Completely Appreciate the Honesty! One of the reasons you are one of the few vloggers I continue to view. WAY TOO MANY in the vlogging space cherry-pick their sessions or are more about generating click bait by punting $$$. "Life-Roll" is real and for those of us that no longer dwell in the basements of their parents homes, or have financial responsibilities, bank roll and life-roll often determine our approach to business/hobbies. As for game selection... Personally, I am not as concerned with the blind sizing as I am with the amount of $$$ on table. I played a $2/$5 game that had a $1200.00 max buy-in and there was about $10K on the table... Easy Game with an amount available that will pay the mortgage. Keep grinding my friend!
I found your videos after I played my first ever hand of poker last year, won money through sheer dumb luck and wanted to replicate with precision. You’ve helped me get there man, I’m regularly grinding in the 1/3 streets, no shame in lower stakes and what works for you !
Hey man. Just wanted to leave a positive comment for you to read. I am 21 with a wife and a baby on the way, so I understand some of how you’re feeling. I’m working a job I absolutely hate to provide while I work on my side hobby and true passion real estate. I say that to say I respect you for taking the leap and trying to pursue what you are actually passionate about. I wish I could do that at this point. I watch you even tho I don’t know anything about poker because I find your commentary and personality enjoyable. Keep making videos man, I’m sure you’ll succeed.
Learning a lot from you man. Winning more than losing ever since i started watching your videos about 2 months ago. I just shook your hand earlier too. I learned how to squeeze and steal blinds no kidding. Love your videos thanks!
nice to see another video from you brodie! something i always take value from when watching your vids are the obvious but disciplined folds you find fairly easily even with nice premiums preflop, which i admire a ton. since becoming more of a 5/5 gardens regular ive really enjoyed implementing stuff from your vids in my own play. loving all the content from you dawg, keep cookin
I know it may suck and sound unglamorous to move down in stakes but it will be much less stressfull mentally & financially which will help you play better in the longrun🙂. Responsible bankroll is key!
As a long time viewer I appreciate your honesty in your intro, I hope u continue to run good, and I was dying laughing when u had the 10s vs AQo, when I play tourneys online thats how I be yelling at my screen: "HOLD! HOLD! HOLD!" lol cause the difference between a winning and losing session is wining your flips and hitting your draws
Cards run like that sometimes, I find myself saying "I don't love it" and call often lately. All I can tell you is that eventually things will get back to "normal" and those chips will find their way home to your stack. Best of luck my friend.
Thanks my man - always an honor to see you watch a video of mine. Luckily things have been going much better for me this past month 🙏 best of luck to you on the felt as well
Nothing wrong with going back down to the $5 blind level. I think if you play well and consistent you can build it back up slowly. Don’t pay people off when you know they aren’t capable of bluffing and allow the fish to make 100-200 BB mistakes post flop
@@BrantzenPoker I commented initially before watching the video. But you are C betting on boards where you have no business C betting like the A8 hand. That will add up. And be sure to pay attention to stack sizes. I think you are blinded by the runbad and ignoring the fundamentals that got you here. Go back to the basic. Which hands to open, raise, which boards to bet or check and you’ll see a massive improvement.
I don’t care what stakes you play, I just love watching your videos! I hope you can keep doing it full time but I know you’ll make the right decision for your family.
Garden player here. Its fun to see 5/5 stream from the garden. 5/5/10 plays more like 10/20 since straddle is often mandatory and the cap is $800 i think. So, if you run card dead for 1 hour, well you will bleed to death. So if you dont want anything crazy, the 5/5 is often the best choice at the garden.
@@ericdoheny9108 Yeah, but there is no other choice. And the Garden is a very nice poker room. It could be worse, we could be living in Alabama. By the way, here is a dad joke, "How do you call a girl in Alabama who runs from her cousins?"
Kudos to you for making the responsible decision of going back to 5/5. you'll be back at 5/5/10 soon enough! I guess that also means I gotta make my way back to the Gardens to help boost your bankroll with my badass punting skills!
