The Truth About Low Stakes Poker in 2025 (My Results)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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If you're new to our channel, we are Marc Goone (the guy in the videos) and Gethen Jacobs (the guy who doesn't enjoy being in videos), and we are the co-founders of Hungry Horse Poker. Here's our background:
Marc began playing live poker in 2015 and built his initial bankroll playing $1/2 live. In 2017 he began playing full time in LA, where he quickly climbed stakes to the biggest publicly accessible games ($10/20/40). He began commentating for Live at the Bike and Hustler Casino Live, which allowed him to play as big as $200/400.
Gethen began playing online poker over a decade ago where he worked his way up from $7 Sit 'N Go's to $5k Turbos. During the pandemic he mostly played 1k and 2knl cash games online and won north of 8bb/100. He also began to play some of the largest private games in LA, where he regularly played as big as $400/800.
Gethen and Marc met in 2021, and quickly bonded over a shared approach to the game. In late 2022, they began offering 28 Day Bootcamps to help serious players climb to high stakes just like them, and Hungry Horse was born.
Why do we give away all this sauce for FREE on UA-cam? We want beginner and intermediate players to learn from these videos and start winning NOW, so when they are ready to climb to high stakes they come to Hungry Horse to take the next step.
This series has really taught me how to play J92 flops.
His cherry picked runout doesn't enlighten anything
Look at the sweet baby there…
We’re going to be continuing range in position since villain is under check raising flop
Only two-tone J92 in fact🤣
That's why I play J9.
I’m sad to see this challenge end. Like a favorite movie, I knew it would eventually but hoped always for that few extra minutes (or sessions in this case.)
Can’t wait to see what’s next!!
Bro you 100% proved you can do it. Insane run bro. You’re so good. I made about $65 an hour playing after 1000 hours in 2024. I like to think I’m good myself but I’ve learned a lot from you. Thanks
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1000 hrs is about a third of a small sample.
Not bashing or saying you aren’t crushing the field, but to even infer a win rate off of ~25000 hands is pretty tenuous. Plus breaks…etc, we’re probably looking at 20/22000 hands.
@ I played an average of 20 hours a week which is quite a bit. And this is just my 2024 stats if you could read you would have known that. I made about $57 an hour in 2023 and about $70 an hour in 2022. Before that I wasn’t keeping track bc I was only playing about 300 hours a year or so before that. Not a full time thing at all for me either.
A 1000 hours isnt that small for a years play.@sneakkyz3696
@@sneakkyz3696 so you were in the positive every year yea ok. Not in Vegas!!
Best poker content on UA-cam by a mile, your videos helped me SO much not just in low stakes but at the mid-stakes games (10/25, 25/50) here as well. I played poker full time in 2024 and only managed to break 6 figures profit thanks to you. Congratulations on your newborn, hope 2025 is filled with blessings and run good for you and your growing family.
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Can I ask where you play those stakes live? Thanks
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@@criostasiin his mind lol
Bro, this has to be one of the best videos of the year.
Coming from my 2nd year of full time poker I want to thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication to helping the community.
You are truly blessed and I hope this upcoming year is the best one yet 💪🏽
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How’s it going for you? What stakes you play?
Thank you bro. This was an inspiring series. Happy 2025!
You are without a doubt the best educational poker channel on UA-cam. Keep up the good work
This has been my first year really getting into nlh poker, out of all the tips and tricks and helpful content poker creators have pushed out this past year, I’m very happy to have found this account. Learning ranges, positions, 3b 4b tactics, reading other players, etc, this had been my go to. Even just watching your play style is very Entertaining, informative, and the way you present all the helpful insight really sticks in my brain vs other content. Excited to see what content you bring in 2025!
I was a losing rec player in our local club here in the Philippines. I started watching and studying you 6 months ago and now Im srsly considering quitting my day job cause ive been crushing my local games for 3 months. Thank you so much bro cheers
amazing! would love to have you for a bootcamp soon 🥰🥰
That was good. Enjoyed watching u last few months. Thanks
bless u
Best poker content on YT, period. And good luck as a Pop Marc.
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Defo learned a lot mark. Incorporated the size where they raise off their strong ish and call with their weak ish strategy… love it
Why did UA-cam hide this from me for 12 minutes?!?!
What’s wrong with 64s?
It’s my favorite hand 🥲
omg punish
She was taking a 💩
If legit prob so they could get the monetization in (which is good)
The fact that your content is free is wild. Thank you so much for what you do Bro!! 🙏🙏 Lotta good stuff here!!
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Congratulations on becoming a father, Marc! Loved the poker vlog series. This is the best poker channel on UA-cam and super excited for the Bootcamp!
