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Message: [QUOTE="Dorkus Malorkus, post: 825972, member: 6020"] While I don't doubt you've read everything you've said you have read, I don't think you've taken all of it in. First let me c/p some appropriate blog ramblings: Second, let me address some of the points you've raised. Never 'expect' anything in poker. You will more likely than not be let down. It's okay to be confident, and I don't know how these freerolls pay, but don't 'expect' anything from them - unless they pay a lot of the field it is more likely (no matter how good a player you are) that you will cash in none of them than it is you will cash in one or more. Freedom? As you set out, with your BR and the limits you will be playing (even allowing for a year to casually 'build up' a BR), to make any sort of a decent wage you will have to grind out an unholy number of hours a day. Yes, you can take your own breaks and holidays, but don't let this fool you into some illusion that you are 'free'. When you take a break, you are losing money (assuming you are a winning player). If I want a week in Spain, I can take a week's paid holiday - if you want a week in Spain it will cost you a week's 'wage'. Aside from what I said above, another great thing about having a normal job is that every now and then I can turn up, do a half-assed job (for whatever reason), and still get paid for a day's work. You obviously can't do this with poker - if you don't play you don't get any money, and if you play half-assedly you will leak money at the tables. In that sense, poker gives you much less 'freedom' than a normal job. You wouldn't be as socially 'free' as you think either. Prime time for poker players is prime time for socialising. Most bad players show up on the weekends and in the evenings (and especially on weekend evenings). If your friends want to go out on Saturday night, you either have to forego the juiciest night of poker in the week and most likely most of the following day for 'recovery', or you will have to brush them off. If I want to go out on a Saturday night I can, because I don't work on Sundays (but even if I did the 'half-assed' rule above could well apply). As someone said, variance will bite you in the arse if you continue to think like this. Okay so 5 or 6 times you've profited a small amount. Here's the good news - some days you will go on a huge heater and win three times that. As for the bad news - you will have losing days. Through no fault of your own you could easily leak a fifth of that roll in one day playing the limits you do through no fault of your own. If you're prone to tilt, then it will get worse. As you move up in the future, your $40 losing days will become $400 losing days. Can you handle that? I know it's all relative to your total bankroll if you follow proper BRM, but losing hundreds or thousands of dollars through no fault of your own is soul-crushing, and losing it when the majority of it [I]is[/I] your fault is even worse. I don't mean to put you off. You have a dream and are intent on pursuing it which is good. I stumbled into the job I'm in at the moment purely by chance as I had no idea what I wanted to do with myself, so you are better than me in that respect. All I am saying is to expect to fail, as over 90% of people who try this sort of thing will (and many of that 90% will have had much more experience than your ~10k online hands and half a dozen live sessions). Good luck. Dude you appear to be a cliché generator. A [I]malfunctioning[/I] cliché generator. WPT will no doubt be in touch offering you a commentary position soon. [/QUOTE]

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