I think it was a very good decision for you to play more within the size of your bankroll. Yes, the wins will be less for the most part but your losses and variance will be a lot better too! Don’t forget that these lower limit games are more about value and having the best hand at the river, rather than bluffs and/or semi bluffing. You can’t really afford to Cbet into 2 other players with AK high with no immediate 8 or 9 card out drawing hand cause they are gonna call you down with 2nd and 3rd pair hands! Hope it works for you and good luck!
You are a good player. Things will turn around. I grinded for a year when i was in a jam. And it wasn't too bad. P.s. Friday nights have the best games.
If Hawaiian Gardens is your main card room its hard to squeeze out a high win rate because of the constant bomb pots they have. New player bom pot, and every dealer change bomb pot. If players are constantly filtering out then thats alot of bomb pots that add up
We love the transparency man, do what you need to keep your family strong. Not here for the high stakes necessarily, just here for solid poker content and you as a cool content creator
Never let ego get in the way of the right choice. Stepping down a bit is the right thing, and when competition is generally "easier" you can build again.
Your energy and comedy is amazing. Putting the pressure of having to cover 7500/month with poker is rpugh You really want a minimum of 6 months living expenses socked aside, a separate bankroll and a plan B and C should it not work out Glad to see you drop down in stakes and work on rebuilding, it'd the smart play
He first needs to figure out if hes a winning player first. If he actually is then its just variance. If hes not then hes gonna be bleeding money no matter what
@@BrantzenPokerthe need for you to justify makes me think you might not be a winning player. Maybe through all your sources of income TH-cam merch ect you’re a winning player but not so sure with poker. Took time to justify to him but not other positive fans leaving messages on here.
@@hippieflipp3213 Except that by the time he posted here he had already responded to numerous other people and then continued to respond to rmore after. Even if the "you answered so therefore you're lying by the rules I just made up" logic was set aside, your direct claim that he responded here but not to other people is completely, verifiably false.
Well you do have to understand this session is over 5 hours - and a lot of the bigger decisions will be in 3 bet/ 4bet pots. So it may seem more likely than it actually occurs. And every time, it was a pretty nutted holding
That would be true except for the fact that around 85% of my subscribers came from short form content. If they were all long form content watchers then this would be true, but as is I make around $7-$10 per 1,000 views. So this video made around $150, and I spent around 7-8 hours editing it
@@BrantzenPoker it’s really close to me as well. But my nursing school is in Alhambra so commerce is right there. But I always have better games there. My luck at gardens plus player interactions have always been bad 🥴
And it don’t make sense because the same guys you saying only 3betting As your saying they would push 250 on top of a pot sized bet with top pair prolly wouldn’t be both
I also don’t believe this is true. A lot of lower stakes players don’t want to balloon the pot pre because there’s no guarantees but overplay/overcommit when they flop top pair
I like the content and your editing but honestly poker isn't as great as what everyone hypes it up to be. Even 5-5-10 at hg isn't a real game where max buy is what 800? To make money you probably need to be playing the deeper 5-10 or 10-20 at commerce. Just jump into a career with growth, benefits and progression than grinding LA live games for a living. Might be cool when you're 25 but when you have a wife, kids and real obligations, it's not fun to grind poker like it is to treat it as a fun hobby. All the best to you regardless what you choose but I feel your pain cause I wanted to do the online poker grinder life before. Thank God black Friday happened and I make 200k at somewhat stable career now.