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I’ve taken in a ton of poker content since getting back into playing in 2017. This is simply the best I’ve seen for education, entertainment and creativity as well! All the things. Thanks so much for making these!!!! I look forward to what’s next!!
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I’m sad the series ended. Loved every video! I hope to see more vlogs and strategy talk in the near future! Thanks Marc
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Really enjoyed this series. Most of all it made me realise - you’re a great content creator and I needed to give you more time. Thank you!
Congrats on the baby and thank you for the content. I love the way you think about the game, you are true competitor. You’ve got yourself a new hungry horse.
Congratulations on your new baby, thanks for posting this series. Hope 2025 is great for you!
Top 3 YT poker channels.
You’re a well known player who was playing in the same casino during the times when the better players were playing, and who became familiar with you. If you were an anonymous nobody who game selected better and switched up venues you could’ve achieved $100/hr.
yeah, i will say the bluffing worked a bit better when everyone assumed i was a tight nit. but was able to adjust and just go massive for value in last few sessions to make yo for it.
I think results like this in the US are only achievable in So CA, TX, and FL. You are not making 90/hr in New England, KC, LV, Va, etc.......
Just an insanely good series -- thanks so much for the spectacular content! Plus, congrats on the little one!
Looking forward to you and Charlie Carrell sitting down :)
Thanks for the content :)
Great, great series. Sorry to see it end. But thank you for doing this; it was way more helpful and informative than the coaching I paid for years ago.
Knowing you from CLP, I absolutely loved this series. All great things come to an end. You seem super excited about poker again though. Can't wait to see what comes next.
When I first started playing the only game the casino had was 4 8 limit. Good times, not long after no limit was introduced. Around that time I started playing tournaments, had success even managed to have a 5 figure win. So to cut a long story short, i used that money to start a family. Congratulations on becoming a father.
I am now at a point in my life where i can start playing poker again. Appreciate this content.
A big thank you Marc for putting this entertaining and educational series together, thoroughly enjoyed and wishing you and your growing family a safe and happy 2025.
happy new year!
I also love your strategy of choosing to deliver value in order to promote your brand. Looking forward to hearing you talk about how this paid off huge for you when you branch out from poker in a couple years.
Thanks for the challenge. Happy New Year Brother!
This is the first time watching your videos than I agree with 100% of what you said. I thank you so much for what you did in the past and for what you will do in the future. Really really thanks. Happy new year and good luck for your 2025!
Marc - thanks for all your work and videos this year. Your content is spectacular! Looking forward to the collab you have coming up with Charlie Carrel (he mentioned something in his most recent video). Congrats on the new baby and Happy New Year!😻😻😻
happy new year!
Made 105k this year from 1/2/24- 11/23/24 ...took last 5 weeks off for thanksgiving/kids bday/xmas/NYE ..and honestly was finally feeling super burnt out! Being a single active dad helped me have a nice routine and almost never played more then 5 times a week. Feeling remotivated and ready to battle! Played 25% 1/3, 45% 2/5, 25% 5/10 and 5% 10/10/20 this year , avg was over 75 a hour.
Bro, appreciate your channel man , only one i can get down with, you da man , HUGE CONGRATS on your new born..best thing ever- i have 2 boys. Be ready for the goodluck toy in a couple years before sessions lol Goodluck everyone on the grind this year and Happy New Year!!
Congrats on the new addition to your family! Love your content! Hope you do another challenge I can follow in 2025.
Marc, thank you for sharing all these vlogs. Learned so much from you. HHP is by far the best poker channel out there. It's not even close.
Wish you and your family all the best and a happy new year.
happy new year!
Loved following this challenge, love your style! Very similar to how I’ve been playing, but without 90% of your vocalized thought process😂
Thanks for sharing! Learning a TON!
Watched your videos and learned a lot about low stakes cash game poker play. As a mostly fast-structure tournament player myself, I am interested in playing more cash games. Unfortunately tho, I live nowhere close to a casino. But yesterday was my birthday and I decided to make the long 5 hour drive both ways to play a low stakes cash game at a casino. I’m ecstatic to say I played 4.25 hours and profited $435 at a $1/3 game! I did it! $100 an hour!! And that was with an insane $9/hand casino rake! I know I wouldn’t be able to keep up that kind of profit over hundreds of hours, but for my first time playing at a casino cash game, I couldn’t have been happier with the result. And I owe a lot of my success to you sir.👍 Thanks for the content!
Great video. Need to re-watch as there is a lot of good content in a short amount of time. Happy New Year and congratulations on the birth of your son.
thank you happy new year!
