passion, he has just lost some the passion for playing and this obv much more consistent tho obv not risk free
These free TH-cam lectures are a gold mine. Thank you so much for posting all of this knowledge knowing full well that’s it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Every video I watch I realize how little I know about Texas Hold em meta. I currently play tournaments (15k 500+ players fake money pokerstars) fairly well and get into the money rounds quite often. I think I’m competent enough playing as a TAG in the early and middle rounds while making most of my money playing exploitatively. I try and play in position as much as possible and 3 bet a wider range to punish limpers and nits. The goal is to induce folds and isolate players pre flop. If it works I C bet on the flop and donk River (usually) If the pot goes multi way with many callers of the 3 bet I float unless I hit. Usually avoiding flop C bets, calling C bets and reevaluating on turn. My fave exploitative play is folds to me on the button or SB and I just 4 bet to steal blinds away from SB and BB. That fold rate is insane! Got called once and I simply folded as the hand was a bluff. Now I’m really appreciating the value of GTO as I get stuck in some positions where there isn’t a clear exploitative play/ hand to move with and the callers get sticky and aggressive. I find also that eventually some players catch on to me as I’m a 3 trick pony so I revert to just playing tighter and in position. This strategy works for tournaments as everyone is shallow stacked, plays either too wide or too tight. But I struggle playing deep stacked and learned from you that the play is completely different. Playing too wide with 3 bets preflop and too much wide C betting results in me printing money for the villains. All in all thank you!
"and you're actually better than your opponents" ... that was priceless Mr. Little ... I'm a big fan of your website...my NLH game is much better because of you ...thks.
Being ready for variance and managing your roll properly is essential. I’m beating my stake at about 10-11BB/100 but don’t buy in bigger than 1/100th of my roll. These big tournaments can end so fast when the lunatics decide to jam their trash and you get 10-20%’d for your stack holding AA. Typically you double, but you’ve gotta be buying in properly to account for when you don’t.
Thanks for the content. Winning 1 % of your bankroll is quite a challenge while keeping a propper bankroll. For example. With a br of 1000 you can maybe play 25nl (is already over the border in my opinion). You have to win 40 bb per hour. Playing 400 hands per hour (which are 5 tables) you need a winrate above 10BB/100 hands inclusive rake removal. Although I studied quite a lot and hardcore table select I am only making 2 BB/100 on 25nl. But maybe better players can do it. Started 3 years ago with 50 dollars and currently at 3700 (slowly grinding it up). Playing 1000 hands per day (2 hours 6 tabling) and studying also 1-2 hours a day. Have a 36 hour job and two kids, so this is approaching the max to keep a balanced live (also exercise and meditate on daily basis.
Gotta love when the chat makes you tilt! XD Nobody listens anymore, it's driving me crazy in life lately. Update: been grinding the micros, found really good courses, turned $500 into $1k, starting to slowly move up and hope to be at the top of the micros or just out of the micros by sometime this year. Started streaming, looking for affiliation deals, applying for all Coaching For Profit programs (no luck yet and still cannot afford coaching), and will eventually drop my FT retail nightmare job down to PT or find another job where I can work/grind from home!
I’m sure you know that your best students respond well to the “most people are lazy and don’t want to just put in the volume” I’ve found a game and I think quitting my job and putting in the volume makes a lot of sense. Been thinking about getting a poker coaching membership for a while it’s time to commit.
I appreciate this video. I started with $100 and I have to tell myself $1 an hour is good. Anything more, is great. I keep fighting with my mind and have to put myself in check, that it's a marathon and not a sprint. Once I find myself getting tired or frustrated, I just get offline, and start the next day. I plan to get that 100k this year. Thanks for the free content Jonathan!
@@user-eo9bq7pk3p You just keep buying into more expensive games as your bankroll and skill level increases. It's a lot harder than it sounds I think, though.
I just want to brag on myself real quick. Im mainly a tourney player, but i have been venturing off to the cash games more often. Anyway, last week i played in 4 live tourneys. Tuesday $50 buy in home game, we chopped 4 ways, 400 bucks each. Wednesday i played a $100 buy in ($25) bounty tourney. We chopped it 3 ways $900 each, plus i had 5 bounties. Friday played $115 buy in home game, chopped 4 ways 723 bucks each, then sunday placed 5th in $105 tournay at casino, cashed for 517.
I saved 600 and went to play 1/2 cash games last year. Well in that time I made almost 10,000 in a couple months. BUT i was so proud of myself and felt like I deserved to treat myself and NOW I have nothing to show for it but a new tv and Xbox. I always regret doing that. Now I’m saving up a bigger bank roll and going to try again soon
Dude sell your Xbox. I was the #2 player in the world on a certain game and I realized that it was for nothing. Spend that time learning something that enriches your life. That Xbox adds no value to your life.
I often over looked your videos.. Now you have caught and kept my attention because this is probably the greatest wisdom and strategy to get there. I have struggled with variance over the last 2 years. Always winning preflop and getting sucked out more than 70 percent..for example going all in with 6d 6h vs AQ suited. Or I have AA all in vs 55. Orunable to extract max value from flopped flushes or turned boats.. This video makes me want to do exactly your 100k bankroll challenge
Going all-in preflop too much maybe? 66 vs AQ is basically 50/50 for example. Harder to get away from AA than AQ, you may just lose the AA one, but should be able to get away from the AQ
@@knpstrr theres no such a thing as "basically" when it comes to statistics in poker. 66 will win more in the long run, and if you dont consider this, you will 100% lose in the long run.