I agree with a lot of your statements, but my main goal is to build a reliable income around content creation. Eventually, I hope my poker income won’t be something I have to rely on, but instead, just icing on the cake
I think we share too much with ppl on the internet man. No need to tell us your wife is going back to work, just drop stakes and make the vids, we’ll support
I think I’ve already opened that box up though, of full transparency, and what it looks like to play poker as more than just a hobby, to support a family. I think it would be more dishonest to pretend like it’s totally easy to support a family on a sole income of playing poker
@@BrantzenPoker To what the original commenter said. I think in this hyped social media era, where people only show the highs, and not the lows, just to keep gaining viewers, likes in the drive for more income is just not genuine. I agree, there is a lot that people share or overshare, and as a choice, someone can unsubscribe, as freely as the person who shares more or shares an honest view of their journey. Brantzen is showing that he is human, he has the same "life" situations as the rest of us, and is humble enough to share. I can bet there is more to it, but he opens up enough to give the viewer an understanding. Brantzen, I met you at HG with only 5k followers (2yrs ago), you are doing something right, heck you even got a guy to comment and follow you and he knows nothing about poker, hahah...You are genuine as they come, keep being you man.
@@TomRauhe touché. I think 120 buyins is way more than enough for a cash game bankroll, but you’re 100% right as far as for supporting a family. Wish I could say I started with $120k.
@@BrantzenPoker you were talking about 5/5/10 or something, the buyin there should be around 2500, for which 40 BBs is 100k. And 40 buyins is the utmost minimum for a cash bankroll. You will be on 30 BB downswings with which you will have to deal. If YOU have to deal with that, that's not an issue. If a family has to deal with that, that's a whole other story
Ah - yeah, the $5/5/10 I play is an $800 cap, so it’s definitely a different story than a $2.5k buyin game. I assume you’re talking about a 30 buyin downswing vs a 30 BB downswing, but if you are losing 30 buyins in a 250 BB game, that’s a 7,500 BB downswing, which, I’m sorry to say, I don’t think is really a downswing. I think that would be a pretty clear indicator that you’re losing in that game
I mean a lot of these players are like that. I mean it definitely depends on what card room you’re at. At the gardens, most of the aggressive players are playing higher stakes than the $5/5, so most of the $5/5 players have an insanely tight 3! And 4! Range
I know that videos don't create a lot of income unless you produce a lot of content. Your channel won't grow unless you do. Try putting out at least 1 video and multiple shorts, win or lose. Everyone loves someone who is trying..just saying, keep grinding buddy and good luck 👍
@BrantzenPoker thanks for your reply, wish me luck as I'm off to my 2/5 game. Try mixing up with your variance in lower stakes by being aggressive, I find it works mostly for me as everyone see me as loose
Living in Southern California as a family of 3 is pretty costly. I’d say that’s pretty average or on the low end of where I’m at when you factor mortgage, bills, insurance, food, gas. And life has just gotten more and more expensive
@BrantzenPoker that comment makes no sense if losing $1200 in one month forces you to go to lower stakes. Someone who is trying to play poker for a living needs at least 100 buy ins (which is $5,000 if you are buying in for $500), although 200 buy ins is much better, and at least 6 months of expenses (at $7500/month, that would be $45,000). So AT MINIMUM you should have $50k set aside. If you don't have at least $50k in the bank all the time, month in, month out, you are doing your family a HUGE disservice and you'd be better off getting a full time job. And just as a side note, you'd need a win rate of roughly $47 an hour, playing 40 hours a week just to cover your $7500/month expenses.
@@EricLeetFishingyou’re talking about bankroll management, and he’s talking about money. If he’s never had a job that makes $30/hr, making $35/hr at poker would be much better regardless of the stakes he’s playing. So even if he’s not making that $47/hr he’s still doing better than jobs he’s previously had.
You are entertaining, but you’re never gonna make $7500 a month playing in the games you’re playing in now. You need to go back to work and build up a real bank roll if you ever hope to make a living at playing poker. 😮
To be fair, the main goal is for sponsorships and TH-cam ad revenue to comprise the bulk of my income. I’d love to not have to rely on playing poker. For now, my wife and I will be balancing our roles so it takes a lot of stress off me individually
GARDENS CASINO i play their 500 5 card PLO, its awesome u can buy in for 500 and get to 3000 pretty fast then i will move down to their 12/24 e.0 its pretty fun u can make 900 real fast
Completely Appreciate the Honesty! One of the reasons you are one of the few vloggers I continue to view. WAY TOO MANY in the vlogging space cherry-pick their sessions or are more about generating click bait by punting $$$. "Life-Roll" is real and for those of us that no longer dwell in the basements of their parents homes, or have financial responsibilities, bank roll and life-roll often determine our approach to business/hobbies. As for game selection... Personally, I am not as concerned with the blind sizing as I am with the amount of $$$ on table. I played a $2/$5 game that had a $1200.00 max buy-in and there was about $10K on the table... Easy Game with an amount available that will pay the mortgage. Keep grinding my friend!
