How Much can you earn as a Cash Game Poker player?

How much does a professional Poker player really earn? Francesco shows through his database and personal experience how much a Cash Game Pro can expect to earn - from Micros to Mid-Stakes
00:00 Intro
01:17 Why you shouldn't measure your skills in bb/100
06:33 How much can you earn by playing Cash Games
10:41 How frequently do you get a losing session
11:40 My worst variance experiences
13:31 Final Tips
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[@XoXRiver]

Very nice and informative video, thank you. The 60 buy-ins downswing sounds terrifying... Impressive win rate, congratulations!

[@dragamoja]

Great content! It's so important to have the right expectations in poker.

[@radomirpl]

Thank you for this video. It helped me understand that poker is a marathon and when swinging or being b/e you just have to play your game and be tough. Of course, this does not mean that you should stop educating yourself or analyzing your game. You have to give yourself time and accept the variance, without it you lose confidence, question your strategy every now and then and just go astray.

[@dimitarnikov3270]

Really good content, mate! Keep up the grind and the good work! Really appreciate you!

[@pokerapprentice]

Hi from Brazil! Great video, very interesting!

[@marcusdl5389]

Ottimo video! Grazie

[@phillipdefant972]

awesome content as always!!!! thank you a lot. i want to go professional soon and this helps me a lot to understand everything

[@vladimirelgrande754]

Great video, thank you very much.

[@elpistolero82]

Hi LAG. I have to agree that a stoploss is a very good idea. For me when I get to minus 4 buy-ins in a session, that is what I use as my stoploss. Do you have any thoughts on a "stop-win" where you stop playing when you are up a certain amount in a session? If I am up 6 buy-ins for example, I don't want to lose what I have won, so sometimes I will sit out from the session then also.

[@LAGPoker]

Hello! I normally use a stop win strategy during a long downswing, when it Is more important to take home some win for the mindset. But it's ok to use It of you feel that kind of pressure.

[@donchivu2726]

GL Francesco, bel canale, così alleno anche un po' il mio inglese ahaha

[@scott22031]

How many buyins would you say is a decent bankroll to see if your winning or losing

[@ToLyLive]

Thank you for sharing!

[@stoicpoker94]

brilliant video really insightful

[@dobuletrobule2313]

Excellent video. Thanks

[@galitzkiy]

Nice topic, thanks

[@delai86]

hello LAG, that hourly $ 7.5 at NL10 , how much multi table u doing?

[@TheOnlyToast]

Is there something in particular that made you surpass Microstakes? Any things that stood out (like "Clicking moments") ?

[@LAGPoker]

I don't think there was a specific clicking moment! If I had to say one thing it probably was when I shifted my focus from "hitting hands" to "exploiting my opponents' leaks".

[@MyFukinBass]

Hello! Been watching your channel for a while now, really amazing content. Thank you! May I ask, at 7:25 you show your earnings, Is that yearly or monthly? I'm just trying to get a graps of how much a poker player like yourself would earn yearly playing part-time as you would.

[@LAGPoker]

Hello, It's a mix of various stakes on stars.com only - it's from a bankroll challenge I made on Twitch and not from my regular grinding. It took about 1.5/2 years of 2-3 hours per day.

[@MyFukinBass]

@@LAGPoker thanks a ton for your answer! So if that’s not your normal grinding, would you say grinding daily is more profitable than what we see in the video or less?

[@dreamdyyboi]

Nice vid! How much is the RB in that hourly calculation at for example 100nl?

[@LAGPoker]

Thanks! It was 40% rb

[@tonyhlk8182]

Thanks for this video I needed it, I became a pro 4 months ago and last month I had the best month in term of income (4k2€ with RB) playing on NL50 zoom, but since february 1st I'm running like complete shit, almost 30 buy-in down for the first time ever and I don't know if I'll make 1k with RB this month. It's pretty rough but I try to keep motivated

[@LAGPoker]

As all downswing, It will pass! GL

[@phillipdefant972]

are you talking about 4 zoom tables at once??

[@LAGPoker]

I played 4x up to NL50 and 2 to 3x NL100 and above (most of the time)

[@stealz6593]

it is okay to play only 4 regular tables if after the fifth table you lose focus? or how many tables do you see as optimal

[@LAGPoker]

Hello and sorry for the late reply. The answer is as many as you can! You should grind the ones you can do with focus, but then try to increase gradually the number with time. I think 8 would be a good number for an online pro.

[@scott22031]

great videos have you used or can you recommend any training material or sites thamks

[@LAGPoker]

Hi, it really depends on your actual stake and skill level. I enjoy RunItOnce content - but it may be a bit too advanced if you are a beginner

[@kemirgentv2kemirgentv287]

great video! do you play gg poker? what do you think about gg poker cash table?