@@fernandostudebaker5861 Yes, but by basically I meant about 50/50. Also pot size comes into play. If you have a 66% chance to win, but by chance, the times you win the pots are smaller than the times you lose, your overall $ won may still be negative, even though you actually won 66% of the time.
Hi from 🏴Bonnie Scotland 🏴Jonathan, love the videos and information you provide and kudos to you for doing this and for your perseverance!!! Good effort. I’m just starting on my poker journey and find your tutorials priceless and has certainly armed me with enough information to then give me the confidence to dip my toes in the poker world. Cheers Steve
I got a good game it looks like 2 hours drive from me , good hotel rate and a weekly free roll tournament. Obviously gonna play consistent cash games but is the free roll tournament a decent way to add to my bank roll should I win but also get experience as a rookie?
I agree. I’m running about 19% ROI over 300 games. Slowly grinding my it up. But I will transition out of them if I can’t beat the medium stakes for good money. I made the error of cashing out like JL said not to, and now I’ve moved down a stake. This time I’m gonna keep grinding it up and not cash out. Good luck at the tables in your sng. P.S: what site do you play? I play global.
Can we ask questions. Something that my “poker plan” has lacked is a plan to move up. Because I live in Illinois my online options are unregulated sites. From listening to other things you have said is not to keep much money on unregulated sites. How do you balance moving up in stakes vs not keeping alot of $ on a unregulated site?
Stay away from ignition poker. That site is a scam. Sure you may drag a few pots and build up a little money, but as soon ad you start inquiring about getting a withdrawal, you will get coolered over and over
@@jdnation9326same with bovada. I live in Pennsylvania so luckily I can play at WSOP or PokerStars which is a far better experience. I have lost thousands overseas with those shady websites.
Hi Jonathan,can you tell me what kind of br i need to play $20 spin and golds and built a br quick? I've been consintently playing those for 6months for 1/2 hours/day after working a fulltime job. As far as my rating goes it says i win 38% of the time,how good is this and do i need to get better for these stakes or go up in stakes?
This is all great information but how often are people "Moving up" stakes to get to double their hourly every time? The math all maths correctly but I feel the timeline is longer than just half a year. Theres not enough sample size to study and move up stakes in just 80 hours over two weeks, 8 times in a row, is there?
Thanks Jonathan. I bought the "Mastering low stakes Cash games" and started reading it. I think the bankroll part is what has been stressing me (I'm a part time/rec player online mostly with sessions live for $1/$2 at my local casino as time permits), but I haven't looked at it as a bankroll and long-term variance. Thanks!
Easiest thing to do is quit when you're ahead which is hard to do because of greed. Let's say you prepare to play 6 hours but as soon as you go to the poker room you double your money can you quit or should you? Would you? Same question if you lose soon as you get there.
You shouldn't quit. Assuming you have an edge in your game it means simply more time is more money as simple as that. Of course you might lose again in this season but overall you're winning more if you play longer as a winning player obviously
Late stage tournaments how should I play decent preflop starting hands 10 - 15 bb deep? A lot of times in tournaments I'll have that stack size and pick up hands like AJ, A10, 66 or worse, and seem to always run into overpairs or better aces. Is there any way this can be avoided or just variance? I don't see how I can fold AJ when I'm first in, in those situations.
Accept that you have little choice in your hole cards, since you have one foot in the grave. Alternatives: don’t play any hands and fold the small blind, to end up in the same place?
At 10-15 BB I recommend following push/fold charts. Sometimes you will shove and get called by a better hand - that’s poker. As long as you’re following the chart the play will be profitable in the long run.
You say not to spend your bankroll. But do you think it is a reasonable decision to spend your bankroll on poker related expenses? e.g. you grind it up and then buy your pokercoaching membership from your bankroll. or more my case, I don't have great local options and online isn't an option. So, I go to Vegas. My plan is to pay for the trip out of the bankroll (as soon as the gains outstrip the losses) Or perhaps I should play locally, but I should deduct gas. That way I know if my play is actually profitable and not just profitable at the actual table.
I'd buy the membership from your bank account. You probably need it to be able to beat the games even if you once did. If your local games are soft and close by then maybe it's better to use them for building and Vegas for taking shots every so often. If the gas cost equals a Vegas trip though maybe Vegas is better.. Hopefully someone else will advise too.
Dude if you make 1 dollar an hour at micro or small stakes, you will also pay 1 dollar rake an hour, making you breakeven at best, if you don't have rakeback... the variance is never low, even if you are a winning player you can still experience 30-100 buy-in downswing... the only realistic way of making 100k is playing middle stakes, which will require you to have 20k or 40k bankroll... and you need to be very good and running super hot for very long time... so forget about starting with 100 to make 100k, that has 0.1 chance of happening... in the past some people grinded the limits, taking shots and doubling up their bankroll... but those were times there were hundreds of thousands of players online who had no clue about the game... like I knew a guy who lost 50k only playing 10 dollar buy in games in a few years!!! Today you sit at 2 or 5 dollar games and you take 200bbs and people already sit out and leave the table... the game dried up... nobody wants to lose in poker anymore... the gamblers are playing other less stressful games, like slots... cause you just need to click buttons and don't need to think... why would they play poker, if they are only counting on luck? For majority of all players, including the good ones, poker is not worth it anymore...
I guess I’ll let you know in 6-12 months if it’s still doable. I started with 11$ and I have 200$ in online earnings playing micro stakes. Come back to this comment at the start of next year and I’ll update you.