I found your videos after I played my first ever hand of poker last year, won money through sheer dumb luck and wanted to replicate with precision. You’ve helped me get there man, I’m regularly grinding in the 1/3 streets, no shame in lower stakes and what works for you !
Ah that’s awesome! Congrats! Keep it up 👍
Hey man. Just wanted to leave a positive comment for you to read. I am 21 with a wife and a baby on the way, so I understand some of how you’re feeling. I’m working a job I absolutely hate to provide while I work on my side hobby and true passion real estate. I say that to say I respect you for taking the leap and trying to pursue what you are actually passionate about. I wish I could do that at this point. I watch you even tho I don’t know anything about poker because I find your commentary and personality enjoyable. Keep making videos man, I’m sure you’ll succeed.
I seriously appreciate the time to write a positive comment. I hope you find a path to work where you feel passionate 👍 good luck my man
Just another excellent vlog! Really loved the intro and appreciate you breaking down the struggle (money and emotional) of playing poker as a pro.
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Great video. Nice to see your honesty about the big picture but also the folds and losses. Hang in there and you'll be back.
Thanks 🙏 yeah I think if I’m gonna show this journey, then honesty is such an important part
Learning a lot from you man. Winning more than losing ever since i started watching your videos about 2 months ago. I just shook your hand earlier too.
I learned how to squeeze and steal blinds no kidding. Love your videos thanks!
Ahhh that’s so awesome to hear! Good to see you last night and best of luck on the felt!
"Why are the videos in negative tone?" "Because it's POKER Phil!"
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nice to see another video from you brodie! something i always take value from when watching your vids are the obvious but disciplined folds you find fairly easily even with nice premiums preflop, which i admire a ton. since becoming more of a 5/5 gardens regular ive really enjoyed implementing stuff from your vids in my own play. loving all the content from you dawg, keep cookin
Thanks! Best of luck in the gardens streets!
U be back in no time I saw u a Friday like 2 weeks ago grinding like a champ
Thanks brother
I know it may suck and sound unglamorous to move down in stakes but it will be much less stressfull mentally & financially which will help you play better in the longrun🙂. Responsible bankroll is key!
Appreciate you! And totally agree 👍
As a long time viewer I appreciate your honesty in your intro, I hope u continue to run good, and I was dying laughing when u had the 10s vs AQo, when I play tourneys online thats how I be yelling at my screen: "HOLD! HOLD! HOLD!" lol cause the difference between a winning and losing session is wining your flips and hitting your draws
Totally hahaha
Nice Brantzen. I went busto playing poker. Picking up cans from the trash and doing online surveys now.
I never say no to an easy online survey 😂
You got it Brantzen! More content = more money too right? Let’s see a crazy summer comeback
Hopefully so! Should be a good time with more content coming!
Cards run like that sometimes, I find myself saying "I don't love it" and call often lately. All I can tell you is that eventually things will get back to "normal" and those chips will find their way home to your stack. Best of luck my friend.
Thanks my man - always an honor to see you watch a video of mine. Luckily things have been going much better for me this past month 🙏 best of luck to you on the felt as well
Nothing wrong with going back down to the $5 blind level. I think if you play well and consistent you can build it back up slowly. Don’t pay people off when you know they aren’t capable of bluffing and allow the fish to make 100-200 BB mistakes post flop
Great points
@@BrantzenPoker I commented initially before watching the video. But you are C betting on boards where you have no business C betting like the A8 hand. That will add up. And be sure to pay attention to stack sizes. I think you are blinded by the runbad and ignoring the fundamentals that got you here. Go back to the basic. Which hands to open, raise, which boards to bet or check and you’ll see a massive improvement.
