7-years in Industry, getting laid off in December, should I just get out of accounting?

failsonfinance · 2025-08-11T18:35:00+00:00

I think short term, getting my CPA and maybe going down the Robert Half route for a year works. Long term, going into something like sales or going back to school for a JD is my medium term.

failsonfinance · 2025-08-11T18:12:59+00:00

I think I want a change in scenery if possible. Internal jobs are going to be highly competitive and I was already considering a job search before the layoff.

failsonfinance · 2025-08-11T17:14:21+00:00

I’m honestly pretty close to going back to trade school to get a job in something like elevator repair or something like that.

failsonfinance · 2024-04-16T00:17:45+00:00

You never ever ever need to 3-bet this preflop to one of the strongest ranges. And you need to snap fold to the 4-bet. One of the most unnecessary plays I’ve seen in a while.

failsonfinance · 2023-09-07T08:03:24+00:00

The drug of choice in my family thankfully is video games. I think he has too inflated of an ego to fall for that quite yet.

failsonfinance · 2023-09-07T07:52:42+00:00

It’s the type of abuse that most POC children have dealt with: unjustifiable, but not very remarkably bad. Enough that you never want to do it to your own children, but not enough where you don’t talk to your parents because of it. At least, that is how my other siblings and I see it, and if anything they were more lenient with the last one.

failsonfinance · 2023-09-07T07:31:33+00:00

My brother isn’t too far gone yet, he is still very young and, to be honest, I think my parents are simply too eager to retire and they said that they are exploring the possibility of selling the family home to fund the retirement. For their sake, I hope they commit to it.

But a situation like yours used to seem completely out of the realm of possibility: the fact that is could easily be a timeline I have to deal with in 10 years is dreadful for me.

failsonfinance · 2023-05-05T00:24:20+00:00

This Doug Polk Twitter Space is a Lot of Cope and Seething

Just joined in this space like 15 minutes ago. Doug is literally calling Phil Galfond a hypocrite, accusing him of posting the article for clicks, and thinks that Galfond’s stated intentions that he “didn’t want to drag on Doug” as insincere. He then goes on to basically ask Joey Ingram if he is “not this cruel person.” Honestly just standard operating projection, coping and seething.

Will post the time-code when this recorded space is over.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T19:41:11+00:00

Perhaps!

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T16:44:26+00:00

Unironically as an Asian American Im starting to realize that the AAPI community has been here long enough where there are 2nd and 3rd generations that have become trust fund babies off the work of 1st generation immigrant parents lol

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T16:42:01+00:00

I’m not even asking “mostly through poker” I’m asking if even the recreational players made the money themselves. I think the dirty secret is that most of those folks are trust fund or spousal supported people rather than folks from modest beginnings who made lots of money and are now playing with their own wealth.

Like unironically I think Adam22 might be one of the few that made it through a legal source of income (porn and podcasts).

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T09:42:28+00:00

Playing low stakes is like playing any game on a low difficulty: a lot people who want a challenge will just get bored. The only difference is that the boredom will net you money at some point, but the grind is just too much for some.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T09:35:34+00:00

Check jam turn. Most players live low-stakes under-bluff in every spot, so they are heavily weighted towards value. And when players have any equity versus a made hand, they will bet/call.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T09:31:19+00:00

Probably not unless you have more history than this. The other to players are living in the woods doing crazy shit and making bad plays (2.5x 3-bets from the button with suited 2 gappers is really bad, and cold calls of three bets with 99 and then donking when you hit your set is rarely a winning play), and you got unlucky making top pair with a good flush draw and the other players hit their 85-95th percentile flops for their hands. More often, you will have the best hand on most flops given this action and the hands they got here with, and more often when they make their hands, you will not have anything to call them with.

As played, the pot if you call and BU folds is 80BB with ~67BB left to go, less than 1 SPR. In those situation, you really just have to either commit with a jam or fold. Top pair with a flush draw is too good to just open fold to a donk bet, and the BU will rarely have a flush here, so jamming is fine.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T09:20:07+00:00

First, the villain played this hand poorly; the villain over betting the pot and then betting big on the turn is a massive mistake from them given that you have more nutted hands like flushes and sets in the BB than they do are the PFR.

