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Message: [QUOTE="feitr, post: 825351, member: 34106"] I would advise you (and granted you don't want to hear it) to consider switching majors at school, or consider doing further schooling in another field depending on how far through you are. I had a shitty 3rd year at university and it really changed what i had wanted to do with my life, but now i'm considering options i hadn't before to try and see what i'm interested in. That said, if you do hate school and have no interest in any job you are going to get from school then maybe playing poker full time is something you could be doing. I totally understand why you would hate to be a lab tech or something for the rest of your life, because that is all that alot of BSc degrees get you if you aren't interested in grad work or med/law etc (and i would rather shoot myself than be a lab tech). I have to echo the comments about BR management. Perhaps you don't want to hear about it, but you generate habits now and if you make it a habit to play outside of your roll with no regrets what would ever make that change for you? It is easy for most people to replace $50 etc. but if you continue such a habit there is absolutely no future in pro poker for you because over a long term period it isn't a matter of if you go broke but when. However, since you want advice about how to start i'll try to give my opinion. First of all it would be nice to know your living expenses etc and where you will be at in the next few years. If you are able to live with your parents with few expenses then it is alot easier than if you have to be paying rent/insurance etc etc at the same time. You need a large sum behind you to start if you have alot of expenses (like thousands$$s). Honestly, i would advise that you redeposit $50 or whatever you are WILLING to lose and try to grind out micro stakes. Learn to multitable, since at low limits this is the only way you will be able to generate enough $$s and it will be a while before you can play higher stakes. Try to play 8 hours a day at times to see if you can handle it (i for one know that i simply could not ever stare at a computer screen playing cash games for more than a 4hrs a day or so) or even if you actually like it. The fact is that it is going to take you a VERY long time to work up to a situation where you could play pro because you are going to need to build a large BR playing micro stakes. Get a summer job to help out with expenses/potentially fund your BR if that is what you want to do with your money. But more than anything, you are just going to have to play a shitload and see if you actually have the potential to be good enough (and you don't really have to be that good) to make somewhat of a living from poker. It is perfectly reasonable to run at over $20/hr at even NL25 with alot of multitabling because the players are very weak. Last month when i was playing NL25 i was making more at poker (a little over $30/hr) than at my summer job ($21/hr). The point is that you don't actually need to be playing NL400 with a 15k BR to make an ok living at poker so long as you play fairly well and don't have alot of expenses. I hate to say this, but if you aren't beating the micro stake cash games, you may have to realistically accept that you are not cut out for such a lifestyle (but that certainly isn't saying that you shouldn't give it a shot and see if you are). So my advice is to redeposit what you are comfortable losing, play strictly within BR limits, be prepared to have to GRIND YOUR ASS off and realise that if you are going to make this work it is going to take a hell of a long time, learn to multitable, get a summer job to help along. Just be patient and realise that it is going to take a long time at low stakes. [/QUOTE]

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