Btw on ACR on day 2s 80-90% of the field makes the money. Which changes some of your equations for me. Still get you thoo. Im almost never a small stack going into day 2s, either. I have a big stack, or im knocked out haha
Spin and go is also great, which no one mentions. I have been making money for months playing 1$ spin and go and just playing one hour a day with the chance to hit up to 10000x.
@@lesliehamilton2020 yes its a waste of money. I tried it so mutch times. Its very rare that you wil hit 5x buy in or more, one time i gott 27 times in a row dubbel buy in!!! Its robbery
@@ewadrerrie4747 you are right. I wish they make sit and go 3 people and give us the choice to play for 2.8$ every 1$ match without all this 10000x bullshit, Would have been a lot better and would have won much more. My problem is i got used so much to 3 players, mastered it, And cant go back to 6 players.
Spin and go is rigged... it won't never ever be 1k... you can play it for 20 hours a day/20 years you won't see it happen ever... just stop lying to yourself!!
Its interesting thinking about super high stakes stream players like nik airball, doug polk, and whatnot. They got there by playing poker but their play is not for profit, its the publicity. right?
I am, I have played around 3000 games in the last 6 months, yes it is great, I started with $10 and now I am on $600, where do you play? I am on party poker?
@@MrCleon22 Cool, that sounds great. I play a lot 5 and 10$ SNGs on Pokerstars. Its not easy but possible to beat those games + a ton of rakeback. Good luck for you mate
@@djevevejejeheh8211 Awesome, I am looking to join some new poker rooms, to increase my volume, So I will look into stars, I wish you the best of luck......... Actually I wish that we both gain so much skill in the game that luck becomes irrelevant! lol
When it says from 100 to 100,000 in half a year thats not realistic. Going X2 your bankroll from 50,000 to 100,000 in the example playing 100 hours would need a winrate of 500 an hour. Where would you find a winrate of 500 an hour? You'd have to play 25/50 and put up like 5-10K at a minimum which is way outside of bankroll management for a 50K bankroll. For say 25K to 50K thats also unrealistic where you going to find games winning 250 an hour where a 25K bankroll is appropriate?
This is absolutely absurd. Hardly anyone that starts with only $100 is going to be able to make $500/hr in the last step 6 months later. They probably won't ever even make $100/hr. What game would you even suggest someone can make $500 in where $50k is good banroll management?
What percentage of your bankroll should you use to take a shot at bigger stakes? For example, I’d need to have $45,000 or more to have a bankroll to play 2/5 Max $1500 buy-in. Should I be taking a shot at 2/5 once I get my bankroll over $15,000?
If you have the skill set, you can play once you have about 11 to 13k. Whatever makes you comfy. When I had 15k, I had a 10k stop loss (about 14 $700 buy ins) and told myself I will go back to 1/3 with the 5k (I have a job). Remember, you can buy in for 500 and still be 100bigs deep. Seriously, if you know how to fold, move up. There are some terrible players POST FLOP at 2/5. Aren't you tired of all the limp, over callers at 1/3 anyways?lol the ones at 2/5 will whale it to you.
2/5 is easier to play than 1/3 if you have poker math knowledge but you also need people reading skills. At 2/5 most people play properly not like 1/3 which is like semi limit games where everyone calls or everyone folds at 2/5 you can control how many people call with the bet sizing. This is where wanna be pros are.
@@jeffreysaldana677 So you're saying that I should play 2/5 with once I get a full bankroll for those stakes for I have no previous experience with even playing in games that big? That seems like a good way to move down in stakes again.
The 10,000 hour mark has been proven to be bullsh. It is about the quality and not the quality. If you focus on the best way to learn, you can do it in far less.
As almost 14 years of experience with online poker and continuously improving, I know that this does not work because the sites are rigged, I've been copying a lot from streamers and it amazes me how much luckier they are than me, and they are certainly no better at the game than me. You mean well with this video and you are completely right provided the game is fair
Find a game you can beat play it a lot and hopefully they don't kick you out for winning too much. After about a year and four months of playing with this group they kicked me out because I win too much. There was 2 of us they kicked out. They said it was like derek juder playing with the girl softball team. They didn't understand why we were playing with them and we should be playing against better competition. They played tournaments and I didn't cash every time but I was catching around 45% of the time and had an ROI over 100%. It was a good ride.
I know this is 6 months later but my bank roll mainly involves hunting those players that are willing to flip anything. you snipe them with an all in when you have top 2 hands and 910 times you walk away doubling your stack.
Yeah went from free role to $60 but then had to buy gas and smokes. Man I f I could just live for free. I already stopped eating food but fuel and nicotine I can not live without.
This math doesn’t make sense to me, you can just double your roll every 2 weeks if you make 10bb/hr in 3/5 live cash and play 120 hours a month that’s only roughly 60k profit
Listen let's say you play 10 sessions 6 hours each session. How many sessions are you supposed to win if you are really good. If you win six sessions that means you lost four sessions since variance is inevitable so you won two sessions and let's say you win and lose same amount of money. Then you calculate hourly rate.
I think it’s the wrong way to look at it. Use whatever modern software is possible like PokerTracker or w/e. Study your graph and figure out where your leaks are. You can go on downswings for no reason other than “shit happens”.
