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Message: [QUOTE="MrDaMan, post: 523567, member: 16811"] Been reading through advice and suggestions for those who would like to be professional poker players. What seems to make the most sense is to go for what is natural to your lifestyle according to rational reasoning and ability. While some will argue that poker is not "gambling" , the truth is that luck is a factor and a consideration for a thinking person. A consistantly sucsessful "gambler" dosen't bet what he can't afford. So as a poker player this is a critical factor pertaining to wins or losses. Lifestyle choices can now be made, priority's catagorized and goals set. The idea of beng a "Professional Amatuer" in poker gives one the most flexability. Arrange your life with a job that gives you the same flexability, being ones own boss if you can run your own business is best, so you can take days off and travel to tournaments or juicy cash games. If you can't run your own business then there are jobs out there that allow you the same kind of flexability, taxi driver or real estate agent are two of many kinds of flexable career employments. If/when you win a big tournament, or hit the mother lode of a cash game where you are the shark stuffing yourself on a buffet of bait fish, then maybe you can take some time off your day job and enjoy some luxury. Maybe just build that bankroll for bigger fishing trips, whatever your heart desires. Work can be such a drugery, why would anyone want to make poker a job! Being a "Professional Amatuer" should be much more fun. I know a few people who can live off of 300 bucks a week, and I know a few who can make that at the tables pretty easily. It's a matter of relativity and comfort, how much are you willing to sacrifice and how well you want to live combined with how sucsessful you are at any given venture. I'd love to go "pro" but I'd want to do it at a level where I had a helf a million in reserve. And that's just small change to the pros we see on TV all the time. It's all individual. [/QUOTE]

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