@@SqueakyClean87 I will say, I think in a 3 bet pot in that configuration, I should be cbetting near 100% on that board
I don’t care what stakes you play, I just love watching your videos! I hope you can keep doing it full time but I know you’ll make the right decision for your family.
Thanks man I always appreciate your encouragement and positivity
Garden player here. Its fun to see 5/5 stream from the garden. 5/5/10 plays more like 10/20 since straddle is often mandatory and the cap is $800 i think. So, if you run card dead for 1 hour, well you will bleed to death.
So if you dont want anything crazy, the 5/5 is often the best choice at the garden.
The $5/5 is definitely a much lower variance route
Cali poker sounds like shallow caps & insane rake. Not worth it
@@ericdoheny9108 Yeah, but there is no other choice. And the Garden is a very nice poker room. It could be worse, we could be living in Alabama.
By the way, here is a dad joke, "How do you call a girl in Alabama who runs from her cousins?"
Runaway bride? 😅
@@BrantzenPoker A virgin.
Yours work as well.
Kudos to you for making the responsible decision of going back to 5/5. you'll be back at 5/5/10 soon enough! I guess that also means I gotta make my way back to the Gardens to help boost your bankroll with my badass punting skills!
😂😂😂
9:45 this is literally hilarious 😂 😂😂
He right.
I think i would die of stress not having a steady and predictable income. still enjoy your content, good luck.
Hahaha it definitely is a stressful way of making money 😅
I think it was a very good decision for you to play more within the size of your bankroll. Yes, the wins will be less for the most part but your losses and variance will be a lot better too! Don’t forget that these lower limit games are more about value and having the best hand at the river, rather than bluffs and/or semi bluffing. You can’t really afford to Cbet into 2 other players with AK high with no immediate 8 or 9 card out drawing hand cause they are gonna call you down with 2nd and 3rd pair hands! Hope it works for you and good luck!
You are a good player. Things will turn around. I grinded for a year when i was in a jam. And it wasn't too bad. P.s. Friday nights have the best games.
Thanks! And I agree ☝️
If Hawaiian Gardens is your main card room its hard to squeeze out a high win rate because of the constant bomb pots they have. New player bom pot, and every dealer change bomb pot. If players are constantly filtering out then thats alot of bomb pots that add up
That’s for the $5/5/10 but I’ve had a pretty decent hourly in that game, as there’s usually decent game selection
We love the transparency man, do what you need to keep your family strong. Not here for the high stakes necessarily, just here for solid poker content and you as a cool content creator
You’re always the best, my man
Nice Vlog and enjoy your honesty.
Thanks 🙏
I think we all understand and appreciate the honesty
Thanks man
A true pro. will not likely to loss in the long run.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Never let ego get in the way of the right choice. Stepping down a bit is the right thing, and when competition is generally "easier" you can build again.
Totally agree, great points 👍
Love the honesty and wise financial move.
Also, I expect you to hear from Dick Wolf's lawyers shortly.
Thanks Lee - I think it was the right move as well; at least for now. And 😂 yeah I better watch out
Top tier content always
Appreciate you my brother
👍🏻 money isnt always the goal in ur lower stake career! Build ur character and ur way of playing
Thanks 🙏 but money is also pretty important to live 😂
Great vlog! Keep at it.
Thanks!!
Interesting return to the 5-5 streets!
FYI, it's "mano a mano" (hand to hand), not "mano y mano" (hand and hand).
Ahhhh good to know 😅 my bad
Lots of big lay downs this one. Nice!
Thanks!
Had to subscribe because of the brave heart clips
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the fact that you can get away from AK vs AA for 15bbs is a freaking miracle. games are good!