Coach I love your webinars but today I think you went a little bit too much out of the line. I think you are forgetting the fact that we might loose somewhere down the road because we are not that good/ or professional
I have a problem with Cash Games, cause at first I always win but I never know when to leave so at the end I lose all my buy in Money cause of higher pots I played. It‘s always the same, can‘t build up my bankroll like that. In tournaments (sit n gos) this problem doesn‘t exist.
From now on when u play cash..try to walk away when u grind it up. Doesn't have to be a big win..just make a habit of doing that then you'll see your bankroll start growing
@@craigerc713 so you mean like when I bought in with 1$ and have 1,20$ at a certain time I should leave? Cause most of the time I do like 1,80$ and want to get more but lose it all at the end cause of risky plays where I played higher pots.
@@nicshy9074 yes...its habit forming. So when you get better and build your bankroll and move up...your winnings will be higher when you get up and leave instead of staying and get coolered and lose your whole stack.
@@nicshy9074 You need to learn to play with deeper stacks. It's just not the same game when you have 200+ big blinds. With strong preflop hand selection you are much more likely a money favorite in lower stack games than when you still have a lot of chips behind after the flop. The larger the stacks the more complex the game becomes because implied odds are better and there are just more options available. If it's all in there is no counter play. When there are still a lot of chips behind there is room for floating the flop or turn or raising any street as a bluff or value or 3 betting or 4 betting or even 5 betting if the stacks are deep enough. It becomes exponentially more complex the deeper the stacks are.
Most hate stop loss rules but rule 1 find a game you can beat. Rule 2 bring no more then 2-3 buy ins, never bring the full bankroll you'll chase loses. rule 3 when you double up.. leave.. unless the games jucey. Rule 4 stop loss, if you have more then double, and lose 25% leave.
I hate people who say : oh if u make 100k why u do this TH-cam channel. Be thankful for the free content . Thank u Jonathan for all your info and advice. Very smart educated person i admire u a lot
You re a hater sir, but I'm sure Johnny sees your comment and he'll give you 5% off on his $1k course
I mean they have got a point though. Just because somebody has a different opinion doesn’t mean they are hating, stop being sensitive. If he could make that kind of money, he wouldn’t have made these videos. It is like selling shovels to the goldmines. Maybe he figured he could make way more money and stable at that by making videos and courses. As an example, my brother risked it all to make a video game, but figured that making courses about game development made him far more money with literally no risk and huge returns. Having said that, Jonathan is a beast at teaching and is one of the best in this niche, if not the best.
Simple answer. TH-cam. Videos and coaching make money without having to put in the hours!
@@mikeemanuelson8996he also has a very clear love of the game, that’s what makes him such a great teacher, he learned and teaches from a place of passion, he has just lost some the passion for playing and this obv much more consistent tho obv not risk free
“Find a game you can beat”
Brilliant😂
I can beat games below couple of bucks😂
These free TH-cam lectures are a gold mine. Thank you so much for posting all of this knowledge knowing full well that’s it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Every video I watch I realize how little I know about Texas Hold em meta.
I currently play tournaments (15k 500+ players fake money pokerstars) fairly well and get into the money rounds quite often. I think I’m competent enough playing as a TAG in the early and middle rounds while making most of my money playing exploitatively.
I try and play in position as much as possible and 3 bet a wider range to punish limpers and nits. The goal is to induce folds and isolate players pre flop. If it works I C bet on the flop and donk River (usually)
If the pot goes multi way with many callers of the 3 bet I float unless I hit. Usually avoiding flop C bets, calling C bets and reevaluating on turn.
My fave exploitative play is folds to me on the button or SB and I just 4 bet to steal blinds away from SB and BB. That fold rate is insane! Got called once and I simply folded as the hand was a bluff.
Now I’m really appreciating the value of GTO as I get stuck in some positions where there isn’t a clear exploitative play/ hand to move with and the callers get sticky and aggressive. I find also that eventually some players catch on to me as I’m a 3 trick pony so I revert to just playing tighter and in position.
This strategy works for tournaments as everyone is shallow stacked, plays either too wide or too tight. But I struggle playing deep stacked and learned from you that the play is completely different. Playing too wide with 3 bets preflop and too much wide C betting results in me printing money for the villains. All in all thank you!
"and you're actually better than your opponents" ... that was priceless Mr. Little ... I'm a big fan of your website...my NLH game is much better because of you ...thks.
Being ready for variance and managing your roll properly is essential. I’m beating my stake at about 10-11BB/100 but don’t buy in bigger than 1/100th of my roll. These big tournaments can end so fast when the lunatics decide to jam their trash and you get 10-20%’d for your stack holding AA. Typically you double, but you’ve gotta be buying in properly to account for when you don’t.
I commend your patience you are a teacher at heart. Thanks john u are my go to fir poker information
Thanks for the content. Winning 1 % of your bankroll is quite a challenge while keeping a propper bankroll. For example. With a br of 1000 you can maybe play 25nl (is already over the border in my opinion). You have to win 40 bb per hour. Playing 400 hands per hour (which are 5 tables) you need a winrate above 10BB/100 hands inclusive rake removal. Although I studied quite a lot and hardcore table select I am only making 2 BB/100 on 25nl. But maybe better players can do it. Started 3 years ago with 50 dollars and currently at 3700 (slowly grinding it up). Playing 1000 hands per day (2 hours 6 tabling) and studying also 1-2 hours a day. Have a 36 hour job and two kids, so this is approaching the max to keep a balanced live (also exercise and meditate on daily basis.
