You NEED Data to Make It In Poker - Hear an Expert Tell You WHAT Data to Pay Attention to!

This is part 1 of our interview with Justin Saliba. Tune in next week for part 2!
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A graduate from the University of Dayton with a degree in chemical engineering, Justin Saliba had aspirations of playing professional soccer before pivoting to poker. He moved to Vegas in Jan 2019 to start playing more live games cash, which he hated, and after covid hit played online mostly until 2021.
In 2020, Justin got the MTT bug and played full time MTTs before travel aspirations and the draw of bigger tournaments pulled him into the live tournament schedule. Since then he has won 2 online WSOP bracelets, a PokerGO Cup win, and a PokerStars win. Justin's biggest win was $690k in the 60k Triton London.
In addition to his success at the table, Justin is a Poker Coach for PokerCoaching.com where he has been since receiving an internship there in 2017.
Here is what you can expect to hear on this week's show:
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Poker's Encouraging Future
5:02 From Soccer Star to Poker Star
6:42 The Viability of Poker as a Profession
9:02 An Internship at PokerCoaching.com
16:10 Managing a Stable of Poker Coaches
18:13 Justin's Unique Approach to Big Games - Global Frequencies
27:23 How Important is Future Game?
33:26 It's All About Real Life and Not About the Solvers
40:09 Deviations From GTO
46:46 A Subtle Leak Seen Often
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[@PokerCoaching]

Justin is the best! Great pod guys, enjoyed listening to it. Thanks!

[@joeingram1]

More data is better

[@davidholmes892]

Justin made a good point (51:55).Qui Nguyen won the main event playing non-solver way. poker is a game of people so there are plenty of ways to win, not just the solver way.

[@Millnoc]

Also how about the bread and butter of live players - cash games? Tournaments are all well and good but are huge rakefests and mega variance. Live cash in the US seems to be getting smaller as time goes on

[@switters8679]

This is one of the most uninformed and ignorant posts I have seen in a while. And I am not even talking about your opinion on Tournaments... Clearly you do not play enough or see enough data because what you think is happening is the opposite of reality. Holy hell... What a jackass.

[@kevinjohnson4498]

Low stakes live cash are an even larger rakefest. 10% up to $7 plus $2 promo drop plus tips. Less variance for sure though.

[@izzyb_tigergirl]

That's a smart move...you can play poker longer than play a physical sport

[@justingutierrez11]

Great pod, awesome guest. Can’t wait for pt. 2

[@alejandroabad-pablo7813]

I also agree that the poker boom 2.0 is coming. It is honestly the absolute perfect time to make another big poker movie. If the right director comes along , and produces a poker movie that’s real good… the 2.0 poker boom will start. Mark my words jungleman

[@Jacob-ud9fe]

No this is not true just like there will never be another attitude era in wrestling. The peak is past us 100% for sure

[@Millnoc]

Ya thinking this is wishful thinking. Too many “kids” (really all ages) are too good and eat new players up.

[@nsbdbsbsbdbzbz8555]

Absolutley not. To many dorks. Anyone that says that wanst around during the real boom

[@brandonsheils]

Very insightful and great listen

[@andreathomas4579]

You have come so far, Justin. Keep running hot!

[@JohnG57]

Love the insight from Justin!

[@imalucsac54]

Awesome one. Great work gentlemen

[@sardineking123]

great interview, learned a lot, and great shirt for the jungle

[@adrianoalves20]

Great pod with so many important info!

[@bradsamford7682]

keen for part 2!

[@Chocoroth]

Isn't buying players hand historys kind same thing what you were talking about around 37 minute mark?

[@jbpokerwar8962]

Jungle.....When We Gonna Play Heads Up

[@izzyb_tigergirl]

Do you exclusively play tournaments, or do you like cash games as well?

[@DHpoker27]

wheres the 1080p res ? cmon jungle lol

[@330miggs]

15" POKER HAAAAARRRRDDD

[@InnerEngineer999]

Junglemans hair game us nutz lol

[@Pokerfarhang]

Jungle I suggest you get a fresh haircut 🍀

[@izzyb_tigergirl]

Soccer is getting bigger in America...

[@MrCrzyjoker]

Futbol*

[@Justvibes82]

i liked the pro but the guy on left seems like he doesnt know ball at all

[@SuperCaaarl]

No you dont need data to make it in poker. But it can be helpful.

[@zenpool5918]

Nooo! You don't understand!!!! 😢😮 You need to know exactly the frequencies of everybody's actions so you can exploit them perfectly!!!! Otherwise you're not even playing poker

[@playinragz8183]

Jungleman the goof! That guy is cringe and if he is a pro anything that proves anyone can do it.

[@JasonMtl1981]

you need luck to make it

[@1312Mork2]

lmao jungle buying bot comments GG