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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 825276, member: 26306"] ok I'm going to be completely honest. It may seem a bit harsh, but believe me I'm trying to help. As a college student myself I can somewhat relate. ok well first of all (and I may be the only one to say this) I don't think there's much of a problem playing above your bankroll at low stakes? Why is that? Because most people can find another $20 or $50 or whatever so what you have online isn't really your entire bankroll. So it's fine if you wanted to take a shot, but just know that your result is the norm, that if you're playing outside your bankroll you'll likely go close to broke. Right here, have you ever considered changing your major? Why did you decide to major in these topics if doing them makes you sick to your stomach? No matter how good you are you should always have a backup plan, and the backup plan should not make you rather blowtorch your nipples off. And no offense, but you haven't exactly proven you're good playing at the low-stakes games. Well if you really want to make money in online poker and don't plan on becoming one of the best in the world and playing the 1knl+ games (that's $5/$10+), you definitely need to learn to multitable. If you can get up to ~15-20 it's actually possible to make a living probably at 25c/50c. It won't be a good living, you'll be just barely making ends meet probably living in a crappy apartment or something, but if you're good you can probably make ~$15/hour there which full time comes out to about 30k/year. But that means you have to first off be good enough to beat the game for a decent win-rate as well as multi-table that many tables for 40 hours a week, and THAT is a hard job. Just make sure you follow the BRM stuff you know, I'd suggest 50+ max buy-ins if you're going to go pro, and 100+ wouldn't hurt. Anything to minimize the emotion when you lose a buy-in to a suckout. First off you need to play some hands. The samples you have for all the levels are nothing. If you don't multi-table that's something you'll need to learn again unless you plan on playing the super high-stakes games. But from what I've seen you have no proof that you have what it takes to win. It's fine that you want to give it a shot, but you better make sure you have a back-up plan. And finally, think about the life of an online pro. Sitting in front of a computer, your concentration can't waver for a second, and one mistake can take another hour of work just to make up. Or you could get a job in front of the computer, spend a good amount of time talking to co-workers, have a lot more social time, less focused the entire time, and probably make the same or more money. But since you've said you've made up your mind, I won't lecture any more on that. Just think about playing poker for 40 hours a week every single week (with maybe 2-3 weeks off). Poker for a living may sound fun, but when you think about what you'd actually be doing with literally half of your waking hours during the week, it's not exactly paradise. Here's what I think you need to do. Get a job. You said you have a class that meets once a week and basically a ton of free time. So get AT LEAST a part time job. Work 20 hours a week, and build some capital. You can still play poker, I'd suggest staying within your bankroll and playing low-stakes online. Play a lot. If you want to play for a living you need to get used to playing A LOT. So you need to learn to multi-table, although first you need to be able to beat the game. I'd start at 5c/10c. If you can confidently beat the level at 1 table, increase to 2, 4, and just put in a ton of hours. On the weekends put in 8-10 hours a day, see how you handle playing for that long. If you're good enough, this will also build your capital you'll need in the future. So you make money from a job, even if it's just minimum wage, you hopefully make money from low-stakes poker, and you spend as little as possible. Next you need to make sure you're good enough. Put in AT LEAST 50k hands at each level and make sure you're beating it for at least a decent winrate before you move up. If you're not you need to get better. Post trouble hands here if you want, study your hands to think about different lines, etc. I'm going to go out on a limb right now and say there's no way you're good enough now to play at a high enough limit to make a living. You'll need to work hard and get better, and during this time you may lose. But know there's no easy path, you have to work for everything in this life, and poker's no exception. Cliff notes: 1. find a major you like and switch 2. get a job this summer 3. learn to multi-table 4. work hard to get better at poker 5. put in a TON of hands this summer 6. Understand there's no easy way, learn to handle tilt and play within your bankroll 7. once you're there you'll probably realize it's not as easy/fun as it's cracked up to be, but if you still want it bad enough you can probably do it if you really work your ass off for the next 2 years. There's not many people who are actually willing to work that hard for something. Only you can answer the question of whether you want it bad enough or not. [/QUOTE]

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