25nl is incredibly difficult. I'm a 20bb winner at 5nl and 10nl and I can't beat 25nl
@@jeffblazeos4083 which site are you playing
@@dennisje2925 gg
@@jeffblazeos4083 me too. Rake is quite high. And rake back for dutch player almost non existence.
Do you play regular tables or rush. Rush are easier when you table select
Gotta love when the chat makes you tilt! XD
Nobody listens anymore, it's driving me crazy in life lately.
Update: been grinding the micros, found really good courses, turned $500 into $1k, starting to slowly move up and hope to be at the top of the micros or just out of the micros by sometime this year. Started streaming, looking for affiliation deals, applying for all Coaching For Profit programs (no luck yet and still cannot afford coaching), and will eventually drop my FT retail nightmare job down to PT or find another job where I can work/grind from home!
I’m sure you know that your best students respond well to the “most people are lazy and don’t want to just put in the volume” I’ve found a game and I think quitting my job and putting in the volume makes a lot of sense. Been thinking about getting a poker coaching membership for a while it’s time to commit.
Hey man. How long have you been playing/taking it seriously?
Keep your day job man lol
I appreciate this video. I started with $100 and I have to tell myself $1 an hour is good. Anything more, is great. I keep fighting with my mind and have to put myself in check, that it's a marathon and not a sprint. Once I find myself getting tired or frustrated, I just get offline, and start the next day. I plan to get that 100k this year. Thanks for the free content Jonathan!
Let us know how it went next year!
I don’t understand how do you going to make 100k with 100 🤷🏻♂️
@@user-eo9bq7pk3p You just keep buying into more expensive games as your bankroll and skill level increases. It's a lot harder than it sounds I think, though.
@@JulioRodriguez-te8kd did you watch the video?
How's it going?
I just want to brag on myself real quick.
Im mainly a tourney player, but i have been venturing off to the cash games more often.
Anyway, last week i played in 4 live tourneys. Tuesday $50 buy in home game, we chopped 4 ways, 400 bucks each. Wednesday i played a $100 buy in ($25) bounty tourney. We chopped it 3 ways $900 each, plus i had 5 bounties. Friday played $115 buy in home game, chopped 4 ways 723 bucks each, then sunday placed 5th in $105 tournay at casino, cashed for 517.
Great tips. Now I just have to find people I can beat consistently.
Haha that indeed is a challenge
I spent my bankroll on debt and bills. Now I have no debt. So I would like to build up my bankroll again to try to eventually make it in poker.
Find freerolls
Never cash out your roll especially if you are building up a roll
@@robbertou Stupid advice. Getting rid of debt first is always the right answer.
I also cashed out to help with bills. It sucks because I grinded so hard for it. But I can always build it back up.
You did the right thing
Is it worth searching for "softer" poker sites or trying to take advantage of deposit bonuses? Or just pick a site and practice, study and improve?
I saved 600 and went to play 1/2 cash games last year. Well in that time I made almost 10,000 in a couple months. BUT i was so proud of myself and felt like I deserved to treat myself and NOW I have nothing to show for it but a new tv and Xbox. I always regret doing that. Now I’m saving up a bigger bank roll and going to try again soon
Dude sell your Xbox. I was the #2 player in the world on a certain game and I realized that it was for nothing. Spend that time learning something that enriches your life. That Xbox adds no value to your life.
@@garnetnard4284 100%
Your TV and Xbox cost $10k?
@@toasternfriends3329
Definitely not the smarts cat in the comments...
Jonathan, thanks a lot, I've had such pleasure to watch this, this can be lifechanging stuff!!! THANKS YOU A LOT!!!
I often over looked your videos.. Now you have caught and kept my attention because this is probably the greatest wisdom and strategy to get there.
I have struggled with variance over the last 2 years. Always winning preflop and getting sucked out more than 70 percent..for example going all in with 6d 6h vs AQ suited. Or I have AA all in vs 55. Orunable to extract max value from flopped flushes or turned boats..
This video makes me want to do exactly your 100k bankroll challenge
Going all-in preflop too much maybe? 66 vs AQ is basically 50/50 for example. Harder to get away from AA than AQ, you may just lose the AA one, but should be able to get away from the AQ
@@knpstrr theres no such a thing as "basically" when it comes to statistics in poker. 66 will win more in the long run, and if you dont consider this, you will 100% lose in the long run.
@@fernandostudebaker5861 Yes, but by basically I meant about 50/50. Also pot size comes into play. If you have a 66% chance to win, but by chance, the times you win the pots are smaller than the times you lose, your overall $ won may still be negative, even though you actually won 66% of the time.
did u pull 70% out of thin air?
@@DJM3KS no, undocumented it. I rounded up a few percentage points. The leak in my game on this issue has been identified.. thanks for comments
Hi from 🏴Bonnie Scotland 🏴Jonathan, love the videos and information you provide and kudos to you for doing this and for your perseverance!!! Good effort. I’m just starting on my poker journey and find your tutorials priceless and has certainly armed me with enough information to then give me the confidence to dip my toes in the poker world. Cheers Steve
I got a good game it looks like 2 hours drive from me , good hotel rate and a weekly free roll tournament. Obviously gonna play consistent cash games but is the free roll tournament a decent way to add to my bank roll should I win but also get experience as a rookie?
What area of Florida would you recommend to move to? I have friends in Pensacola and i like smaller cities but would consider larger meto areas
Tampa, you have access to 10-15 casinos with in an hour or 2 drive
I make more thank a 100k a year response was savage 😂 the goat
Mr Little Thank You Very Much!