Thank god I was right 😂
How many days a week are you at the Gardens?
3-4
Those sound effects...🎙🎚🎛 😂🤣😅🤣
Do you have a coach or how did you learn the math and strategies?
ty for redmingin me why i hate poker and stopped polaying so often lmao but love the editting
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Whats the br for a 5/5?
Very dependent on if you have a different source of income, what the buyin is, and your avg win rate
Love your videos, good luck
Thank you my man
Your energy and comedy is amazing. Putting the pressure of having to cover 7500/month with poker is rpugh
You really want a minimum of 6 months living expenses socked aside, a separate bankroll and a plan B and C should it not work out
Glad to see you drop down in stakes and work on rebuilding, it'd the smart play
He first needs to figure out if hes a winning player first. If he actually is then its just variance. If hes not then hes gonna be bleeding money no matter what
😂 I think my last few thousand hours would suggest that I am a winning player
@@BrantzenPokerthe need for you to justify makes me think you might not be a winning player. Maybe through all your sources of income TH-cam merch ect you’re a winning player but not so sure with poker. Took time to justify to him but not other positive fans leaving messages on here.
@@hippieflipp3213 Except that by the time he posted here he had already responded to numerous other people and then continued to respond to rmore after.
Even if the "you answered so therefore you're lying by the rules I just made up" logic was set aside, your direct claim that he responded here but not to other people is completely, verifiably false.
i love you videos soo much dont stop with that you are the best i like you journey
Thanks! I’m not stopping! 😁
Been rough for me too lately
It’s an honor to have you comment on my video brother
I also love how you said there’s minimal 3-betting at these stakes and proceed to get 3 and 4-bet into oblivion 😂
Well you do have to understand this session is over 5 hours - and a lot of the bigger decisions will be in 3 bet/ 4bet pots. So it may seem more likely than it actually occurs. And every time, it was a pretty nutted holding
@@BrantzenPoker got you. Appreciate the content man. Hope you run it up this month
Good luck dude
On certain spots you gotta fold and learn hmto play the players and not your cards..
Great video
Thanks 🙏
"Oh he has jack 8 of clubs" -Real
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We neeed weeekly videossss
Doin my best - that’s my goal! Trying to up the content now
How does this man get such good hands everytime
I think it just seems that way. These were the best hands I got over a 7-8 hour session
I just don’t get the point of playing 5/5 when Burger King on jamboree in Irvine has been advertising $22.50 an hour since July
Backup plan
Atleast your wife is supportive of you playing game you enjoy!! That’s hard to find!
Definitely - very fortunate to have a supportive partner
What do you do about healthcare insurance
Just have to shop plans through the public marketplace
Lowering Stakes is the correct way
You honestly play better than Rampage. You do not punt every single hand, unlike him
Is $500 the max for this game?
It’s a $600 cap but I typically just buyin for $500
To supplement your gambling career you should open up a day care center and give the kids poker lessons
Genius
Alot of lower stakes tips in this video
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Man so many decent cards but no luck for the first half of this vid... Feels bad, But that's the way she goes sometimes!
Totally!
Huge fail not to edit in the braveheart hold scene on the TT vs AQ
Missed opportunity 😞
You need to translate to PLO. Non stop action and more actions and money
There’s definitely a lot of money in plo but unfortunately I’m not the best at it myself
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You need to post more then. TH-cam should be able to pay all of your bills with over 150k subs.
That would be true except for the fact that around 85% of my subscribers came from short form content. If they were all long form content watchers then this would be true, but as is I make around $7-$10 per 1,000 views. So this video made around $150, and I spent around 7-8 hours editing it
Absolutely nothing wrong with going down in levels. Alot of players would rather go broke than move down and I think that's ridiculous.
Totally - a lot of people’s egos get in the way of their success
Come play commerce with me man!
Maybe someday! But the gardens is so much closer for me 😂
@@BrantzenPoker it’s really close to me as well. But my nursing school is in Alhambra so commerce is right there. But I always have better games there. My luck at gardens plus player interactions have always been bad 🥴
Tough.❤
Good luck...bro! Do work 💪
I’ll do my best!