Congratulations on becoming a father, Marc, and best wishes to you and your family in the coming year!!
Legend. One thing I love about this is that it is saying during any 10 hour session it’s reasonable to make $900 with good play everytime. Easily clearing $100k a year, it’s almost double that. And that’s just 2/5. World class stuff as always
Have a gentle new year!
Really awesome series! The ideas are great and production is slick and fun. Hope you can do some more vlogs like this again sometime, and thanks for making poker harder for everyone lol. Have fun with the dading!
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Awesome wrap up, excited to see what comes next! Congrats on becoming a dad!
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Cool, informative challenge. Congrats on the baby.
great series ser ❤
Ty for making this content it's really motivating to see someone put in the time and effort appreciate it
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This was a huge help for me to understand many concepts in one video. I realized my 3-betting preflop ip is good. My 3-bet oop is awful. My 4 bet is good only against nits. I understand squeezing better. I recognize better my opponents who I can c-bet range. Thank you a lot. Neigh, proceeds to gallop into nearest poker stable.
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As long as you keep doing bomb videos, I'm happy :)
thank you hungry horse
this channel has been a gem
i just miss the voice 😭
she has her own content now it’s not poker if ur a sleuth u may be able to find
Great series! I'm looking forward to the next challenge. "Can I change 100 diapers/hr?"
Little mistake at 14:00. You should change straddle/no straddle. Great summary, thx!
Well, pretty much all we can say is "Thank you for taking hit to your income from playing poker to teach us". Much appreciated.
I love ya man. I think this is a lot like the WPT where they show every hand at the final table
You are the best poker guide dude
Thanks Marc & Hungry Horse for the best low stakes content.
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Amazing video nice way to wrap up the year
A lot of people are putting too much equity in suited cards and non-suited junk aces hoping to get lucky on the flop. They don’t take into account that on a full table, half of the deck is depleted at the flop. They will continue to play like they still have all the outs for their junk draws. If half the people at a table play like this.. it ’s tough to play low stakes.
Really appreciate the ideal vs actual range comparison for identifying flawed recreational devations. Very informative, thank you (smooch)
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Happy new year from Germany ❤
happy new year!
Nice video, bro!
I actually learned a lot and have improved (I think) in online 25 nlh thanks to this series.
Hey congrats on being a first time dad!
fire!! thank you Marc !!
Over what period did you do commentary for live streams at Hustler? I recognized your voice in some, and you were outstanding--I learned a lot. Thank you!
i think it was like 2021-2023 or something
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congratulations on your baby
Cool adjustment to actually 3bet 55 more because there are more squeezes and less 4betting. From what I am seeing, 3betting is happening, and in some cases can be polar, but in general they are not squeezing k5s 100%, but do it sometimes, and they usually show it when they do it, because it is a pretty rare site. I think it is still better to call 55, and let the blinds enter, but if I see squeezes happening all the time, it might change ny mind. Great video as always
Great content,
Great series - In my state we only have 2-100 'spread limit' so it's 1/2 but you can only bet or raise by $100 increments max (you can bet 100 and get raised to 200 and so on)
Love the content! What poker tracking app do u use?
I recently came across your channel, cool content, but I can't concentrate, you're all over the place! 🤣
Will you still do some kind of vlog? Would love to see you keep playing
i’ll be back in a few months most likely, we’ll have another vlog launching soon with tommy a mid stakes pro from hong kong
Hey bro, your content is dope but I have trouble keeping up with a lot of the info as I’m not proficient in poker language. Do you have any recommendations for learning all the terms you use?
just watch a bunch of beginner poker content and come back soon, most of this stuff is for intermediate/advanced players who are already playing quite a bit.
@ thanks for the reply and input man, any specific channels you could direct me to? I don’t want to fill my mind with nonsense from the jump
Looking forward to you and Charlie Carrell sitting down :)
Thanks for the content :)
Can you exploit live more, because a lot of recs don’t have a bankroll..and this is literally all their money ??
Why are you shaking so much when you’re talking? Are you cosplaying a bobble head?
Taking your hourly which is roughly 54bb/100 (~90/hr) and your sample size is ~10k hands. You could have a run of 2200bb (11k) won over that span and/or 8,550bb (42k) over that same span.
If your hourly was 33bb/100 (~55$/hr) you could have a stretch of being up 960bb (~5,000 per 300 hrs ~$20/hr) to 7,000bb over the same amount of hands (~$115/hr over 300 hrs)
Heck, there is a simulation where at 24bb/100 winrate (~$40/hour) you can run up 5,800bb over 300 hours and/or be breaking even after 300 hours.
Of course straddles and bomb pots skew this way out of the equation. What can one infer from 300 hours? Probably not a lot.
