I had no source of income, lost everything, hospitalized twice, and was working stocking shelves for $11.15/hr or something like that -- would work 40 hours a week and bring home less than $1,000 a MONTH and essentially had to start from scratch, having not worked a 'real job' for a boss in over 7-8 years... As most things in life, life finds a way... I was put on to the poker-dealing scene/bubble and, having dealt cards when I was 19/20 for a year or two, had SOME basic experience. But this time around, I was learning a completely new series of games, on-the-job learning, mistake after mistake learning the hard way day after day, with one real objective in my heart: Try to get better at it, everyday. After my first shift, in a less popular room, with less experienced dealers (which the players don't like), you couldn't imagine the elation within me when my supervisor, out of curiosity, asked, 'How much did you make today, if you don't mind me asking." And the jubilation I had when I told him "$77." Which was HUGE for me, having $77 cash to go home with that day--and he felt bad that the room wasn't more populated to provide more, for me--knowing that I was completely struggling with life and in a foreign city, doing a 'real gig' for the first time in 10 years, and just... overall in a bad way trying to pick up the pieces of my life, mind, and spirit. Fast forward to just yesterday [May 2, 2024], I was clocked in for 6.47 hours, I dealt 77 hands during my shift [at cash tables], and really only spent 4 hours *ACTUALLY* dealing cash--and I made $364, during those 4 hours of throwing around cards. Plus I'll have some cash coming my way later this month for dealing some tournament tables and a small envelope for pay-days of clocked-in hours, for the week. Essentially, I averaged last night, $45.50 PER (30 minute) TABLE --> Basically $81/hr yesterday, when you compartmentalize the time spent dealing vs the time spent in the building. Can't quite think of many other gig, with 'no education,' that pays $81/hr... and that number fluctuates any given day.. [I used to play poker with my childhood friends in my teenage years and host at my house--same basement that Disturb Reality started in, and I was always just naturally the smoothest/efficient with the cards/being the dealer]

I feel blessed to hear that these are helping you. I'm in a rough moment in time, and it helps me to read that this is helping you.

@@DisturbReality god bless you

@@SkyStrykerDj God bless us all, amen Sky.

*NA Never had a problem with alcohol - not my vice :P But yes, intense series of ups and downs, undoubtedly <3

I’ll be dj’ing this Tuesday on Memorial Drive in Houston - 7:30 - 9p timeslot, free for everyone and 21+ crowd! Something to think about depending on what you’re doing Tuesday night🙏🎧🙏

Will be filming the next principle over the weekend with hopefully filming another video or two (to have in the can) and release the next principle as early as Tuesday/Wednesday.

Could t have done it, without ya buddy!! Thanks for the nice words🫶🏼❤️🎧

You might find a weird fascination toward numbers❤️

Howdy from Texas!!

Love you back, Kerm! You’ll be delighted to hear how happy and therapeutically peaceful it was to be up until 4+am editing a how-to-style video. Just an additional healthy hobby with great fulfillment of hopefully helping educate someone. And yes! Dad was asking me if this concept is a [in a phrase], waste of time and that ‘When you get hired, don’t they have training videos/an oncoming system to help prepare you for real life situations?’ No, Dad, I’ve never seen anywhere, nor online, a comprehensive course and series of explanations of how to do this-there’s no training, just auditions. Sometimes if you get hired they might do minor one-on-one training, but for the most part, they expect you to know and that’s why it’s an audition🙈

I've been thoroughly enjoying the process. Thanks for the kind words!

Thanks for stickin around for 11 years <3

Thank you for the 10 years of kickin' it, alongside me, been an absolute pleasure to be a source of positivity in your respective life. Who knows what may come, and for how many, those that decide to follow along with learning a new way to actually make a living for oneself, holding a deck of cards.

I was 7 years old when I first found you to be exact

How old are you now, buddy? Thanks for hangin' out, with me!

@@DisturbReality I am 22 years old now, been here since the start :)

Amazing comment awesome story on MANY parallels, Alec!! Don’t know if PLO is popular where you reside, glad to already know that at least ONE long-time viewer may find benefits of this new tutorial series

@@DisturbReality It not that popular but we have it and i just started dealing it. Your latest video is actually very helpful.

@@AlecSchiefer that's amazing, I look forward to seeing you rapidly get better at the craft and hopefully it reflects, nicely, on being able to pay your bills/take care of yourself/save for something nice (y) <3

There's a lot of video/content/information before I recommend going out to apply for a job, in this field -- want you confident, and ready for anything!