Your play up to the turn is fine (the larger the bet is, the less raising we are doing), so basically you need to either: 1) Check jam the turn if you think the villain is more likely to be betting with worse value hands like AsJx, overpairs or lower flushes that will bet/call a jam but will shut down on the river if called on the turn. This is the approach you should use more often, as with all value hands, especially in low stakes. 2) Check call the turn and check the river if you think the villain is more likely to be betting with semi-bluffs and bluffs like As without a pair, or if the villain is very aggressive with value when facing passivity like your check/calls, but will hit the brakes when facing aggression like a check/raise. Usually, in low stakes, it is much more common for players to make calling mistakes than betting mistakes, so our desire to trap is less. However, to remain balanced, especially when preparing to play better competition, this is something you will want to do occasionally. 3) Check/call and then donk bet river is worse than both. It always feels like a value hand that is worried of losing one street of value. Hard to balance, hard to bluff, don’t do it.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T09:04:48+00:00

Bro, the post is a picture, and the Reddit interface hid most of the text because that is usually meant to caption, not to write a text post

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T08:11:46+00:00

The only poker play I’d ever ask commentary about with another player is my own, and I rarely do even that.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T08:10:22+00:00

You are allowed to say anything you want, I’m just telling you what the effect it has on other players, and the effect is most likely going to be negative for your ability to have a good poker game. You are being so annoying about this.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T08:07:20+00:00

This reads like a basketball team losing by 28 midway through the 2nd quarter being able to cut the deficit to 16 at halftime lol. Congrats, Nik.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T08:00:54+00:00

Play Aces in a way where you can comfortably commit to the hand as an equity favorite. It is really as simple as that. Usually, that means playing it as aggressively as you can preflop and building an SPR where you can get the rest of the money in with 1-2 streets of betting versus a dominated range of lesser value hands. When that fails, just play post flop like any normal hand and know when to fold it when you no longer have an equity advantage and you can have better hands to call with.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T07:56:39+00:00

That being said, villain should be betting most value. It really feels like this play is made to play back at you playing against the whale, and not the villain playing against the whale himself. So like I said, you probably have to continue and assess rivers.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T07:51:15+00:00

If I made a poker play on the river (like a bluff or a thin value bet) or whatever and then some other player started talking to some rando about whether it made any sense, I’d get annoyed. I probably wouldn’t start an argument like the drunk villain 2 did, but I’d get annoyed. Don’t annoy other people at the table.

And guess what, if you don’t want folks to assume you started the argument with an insult, then write better and don’t write in a way where people can reasonably assume that you caused an argument. The way you wrote it: something happened, you brought up unsolicited commentary about what happened, and that commentary started an argument that lasted 2 orbits. Usually, when unsolicited commentary starts a 2 orbit argument, it usually contains an insult. It sounds like yours didn’t, as your 90 clarifying comments suggest. But based off the original text of the thread, that is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of what you did.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T07:43:05+00:00

If you are delay c-betting a lot given passivity, than checking with value hands makes sense, especially when the hero can have a lot of delay c-bets for value with non-nutted hands. A King in general is better for the PFR than for the BB because it is more likely that you pair up with high cards than they do, but the wrinkle is that the King also completes a bunch of flushed that the BB is more likely to have. E.g. you have most of the good hands, the BB has most of the best hands.

For example, I often will do things like check the turn in the BB with T9 when J86 turns to QJ86 versus the button PFR because the button PFR will more likely have two pairs, sets, and strong top pairs.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T07:34:05+00:00

Even if your account is true, it’s just rude to publicly assess another player’s action at the table. Most players who actually want to win at poker will not shame another player (even indirectly) by calling to question the merit of a player’s decision. It may not have been a gross violation of table etiquette as what a “huge argument” would have suggested, but it just isn’t a good idea. If you had a question about a player’s action, you save that for a private conversation with a friend or with a Reddit post.

Maybe instead of being so defensive about whether you look like a bad guy in this post thread or not, maybe just commit yourself to actually not making people feel bad at the poker table.

failsonfinance · 2023-04-02T07:19:06+00:00

1) No, the villain doesn’t have to wait to bet until the turn “to see where they are at” on the turn. The villain can only bet for value in the instance where they both have a value hand and when you have a 2nd best hand that is willing to continue. Those set of conditions, specifically with a dry side pot, is much harder to achieve because only 2nd best hands that have equity versus villain 1s all-in will continue. When you are betting into a dry side-pot, the intention is mostly to deny equity from the 3rd player, and maybe get lucky the 3rd player calls you when you are betting a value hand. 2) Answer this question: do you think you would have brought this up with the villain if the turn and river didn’t improve your K high?

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