[@LAGPoker]

Hi! I played some volume on GG. I found the field easy, but the take gets pretty high from NL100 and above.

[@kemirgentv2kemirgentv287]

what it is mean ''all-in adj bb/100''? can you please explain that.

[@LAGPoker]

It simulates how my bb/100 would have been, if every time I got it in before the River the pot had been chopped based on my and villain's Equity. It basically removes part of the variance.

[@kemirgentv2kemirgentv287]

@@LAGPoker then actually we should focus ''all-in adj bb'' for long term? i think it gives more realistic result about our ability.

[@LAGPoker]

@@kemirgentv2kemirgentv287 yeah, absolutely

[@adampadubski1052]

Great video. But how many tables do You play at one time?

[@LAGPoker]

Hello, that was mixed 4x Zoom Off-stream and 2x Zoom during streamings on Twitch

[@PandaPower511]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but assuming 30 hands is dealt live poker per hour.. then a good live player can play 7,300 hrs(220k hands) and break even?? That’s some insane variance..

[@dreamdyyboi]

Thats correct, but live poker is also x10 times softer, so your edge will be bigger and therefor the swings and "downswings" more infrequent and shorter because the skilo gaps are bigger (assuming you are a crushing player)

[@LAGPoker]

Yes, but as @menado604 mentioned, you are supposed to have a much higher win rate in live games

[@PandaPower511]

@@LAGPoker what’s your best estimate on how many bb/ hour a good winning live reg can have (30 hand per hour).. and how many hours played can this good live reg go break even for ? Ty

[@maxstar1987]

what is ur twitch bro?

[@asd-nn8qf]

is the hourly earnings on 2 tables ?

[@LAGPoker]

mix 2 to 4 zoom

[@maxstar1987]

hi, from what site this zoom results?

[@LAGPoker]

Pokerstars.com - sorry for the late reply!

[@user-fz3nn6hs7n]

which site are these results from? good video :)

[@LAGPoker]

They are from PokerStars.com - thanks!

[@darylhurst1145]

do you offer coaching?

[@LAGPoker]

Hello and sorry for the very late reply. I do, but as of now I don't have any available slot.

[@bdeliu3187]

Is there a reason why you have not uploaded in 10 months? Do you still play?

[@LAGPoker]

Hello! I'm still active but had time just to focus on my Italian Channel (XShove) and another business. Will be back on this channel early this year!

[@luckymaggie6594]

Most of us are just rewards or rakeback grinders

[@LAGPoker]

all money is green :)

[@switters8679]

$/hr is a function of BB/100 and are inexorably linked. All of the things that you mentioned that effect bb/100 would also effect $/hr. $/hr is simply bb/100 + rb. I understand and agree with the sentiment, however if you understand what bb/100 is representing and why it is being used it can be useful when teaching or training with others as long as you are aware that it is only a piece of the puzzle (bc different people have different rb deals, thus the common denominator becomes bb/100). It can also get a little murky when you are playing different stake levels, but since databases are a thing it is easy to parse that information out as you did in this video. Literally everything you presented in this video could also be converted into bb/100.

[@LAGPoker]

the whole point of the bb/100 part of the video is: bb/100 are not the best tool to measure your skills at Poker, at least as long as we assume that the most skilled Poker player is the one who makes the most money at the end of the day - considering the same stake and possibilities obviously. In that terms, $/h is more relevant even if as much inaccurate in its measurement. As an example, in my opinion somebody who can fluently play up to 6 tables at 5bb/100 is better at Poker than somebody who cannot play more than 2 tables but keeps 10bb/100. More $/h is always better than less $/h, while more bb/100 is not necessarily better than less bb/100 from an overall profit perspective. That's why I think $/h is a way better measure for success in Poker. If you are running filters on your DB, bb/100 (or better ev bb/100) are obviously what you need to check.

[@fenikstechnologies1173]

I think you're taking him a bit too literally. BB/100 can obviously be a metric of success or not. However, like most stats in general, people put too much stock into it without proper context. Is your 10bb/100 one table or 6 tables (I'm sure you see where I'm going with that) And in the end, we are humans. Therefore the only thing we have to "trade" for money is our time. We can only process information so fast, and we only have so many waking hours to be productive. Therefore, you need to figure out what games, amount of tables, time of day, etc etc.....allows you to make the largest hourly rate. Very simple example, but "crushing" a game nowadays is 5bb+/100. But I'll take 0.5bb/100 @ a $200/400 game all day everyday.

[@philippedemay6026]

hi sir, i would like to pay coaching from you, how i can contact you ? thanks

[@LAGPoker]

Hello and sorry for the late reply. You can contact me via mail at [e-mail]