That 5-5-10 game at the gardens is the STUPIDEST game I have ever seen in poker. The bomb pot is stupid
Hahaha it’s a crazy ton of bomb pots - though you learn how to navigate them better as you play more
And it don’t make sense because the same guys you saying only 3betting As your saying they would push 250 on top of a pot sized bet with top pair prolly wouldn’t be both
I also don’t believe this is true. A lot of lower stakes players don’t want to balloon the pot pre because there’s no guarantees but overplay/overcommit when they flop top pair
I like the content and your editing but honestly poker isn't as great as what everyone hypes it up to be. Even 5-5-10 at hg isn't a real game where max buy is what 800? To make money you probably need to be playing the deeper 5-10 or 10-20 at commerce. Just jump into a career with growth, benefits and progression than grinding LA live games for a living. Might be cool when you're 25 but when you have a wife, kids and real obligations, it's not fun to grind poker like it is to treat it as a fun hobby. All the best to you regardless what you choose but I feel your pain cause I wanted to do the online poker grinder life before. Thank God black Friday happened and I make 200k at somewhat stable career now.
I agree with a lot of your statements, but my main goal is to build a reliable income around content creation. Eventually, I hope my poker income won’t be something I have to rely on, but instead, just icing on the cake
It’s a much different goal than just pushing the envelope as a pure poker player
When is your birthday, Brant?
July
@@BrantzenPoker When in July?
Thought this was a 4betblind vid smh
I wish
2/5 probably the sweet spot
There’s no 2/5 game at the gardens. It goes from 2/3 to 5/5. You can’t buy deep at either game. 2/3 is max $200 and 5/5 is max $600.
Unless he has J8 of clubs 😂😂😂
How’s a man to know 😂
Tough to go pro with a monthly expense that high.
California is expensive - plus it’s a family’s expenses not an individual
most players are armatures and it should be easier to beat, hopefully.
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I think we share too much with ppl on the internet man. No need to tell us your wife is going back to work, just drop stakes and make the vids, we’ll support
This…
I think I’ve already opened that box up though, of full transparency, and what it looks like to play poker as more than just a hobby, to support a family. I think it would be more dishonest to pretend like it’s totally easy to support a family on a sole income of playing poker
@@BrantzenPoker To what the original commenter said. I think in this hyped social media era, where people only show the highs, and not the lows, just to keep gaining viewers, likes in the drive for more income is just not genuine. I agree, there is a lot that people share or overshare, and as a choice, someone can unsubscribe, as freely as the person who shares more or shares an honest view of their journey. Brantzen is showing that he is human, he has the same "life" situations as the rest of us, and is humble enough to share. I can bet there is more to it, but he opens up enough to give the viewer an understanding. Brantzen, I met you at HG with only 5k followers (2yrs ago), you are doing something right, heck you even got a guy to comment and follow you and he knows nothing about poker, hahah...You are genuine as they come, keep being you man.
I think he's aloud to share what he wants and is comfortable with. Don't tell others what to do.
Nah we need the entire picture for those of us interested in poker as a career. Keep ur mouth shut kid.
It doesn't sound like you have a bankroll of around 120.000$ to be able to play 5/10?
$120,000? Definitely not, though that’s an extremely conservative roll
@@BrantzenPoker conservative and realistic if you are married with a child...! 🫨
@@TomRauhe touché. I think 120 buyins is way more than enough for a cash game bankroll, but you’re 100% right as far as for supporting a family. Wish I could say I started with $120k.