I study your teachings videos.
This is The Best Lesson at this stage of my above average poker career.
This was a Good Little Video.
What’s some of the best online poker sites?
Win at cash and play tournaments like Jonathan did that's where big money is.
Sit n gos aren't dead. I've got an roi of 16% over 1000 games. Play roughly 5-10 triple up sng's per day.
I agree. I’m running about 19% ROI over 300 games. Slowly grinding my it up. But I will transition out of them if I can’t beat the medium stakes for good money. I made the error of cashing out like JL said not to, and now I’ve moved down a stake. This time I’m gonna keep grinding it up and not cash out. Good luck at the tables in your sng.
P.S: what site do you play? I play global.
@@McRuffin Ignition. It's the only site I can play here in Australia. I've transitioned to 6 max cash now after studying
What ratio of studying to playing do you recommend?
Can we ask questions. Something that my “poker plan” has lacked is a plan to move up. Because I live in Illinois my online options are unregulated sites. From listening to other things you have said is not to keep much money on unregulated sites. How do you balance moving up in stakes vs not keeping alot of $ on a unregulated site?
he said don't have money on the sight that you can't afford to lose
if you can't afford to lose the money you are probably not properly rolled
Stay away from ignition poker. That site is a scam. Sure you may drag a few pots and build up a little money, but as soon ad you start inquiring about getting a withdrawal, you will get coolered over and over
@@jdnation9326same with bovada. I live in Pennsylvania so luckily I can play at WSOP or PokerStars which is a far better experience. I have lost thousands overseas with those shady websites.
Where in Illinois?
i live in the uk, what poker sites does everyone recommend?
Hi Jonathan,can you tell me what kind of br i need to play $20 spin and golds and built a br quick? I've been consintently playing those for 6months for 1/2 hours/day after working a fulltime job. As far as my rating goes it says i win 38% of the time,how good is this and do i need to get better for these stakes or go up in stakes?
This is all great information but how often are people "Moving up" stakes to get to double their hourly every time? The math all maths correctly but I feel the timeline is longer than just half a year. Theres not enough sample size to study and move up stakes in just 80 hours over two weeks, 8 times in a row, is there?
These repeated questions were driving you mad Jonathan 😂 good content - made a lot of sense 👏🏾
Thanks Jonathan. I bought the "Mastering low stakes Cash games" and started reading it. I think the bankroll part is what has been stressing me (I'm a part time/rec player online mostly with sessions live for $1/$2 at my local casino as time permits), but I haven't looked at it as a bankroll and long-term variance. Thanks!
Easiest thing to do is quit when you're ahead which is hard to do because of greed. Let's say you prepare to play 6 hours but as soon as you go to the poker room you double your money can you quit or should you? Would you? Same question if you lose soon as you get there.
You shouldn't quit. Assuming you have an edge in your game it means simply more time is more money as simple as that. Of course you might lose again in this season but overall you're winning more if you play longer as a winning player obviously
Late stage tournaments how should I play decent preflop starting hands 10 - 15 bb deep? A lot of times in tournaments I'll have that stack size and pick up hands like AJ, A10, 66 or worse, and seem to always run into overpairs or better aces. Is there any way this can be avoided or just variance? I don't see how I can fold AJ when I'm first in, in those situations.
Accept that you have little choice in your hole cards, since you have one foot in the grave. Alternatives: don’t play any hands and fold the small blind, to end up in the same place?
At 10-15 BB I recommend following push/fold charts. Sometimes you will shove and get called by a better hand - that’s poker. As long as you’re following the chart the play will be profitable in the long run.
You say not to spend your bankroll. But do you think it is a reasonable decision to spend your bankroll on poker related expenses?
e.g. you grind it up and then buy your pokercoaching membership from your bankroll.
or more my case, I don't have great local options and online isn't an option. So, I go to Vegas. My plan is to pay for the trip out of the bankroll (as soon as the gains outstrip the losses)
Or perhaps I should play locally, but I should deduct gas. That way I know if my play is actually profitable and not just profitable at the actual table.
I'd buy the membership from your bank account. You probably need it to be able to beat the games even if you once did.
If your local games are soft and close by then maybe it's better to use them for building and Vegas for taking shots every so often. If the gas cost equals a Vegas trip though maybe Vegas is better..
Hopefully someone else will advise too.
31:53 out of context is gold 😂
Johnathan
Is 100 hours a month playing live + 50 hours of study a month? Is this small sample size?
Dude if you make 1 dollar an hour at micro or small stakes, you will also pay 1 dollar rake an hour, making you breakeven at best, if you don't have rakeback... the variance is never low, even if you are a winning player you can still experience 30-100 buy-in downswing... the only realistic way of making 100k is playing middle stakes, which will require you to have 20k or 40k bankroll... and you need to be very good and running super hot for very long time... so forget about starting with 100 to make 100k, that has 0.1 chance of happening... in the past some people grinded the limits, taking shots and doubling up their bankroll... but those were times there were hundreds of thousands of players online who had no clue about the game... like I knew a guy who lost 50k only playing 10 dollar buy in games in a few years!!! Today you sit at 2 or 5 dollar games and you take 200bbs and people already sit out and leave the table... the game dried up... nobody wants to lose in poker anymore... the gamblers are playing other less stressful games, like slots... cause you just need to click buttons and don't need to think... why would they play poker, if they are only counting on luck? For majority of all players, including the good ones, poker is not worth it anymore...
