Yeah, it seems like you wouldn't be able to beat 50nl online from that live winrate. The quit or not answer is all about how much time and energy you are willing to invest and how far do you want to go. Do you just want to make enough to live a moderate life? Do you want to be the best? Do you want to dedicate thousands of hours into studying poker? Those are few of the many things you need to consider.

Hi Saulo, thanks for taking the time and giving me some advice. I don't think I could even beat 10nl online let alone 50nl haha :). I'm only interested in playing live.
I'm all for studying, I just don't know where to start. How do you study?

I wouldn't quit in your situation.

You're 23 years old and since you saved most of your earnings you have presumably more than £50,000 to your name? Not a lot of 23 year olds are able to say that, so congratulations and well done!

Have you experimented with playing above £2/£5? Are you able to find higher games where you live?

Try out an essential membership. There have been some good Live poker videos at the essential level recently, and may help you out.

If I were you I wouldn't even bother with playing online, and just continue on with Live poker.

Invest in pio solver/flopzilla. Write down the hands live that you want to look at. Reviewing HH is just getting other people's opinions, not the answer. GL

Hi Snowy, it's good to see you've kept accurate statistics and you're trying to be honest with yourself.

It looks like your best win rate across stakes is less than 15 pounds per hour. Assuming you have a university degree (and probably even if you don't), a different career would probably be more lucrative. Just because you have a job that's not poker doesn't mean you can't continue to play poker and get better at it.

Start watching vids here and play zoom micro stakes on PS for a couple hours per day. You will improve extremely quickly putting in large volume, crushing live donks will be laughably easy in comparison.

Grunch (Do people still use that? I might be dating myself...) Anyways... I'd say that you really need to decide if you want to commit yourself to getting really good and making this a career or if you want to go do something else. I think that your worst choice is continuing to play at a mediocre level and not really making much money while also not doing something where there's a ton of room for growth.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with playing poker recreationally and making some money on the side while you work a 9-5 type job but if you want to play professionally you need to take it more seriously and put your hours in doing studying away from the table as well as grinding hours on the table.

If you can't get yourself to put the work in then maybe you just don't really want to do this for a living.

Hi James,
I'm really chuffed that you've replied to my post getting advice from someone as knowledgeable as you is awesome. I'm signing up for the essential plan so I really look forward to watching your videos.
I'm going to continue playing full time and I will study my ass off from this here on out!
Good luck on and off the tables!

This is my first post here on RIO and I'm so taken back with how friendly the community is. I didn't think anyone would take the time to reply to my post, let alone a pro.

ps. I had to urban dictionary the word Grunch. I don't blame you, there's alot to read haha :)

Hey Snowy! You came to the right place to ask this question, and I'm glad to see that others have already given such helpful responses.

I can't speak to the games you play in or your natural abilities, but from what I know about live poker here in Vegas, I'd be very surprised if you couldn't at least double those winrates with some hard work.

Essential videos should open your eyes to some new and valuable concepts if you haven't watched advanced poker training videos before. Since you have so much experience in a live setting, leverage the knowledge that comes with it: Pay particular attention to things that RIO pros do that differ greatly from what your typical casino opponents do. Those differences, which will usually be leaks in your opponents' games, are the areas you need to figure out how to exploit in order to boost your winrate.

As a simple example, if you watch a video and say "whoa, these guys are check-raising the flop with a lot of bluffs my opponents would never make," then your opponents aren't check-raise bluffing the flop nearly enough and you need to make some big folds when they do.

Next, please post hands you've played in the strategy forums here! Give basic details about your opponents and about why you made the plays you did. Insight into what you're thinking will help advanced players find out what leaks you might have, and they will help beginning players improve their own games. Not every response in the forums will be from an expert, but that's the point - we're all here to learn together.

I agree that some online play will help your game, as will online tools, but my strong advice here is to take it slow. Don't download/purchase 3 pieces of software off the bat. PIO is a great tool, but it can be intimidating. I wouldn't start there until you've watched several videos of people using PIO so that you can get familiar with how it works and be honest with yourself about whether it's something you will put time into or not.

In fact, other than starting a free trial of database software to track your online play, I'd recommend not getting any software that you haven't seen used in a video or two first. You know better than anyone else what you understand and will be likely to use.

As someone who personally doesn't do much work with poker software because I find it tedious, I don't want you to overwhelm yourself at the start and quickly say, "ah, I'm not cut out for this online advanced stuff," and quit trying.

I don't know about your other opportunities, so I don't want to push you far down one path or the other, but given that you really enjoy live poker (I wish I did!) and have been playing and winning for a long time, I think it would be a shame if you didn't give it your best effort for at least 6-12 months and see if you can start earning more before deciding to leave the game behind.

Good luck, and please keep us updated on your journey!

Play some online, get a good coach to review your database and give you some sessions on basic topics based on topics and give you homework what you should focus on. I coached some people who lived live in the past like this and I believe it is by far most effective.

Hi Snowy95,
Great to hear about your progress. I've been a live game guy myself & can relate to your self examination.
Which videos specifically have helped you so far? How has the way you think about the game changed?