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[QUOTE="dsvw56, post: 825310, member: 40873"]
I like #7 Zach. You're gonna have to work your ass off, and surround yourself with poker if you have serious aspirations of playing professionally. When you come out the other side, poker may not be looking so pretty anymore.

People seriously underestimate all the work that goes in to being able to player poker at a high level. I guarantee in the last 2 years, I've spent well over 2000 hours (that'd be a years worth of working a full time job) either reading books, reading online articles, spending time on forums, watching instructional videos, and analyzing my own play. And that's not even counting the actual time I spent playing. And right now I only play 25NL.

Like Zach said, you have to want it bad. You REALLY have to want it, and you have to want it for the right reasons. Not because you might make a lot of money, or because poker is the "easy" way out. You have to enjoy playing the game, and more importantly, spending time studying it. Otherwise, I doubt you're gonna be able to put as much time and effort in that is necessary to succeed.

Don't look at this post like I'm trying to discourage you, because that is honestly not what I'm trying to do. I think it's great that you have this much of an interest in the game. I just don't want you to go at this unprepared and realize 6 months or a year later that you were way over your head.

And FWIW, I'd suggest you switch to No Limit games. I currently make ~$20/hour playing 25NL
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