This is a very good video on the insights of the current stage of poker at 2/5-5/5.
It depends highly on the player's game and variance. You can't accurately apply a variance model to his play without far mote information than he shared.
Just about any 300 hour stretch of my game is highly representative of thousands of hours averaged. Occasionally there is an exception for 100 hours, but I know it easily when I'm in it. This is with aggressive play and high win rate, so 300 is at the threshold of being statistically relevant, but the point is 300 hours can be quite meaningful.
even half of your winrate in that time is still considerably better than most jobs out there
The PLETHORA of tools to get better ....another one of my favorite descriptors!
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Can someone stop this guy from making so easy to understand poker content ?
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think you got the columns backwards for "Straddle" vs "No Straddle" around 13:35, great content though as always!
Thanks! Yes you are right, study study study 😉 😎🍀
Marc, pointing out that BB should defend a lot more online due to rake gap (31% VPIP against 2.5x CO open). You are right that it's should be in the teens in a 10% rake live cash game, esp against 3 and 4x opens, and obv people do defend too wide, but online population is not defending as wide as you make it seem.
Live poker is great - my biggest issue with it is just the raw hours you need to grind. I can play well for around 5-6 hours but after that I start to fade. Putting in 8 - 10 hour days is difficult.
Yo Marc! Nice results! Just out of curiosity - what was the reason you didnt play more than 900 ish hours back in 2017? You played full time right? I have no idea whats right or wrong regarding to volume (there prolly is no right or wrong), just eager to hear you elaborate on the volume question.
Only his 5-5 results. Assuming he played other higher stakes.
moved up to 5/10 and 10/20, these are only 5/5 results
@@hungryhorsepoker ok gotcha thx
Was hoping for a teaser of the next chapter. Congrats on the hungry pony!! Or colt? Not sure which is the more appropriate term. 😊
sweet baby there
Congratulations on being the best YT Poker content creator in 2024 but, most of all, on becoming a father-cheers to an incredible 2025 brother! 🎉🎉
god your videos are perfect for my adhd
Are you sitting on a trampoline when you're filming? Love the analysis but looks crazy 😂
OMG a new HH-episode.
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Love Marc, but…
Where these low stakes (1/3 in my case) games where ppl open to 3X.
I swear, the average open in these deeper 1/3’s around here are to 12/15, and I feel odd raising to 10 in unopened pits, but I still do. Ppl open to like 13, get a caller and I’m in the SB with KQo, and I guess I’m supposed to make it 65 or something?Thats over 20% of my 100BB stack and when I’m called there is basically no maneuverability very often.
That isn’t to say the strategies here aren’t useful, they are, but preflop just plays so much bigger relative to what I see Marc analyzing.
Still, his thoughts are brilliant and tremendously helpful in many ways.
Thanks!
If it’s a deep 1/3 game, why are you sitting 100BB deep?
@ Deep relative to the games around me***
@@OhioVworld He actually opens to 5 BB in his videos as does the player pool he goes against.
Hm yes, secretary of the chatters council here, you are going to have to make another live series next year, so start brainstorming ideas. Love you, may 2025 bring that one thing you still don't have in your life.
gambling addicts will always feed the games, poker has never changed
only the type of players that have entered the game
Where were you playing 5/5 and what was the max buy in in the game?
Good video, but I don’t agree with the statement, “if players are showing bluffs it means they are unbluffing.”
Is this for tournament or cash games or both?
First of congrats on your angel born ❤!! If you would pick up one city where to live to play full time poker let's say 1/2-2/5, what would be ??
Great video
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CORNGRATS!
Being a Dad is the best thing ever!
If you go into fatherhood with the same work ethic as poker and put in the hours of study time and the hours with your kids, it will be far more fulfilling than poker.
The squeeze comment is actually wrong. You squeeze the top of your range + good blockers/playability that plays well HU. You want to call more of the hands that dominate. So squeezing a hand like K9s, way outperform KT,KJ, as they like to play MW. unless your from SB and dont have a calling range, then u are linear. I think you actually have a very good understanding of live poker, but everything you are explaining is essentially how we arrive at preflop equilirbrium strat. We dont want to raise folds hands like KJs, so we pick K6s for example. Now is there better ways to attack live scenarios, maybe and depends on the pool. But everything you arriving at,is just pseudo GTO. The rest of the video i agree with. In terms of when players have more aggressive cbets we can just click our entire continuing range, and we just shove the shit back to them.
Dork
@@NealJaworski Can Agree with that
As ussual you are a Lord among Men. KING! Wish I could play against you some day. :)
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I'll save you the watch - "I don't know"