4.6 • 887 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Welcome back! On today's show Mintz's best friend Michael Rocco joins the show. He has been playing professionally for over a decade now, and has been on a terror the last couple of years with several 6 figure scores. He talks about going from play chips to real money, going broke, his come to Jesus moment with poker, and more. Really sharp guy who has had lots of success, enjoy!
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0:00.0 | What's up, Cracking Ace's listeners? You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Prime |
0:07.2 | members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
0:11.0 | Did you play ACR on Sunday? |
0:13.0 | No. |
0:15.0 | Oh, what'd you do? |
0:18.0 | How much street did you take? |
0:20.0 | On Sunday, I didn't do anything. I watched football. Now I will say I did log in to ACR and I found that I had $10 in tournament dollars. |
0:34.5 | So I played a $6.50 sit and go, |
0:38.5 | and I finished in second. |
0:40.3 | And then I played in a $10 didn't go, $11 didn't go, |
0:46.2 | and I finished first. |
0:47.8 | So now I have $50 in my ACR account. |
0:52.0 | I'm. To be like, uh, be like for Oz Jaka and then think of what fifth place 100k. |
1:00.0 | Yeah I think I'm just a sit and go grinder now one table at a time. I'm going to grind my way up |
1:06.7 | And I'm going to move up in stakes every single time I play one is I just I can't play the same stakes twice. So I did $6.50, then I did $10. I have to play probably |
1:16.9 | 16.50 has to be the next one. And only if I don't cash, I move back down. So it's the Jake Tool method of bank rule management. You go for broke. |
1:30.0 | Yeah, sounds all right. Is that how you did it? I mean, kind of, when I first started. I feel like that's what everybody did. They just deposit $50 at a time until something sticks. |
1:43.4 | I remember I was first like a freshman in college and like going through that the motions of |
1:51.2 | depositing on full tilt and busting my account. |
1:54.8 | I, the run-up that started everything was, I think it was a $50 deposit that turned into like $20 and I sat some cash table that Alan |
2:11.1 | Cunningham was at. |
2:13.6 | And I like doubled up through Alan Cunningham, |
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