I guess I’ll let you know in 6-12 months if it’s still doable. I started with 11$ and I have 200$ in online earnings playing micro stakes. Come back to this comment at the start of next year and I’ll update you.
Why does building the pot preflop decrease your postflop edge?
the deeper you are, the bigger your edge can be. In the extreme case, if you go all in preflop, your postflop edge is zero.
best poker content always?
Btw on ACR on day 2s 80-90% of the field makes the money. Which changes some of your equations for me. Still get you thoo. Im almost never a small stack going into day 2s, either. I have a big stack, or im knocked out haha
Is ACR not legit??? Or not available in all states?
Online casino i can trust to play? I live in the state of florida
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Very informative video Little 🤘🏻
Farout soooo many poker pros in the chat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that have probably never seen a flop and would fold to their own bluff 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spin and go is also great, which no one mentions. I have been making money for months playing 1$ spin and go and just playing one hour a day with the chance to hit up to 10000x.
I do t think so. Because spin and go is with 3 person and more then 70 procent of the time it only comes dubbel buyin to win… not profitable at all
@@ewadrerrie4747 I agree. To be profitable in a sit n go format, I'd think you would need to be winning more than 65% of the time.
@@lesliehamilton2020 yes its a waste of money. I tried it so mutch times. Its very rare that you wil hit 5x buy in or more, one time i gott 27 times in a row dubbel buy in!!! Its robbery
@@ewadrerrie4747 you are right. I wish they make sit and go 3 people and give us the choice to play for 2.8$ every 1$ match without all this 10000x bullshit, Would have been a lot better and would have won much more. My problem is i got used so much to 3 players, mastered it,
And cant go back to 6 players.
Spin and go is rigged... it won't never ever be 1k... you can play it for 20 hours a day/20 years you won't see it happen ever... just stop lying to yourself!!
I like the fact that you are not sugarcoating in in your video and trying to be realistic.
great video
Thanks!
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Its interesting thinking about super high stakes stream players like nik airball, doug polk, and whatnot. They got there by playing poker but their play is not for profit, its the publicity. right?
what if our bankroll is $2?
In my country 100k is a big money....if u play 40 to 80 hours per week, when do u study?
Find the study u can beat and study a lot?😄
Omfg Eminem CDs lol the goat not a bad collection haha
The definition of the phrase “Sorry…not sorry” 27:07 mark
Anyone else here who is still playing Sit n Gos ? They are dying but still cool and a good way to build a bankroll
I am, I have played around 3000 games in the last 6 months, yes it is great, I started with $10 and now I am on $600, where do you play? I am on party poker?
@@MrCleon22 Cool, that sounds great. I play a lot 5 and 10$ SNGs on Pokerstars. Its not easy but possible to beat those games + a ton of rakeback. Good luck for you mate
@@djevevejejeheh8211 Awesome, I am looking to join some new poker rooms, to increase my volume, So I will look into stars, I wish you the best of luck......... Actually I wish that we both gain so much skill in the game that luck becomes irrelevant! lol
Is it ok to use your poker bankroll to pay for the expenses associated with poker? Such as flights and hotel?
When it says from 100 to 100,000 in half a year thats not realistic. Going X2 your bankroll from 50,000 to 100,000 in the example playing 100 hours would need a winrate of 500 an hour. Where would you find a winrate of 500 an hour? You'd have to play 25/50 and put up like 5-10K at a minimum which is way outside of bankroll management for a 50K bankroll. For say 25K to 50K thats also unrealistic where you going to find games winning 250 an hour where a 25K bankroll is appropriate?
My official new life goal - shoot a hole in one in the AM and win a poker tourney in the PM😂
Thanks for the content. Would you play some online mtt streams every week, would be great. Thanks
Buuuut, if you go to the 3 hour away casino, you have plenty of time to binge Jonathan Little/poker coaching videos en route!
It’s hard when you living check to check with bills
I heard NY had great Cash games Before the casinos
This is absolutely absurd. Hardly anyone that starts with only $100 is going to be able to make $500/hr in the last step 6 months later. They probably won't ever even make $100/hr.
What game would you even suggest someone can make $500 in where $50k is good banroll management?
What percentage of your bankroll should you use to take a shot at bigger stakes? For example, I’d need to have $45,000 or more to have a bankroll to play 2/5 Max $1500 buy-in. Should I be taking a shot at 2/5 once I get my bankroll over $15,000?
If you have the skill set, you can play once you have about 11 to 13k. Whatever makes you comfy. When I had 15k, I had a 10k stop loss (about 14 $700 buy ins) and told myself I will go back to 1/3 with the 5k (I have a job). Remember, you can buy in for 500 and still be 100bigs deep.
Seriously, if you know how to fold, move up. There are some terrible players POST FLOP at 2/5. Aren't you tired of all the limp, over callers at 1/3 anyways?lol the ones at 2/5 will whale it to you.
No you should NOT be taking a shot at 2/5. You should be taking a shot once you have 35-45 buy ins since those games require a higher variance
2/5 is easier to play than 1/3 if you have poker math knowledge but you also need people reading skills. At 2/5 most people play properly not like 1/3 which is like semi limit games where everyone calls or everyone folds at 2/5 you can control how many people call with the bet sizing. This is where wanna be pros are.
@@jeffreysaldana677 Jeffrey still gets stacked with the 4th nuts. Fold it next time
@@jeffreysaldana677 So you're saying that I should play 2/5 with once I get a full bankroll for those stakes for I have no previous experience with even playing in games that big? That seems like a good way to move down in stakes again.