No studying. Live ‘figuring it out,’ on-the-fly, learn as you go, over the last 3 years. Picked up a lot of tricks and secret-like ways to think about numbers along the way of repetition to make numbers start making more sense. Plan on sharing those secrets and information in hopes some of those watching can maybe find a path to make some money, the way I have.

It took a good handful of players saying ‘Pot!’ And me sitting there like, ‘uhhhrrrr’ and a few ‘I don’t knows’ before starting to find shortcuts and easier ways to make the numbers work, for me, and to think far easier.

@DisturbReality Thanks for the advice, im going to try to learn as you post more lessons!

@@mr.universe8253 yes yes, you'll have fun learning! and you'll be absolutely amazed at how your brain can grow to figure out these math principles, with this style of teaching. Keep in mind, it's designed to be challenging at the beginning and work it's way backwards into the easier stuff.

I’ll try to use my lapel microphone instead of the camera’s mic

WAIT! This video used the lapel wireless mic. I agree that it should’ve sounded much better. The follow-up video ‘Principle 1a’ used the camera’s mic after I disliked that audio from THIS video

Thanks for the 9 years of keeping me in your company <3

Yes, you can easily find a part-time job dealing cards in a poker room. Just keep your magic skills a closely guarded secret

You can work, as little as one day a week, for a couple hours, doing this kind of work. Or as much as 14 hours a day, in multiple rooms/home games, and start stacking <3

@@DisturbReality excited to learn more. Sounds like it could be a good opportunity

Thanks for 10 years of keeping me in your subscription feed, dude, through the ups downs hospitalizations and psychosis. Hope to help educate more, in a different path of working with one's mind.

@@DisturbReality Our minds are so complex man, sometimes it feels like we'll never fully understand them. But the more we educate ourselves about it, the more we can see the light in the darkness.

The best response is no response.

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Hope you find a familiar sense of feel in the teaching style❤️

Happy to be right here, right now

His 125 is added to the main pot (as well as 125 from all other bidding players) and then any extra is put into a side pot that can only be won by players who matched the extra amount

I didn’t put all his reds in (roughly $115??), because I’m blowing through a lot of examples in a short period of time. He would be All-In for all his chips - he does not have $385, realistically a total of like $240. Again, I’m going through a lot of hypotheticals to make the understanding of the formula seep in, saving time of putting chips in then pulling them back. But yea, all of his reds and greens WOULD BE thrown in.

If it’s a closely guarded secret, then yes. If you’re sitting at a table and showing players your magical skills, then you wouldn’t be given a job. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, nor does it mean you Do.

Always.

I will take the bird’s eye view angle into play/try to get a more overhead shot with labeling and work on the text being more legible to the viewer. It’s so much information I don’t want to flood the screen with text, but of course, aim for increased improvement of quality while reading comments and taking to heart helpful suggestions, such as this

@DisturbReality I thought the follow up video was really good. 👍 Plus in hindsight after watching,C1_S1_L1, I don't think the labeling is as important. 🤔 At least for the bet costs as it changes so quick. 💨 Plus, there will be no vr labeling if I pursued this live. Gotta have the skill. 💪But 1 high editing labeling round might be nice, then go raw for lifelike feel. I might recommend a tip on how you stack chips for the guests. 💰 Increments of $100 or whatever. It helps too if I pause and want to tally up the players. 🧮 But I'm not sure if you have a system for that. 🤔 due to players fiddling 🎻 with chips.

@@JiagerWufwood I'll be going into jargon and what's 'industry standard,' in most cases. For example, a Standard Stack is 20 chips. 20 white chips = $20, 20 red chips = $100, 20 green chips = $500, 20 black chips = $2,000. Most players will typically keep their stacks in 20-piece stacks, but not everyone abides by that, which is okay - so long as chips aren't spread all around in front of them, and that they aren't keeping their higher-denomination chips in the back/hidden from the table (this, and many rules and etiquette expectancies, we'll be going over) You'll see how I'll be trying to keep this organized as the video series unfolds, as it will get to a point where the viewer watching for the first time in the middle of the series is like, "I like this but I don't know where to start, and I don't know where to go, and I don't know what I should've watched before *this* video." Been mapping this out, mentally, for a bit..

@DisturbReality well I believe firmly in working hardest to easiest! As far as a lost viewer, just plug the Playlist for this video series starting at beginning.

I love teaching/over-explaining things, unnecessarily!!😂😂

@@DisturbReality Nothing unnecessary about it! At least from where I'm standing haha

Thanks for sticking around, buddy. Happy to be here, alongside ya and happy you’ve been able to bring some wonder to others

Will be working on Principle 2a, next - step one of speedily calculating larger numbers mathematically, in your head.

Thanks homie, your love is taken as a blessing <3