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Poker "Professional". LOL. The word professional implies a career. Gambling all day on a computer is hardly a career and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to grow up.

LOLl lpro1111 he win more money in a year that your family life ...poker is not gambling is like any other job ..and jared have a solid carrer with cosistent winnings over the time ...HE IS A BOT IMAO

LOLl lpro1111 he win more money in a year that your family life ...poker is not gambling is like any other job ..and jared have a solid carrer with cosistent winnings over the time ...HE IS A BOT IMAO

lpro111 u just sound ignorant. A career is defined as......

"a person's progress or general course of action through life or through a phase of life, as in some profession or undertaking"

If he is able to make 1.3 million playing poker then he is doing so professionally. That would make his "profession" poker. He, just like millions of people slave away on a computer to make income. He is some how not "grown up" because he enjoys his work and found a way to become wealthy by outsmarting people in a game of skill? Get real you closed minded jack ass. I respect this kid far more than the average sheep sitting in front of a computer working 50hrs a week and hating life.

could they come up with anything more worthless? wow, if i read some no names blog and fish out the answer to a question i can use my own money to play heads up with said no name and if i beat him i get 30 whole minutes of coaching? why would i want coaching from someone who i just beat? and wtf good is 30 min gonna do? dude has 1.5m in winnings, im sure he has spent over 2m in entry fees just like all the other so called 'pros'

misfits,

Even though I shouldn't even waste my time replying to such an ignorant post, here it goes:

First off, if you want to call me a no name that's fine. A lot of people would disagree with that, but the point is it doesn't matter. If you want coaching from somebody, the quality doesn't depend on how widely they are known, it depends on how well they can play and coach. A lot of the famous poker players are now mediocre players because they stopped working on their game and didn't keep up with the evolving game. You may think I'm a no name, but I have results, and that can't be argued.

That brings me to my next point. While you are right that the media often overstates the "earnings" of MTT players by listing their cashes, that simply isn't the case with SNG players. When it says I have $1.5 million in earnings, it means I have profited $1.5 million. If it listed my earnings as cashes I would have "earnings" of over $100K per day. I played 6 person SNGs professionally for 4 years. During that time I led the world in 6 man SNG profit 3 out of those 4 years. In 2008, I had over double the profit of the 2nd place guy. In late March last year, I started playing HU SNGs. Playing a mix of HU & 6 person SNGs, I led the entire Merge network in sharkscope total profit, with almost double the profit of the 2nd place guy. After one month this year, I am once again leading the entire Merge network in total profit, with over 2x the profit of the 2nd place player. Those are results you can't really argue with.

A good player doesn't always translate to a good coach. However, I used to coach many players and currently still coach a few close friends. My students have always told me what a great coach I am.

If you don't think 30 free minutes of coaching is valuable then you are pretty clueless. 30 free minutes of coaching can change a players' game around and earn them thousands and thousands of dollars. Moreover, many low stakes players don't have the money to pay super expensive coaching rates. This promotion gives them the opportunity to get that coaching for as little as $2.10, considering that they choose which stakes they would like to play me at.

Why would you want coaching from someone you just beat? Again, this comment is ridiculously ignorant. We play one game of high variance poker. In a HU super turbo with 30bb starting stacks, the best player is only likely to emerge victorious about 53-54% of the time. Even if 2 players played each other 500 times, the lesser would emerge victorious a good chunk of the time. In poker there is variance. Over large samples the best players are likely to make the most money, but over small samples, the lesser player can win quite often. Considering that you're posting on a poker magazine website, it's pretty absurd that I even had to explain that to you.

Keep drinking that haterade. This "no name" will keep making $300K+ per year playing a game that people play for a hobby.

-Jared