This proves you need 10,000 hours to master a skill and that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
The 10,000 hour mark has been proven to be bullsh. It is about the quality and not the quality. If you focus on the best way to learn, you can do it in far less.
CD’s? Young children? Hey, some of us had an 8 track and/or cassette player in our first car. 😂😂😂
Doubling is a fun dream. Start with $100 and pick 10 correct sports bets in a row it’s way easier that way hahahaha
I would say it's better to play at the 3 hour away casino than the one. Rent a hotel for 2 days play 14 hours a day. Go home.
As almost 14 years of experience with online poker and continuously improving, I know that this does not work because the sites are rigged,
I've been copying a lot from streamers and it amazes me how much luckier they are than me, and they are certainly no better at the game than me.
You mean well with this video and you are completely right provided the game is fair
I admire your confidence.
I started playing consistently for the past 3 months and won $58/hr. Unfortunately, I was splurging with my bankroll 😭
Find a game you can beat play it a lot and hopefully they don't kick you out for winning too much.
After about a year and four months of playing with this group they kicked me out because I win too much.
There was 2 of us they kicked out. They said it was like derek juder playing with the girl softball team. They didn't understand why we were playing with them and we should be playing against better competition.
They played tournaments and I didn't cash every time but I was catching around 45% of the time and had an ROI over 100%.
It was a good ride.
When you play in this day and age, it’s always a coin flip everyone is willing to flip now
I know this is 6 months later but my bank roll mainly involves hunting those players that are willing to flip anything. you snipe them with an all in when you have top 2 hands and 910 times you walk away doubling your stack.
Last time i read your book i went broke😂 so nah ty
Yeah went from free role to $60 but then had to buy gas and smokes. Man I f I could just live for free. I already stopped eating food but fuel and nicotine I can not live without.
How to make money? Just double your bankroll every week haha
The $x/hr goes up every time you double
So you're saying I should be adding money to my bankroll to speed things up?
This math doesn’t make sense to me, you can just double your roll every 2 weeks if you make 10bb/hr in 3/5 live cash and play 120 hours a month that’s only roughly 60k profit
Half a year. $100 into 100k. 40 hours a week. Alright challenge excepted.
I think that the level of the players is really not proportional to the stakes you are playing
I wish you would tell rampage to maybe slow it down a bit and not blow his bankroll cuz he is playing big tournaments left and right.
How much is in his bankroll?
He has insane views on youtube though so it's probably still positive EV for him.
So what happens when you get your money in good and you lose every time you play?
You won't lose every time over the long run, it will come around eventually.
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Accurate.
Listen let's say you play 10 sessions 6 hours each session. How many sessions are you supposed to win if you are really good. If you win six sessions that means you lost four sessions since variance is inevitable so you won two sessions and let's say you win and lose same amount of money. Then you calculate hourly rate.
I think it’s the wrong way to look at it. Use whatever modern software is possible like PokerTracker or w/e. Study your graph and figure out where your leaks are. You can go on downswings for no reason other than “shit happens”.
maybe 1 in a million players would be able to do that.
Subtle flex telling us he spends 50k a month
I think is not real double the bankroll every month
I find people I can beat
*most people aren't lazy, they have 40h a week jobs that pay more than $5/h...
your example assumes you can make over 1000 an hour
Step 1:
Win
Great coaching but definitely comes off as insufferable at times.
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pahahaha brev I love poker and take it seriously... but 5 hours a day for 25 weeks straight is fucking intense
You have to get lucky too lol
Coach I love your webinars but today I think you went a little bit too much out of the line. I think you are forgetting the fact that we might loose somewhere down the road because we are not that good/ or professional
I have a problem with Cash Games, cause at first I always win but I never know when to leave so at the end I lose all my buy in Money cause of higher pots I played. It‘s always the same, can‘t build up my bankroll like that. In tournaments (sit n gos) this problem doesn‘t exist.
From now on when u play cash..try to walk away when u grind it up. Doesn't have to be a big win..just make a habit of doing that then you'll see your bankroll start growing
@@craigerc713 so you mean like when I bought in with 1$ and have 1,20$ at a certain time I should leave? Cause most of the time I do like 1,80$ and want to get more but lose it all at the end cause of risky plays where I played higher pots.
@@nicshy9074 yes...its habit forming. So when you get better and build your bankroll and move up...your winnings will be higher when you get up and leave instead of staying and get coolered and lose your whole stack.
@@nicshy9074 You need to learn to play with deeper stacks. It's just not the same game when you have 200+ big blinds. With strong preflop hand selection you are much more likely a money favorite in lower stack games than when you still have a lot of chips behind after the flop. The larger the stacks the more complex the game becomes because implied odds are better and there are just more options available. If it's all in there is no counter play. When there are still a lot of chips behind there is room for floating the flop or turn or raising any street as a bluff or value or 3 betting or 4 betting or even 5 betting if the stacks are deep enough. It becomes exponentially more complex the deeper the stacks are.
Most hate stop loss rules but rule 1 find a game you can beat. Rule 2 bring no more then 2-3 buy ins, never bring the full bankroll you'll chase loses. rule 3 when you double up.. leave.. unless the games jucey. Rule 4 stop loss, if you have more then double, and lose 25% leave.
All you gotta do is a pull a Darvin moon - Satellite into the main event - and get 2nd place - Bankroll accomplished
$1.00 x hour?? playing heads up for starters