@@BrantzenPoker you were talking about 5/5/10 or something, the buyin there should be around 2500, for which 40 BBs is 100k. And 40 buyins is the utmost minimum for a cash bankroll. You will be on 30 BB downswings with which you will have to deal. If YOU have to deal with that, that's not an issue. If a family has to deal with that, that's a whole other story
Ah - yeah, the $5/5/10 I play is an $800 cap, so it’s definitely a different story than a $2.5k buyin game. I assume you’re talking about a 30 buyin downswing vs a 30 BB downswing, but if you are losing 30 buyins in a 250 BB game, that’s a 7,500 BB downswing, which, I’m sorry to say, I don’t think is really a downswing. I think that would be a pretty clear indicator that you’re losing in that game
The only thing I don’t like is you think you’re the only that 3bet with anything other than AA and KK and AK that’s no good
I mean a lot of these players are like that. I mean it definitely depends on what card room you’re at. At the gardens, most of the aggressive players are playing higher stakes than the $5/5, so most of the $5/5 players have an insanely tight 3! And 4! Range
Tough way to make a easy living.
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I know that videos don't create a lot of income unless you produce a lot of content. Your channel won't grow unless you do. Try putting out at least 1 video and multiple shorts, win or lose. Everyone loves someone who is trying..just saying, keep grinding buddy and good luck 👍
I’ll do my best - working on the next video as we speak
@BrantzenPoker thanks for your reply, wish me luck as I'm off to my 2/5 game. Try mixing up with your variance in lower stakes by being aggressive, I find it works mostly for me as everyone see me as loose
@@robmckrill3134 good luck!
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7500 a month? is inflation that bad or is this a luxurious lifestyle?
Living in Southern California as a family of 3 is pretty costly. I’d say that’s pretty average or on the low end of where I’m at when you factor mortgage, bills, insurance, food, gas. And life has just gotten more and more expensive
he's saying words I have never heard anyone use in poker, might be a skill issue on my part
like what
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Pretty selfish to think you can provide for your family through poker without a roll
This is all for clout. There’s no way TH-cam doesn’t pay more that that with 130k+ subs
@@jameskim3116 it's about the backend stuff off TH-cam is just the funnel for them
Such a painful way to make a living, especially when you have a wife and child. Best of luck!
Thanks!
Sometimes you need to get a real job.
Get your daughter a job. Make her work. Teach her how to use a sewing machine.
Child labor, smort smort
Or you could find a real job, having family and all. 🤷
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How about just get a real job that pays well then play poker on the side…
Hm to be fair I’ve never had a job I made more money in than playing poker, so it might actually result in making things more difficult
@BrantzenPoker that comment makes no sense if losing $1200 in one month forces you to go to lower stakes. Someone who is trying to play poker for a living needs at least 100 buy ins (which is $5,000 if you are buying in for $500), although 200 buy ins is much better, and at least 6 months of expenses (at $7500/month, that would be $45,000). So AT MINIMUM you should have $50k set aside. If you don't have at least $50k in the bank all the time, month in, month out, you are doing your family a HUGE disservice and you'd be better off getting a full time job. And just as a side note, you'd need a win rate of roughly $47 an hour, playing 40 hours a week just to cover your $7500/month expenses.
@@EricLeetFishingyou’re talking about bankroll management, and he’s talking about money. If he’s never had a job that makes $30/hr, making $35/hr at poker would be much better regardless of the stakes he’s playing. So even if he’s not making that $47/hr he’s still doing better than jobs he’s previously had.
m9 u play so bad m9
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Stick to mindcraft bro
You play face up
Feel sorry for your wife
Good luck on the felt
You are entertaining, but you’re never gonna make $7500 a month playing in the games you’re playing in now. You need to go back to work and build up a real bank roll if you ever hope to make a living at playing poker. 😮
To be fair, the main goal is for sponsorships and TH-cam ad revenue to comprise the bulk of my income. I’d love to not have to rely on playing poker. For now, my wife and I will be balancing our roles so it takes a lot of stress off me individually
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i play their 500 5 card PLO, its awesome u can buy in for 500 and get to 3000 pretty fast
then i will move down to their
12/24 e.0 its pretty fun u can make 900 real fast
Haha I’m not much of a PLO player but that’s awesome
@@BrantzenPoker better value than 2 cards imo