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Message: [QUOTE="elflake, post: 4532769, member: 327439"] [COLOR=#222533]I played for a living from 2003-09 and at the end of that time I was utterly burnt out on it. It felt like I was on an assembly line, mechanical play with no joy. The first few years were wonderful, and my father lived with me the last several years of his life so being able to make good money sitting in my living room with him was a godsend. I went back to grad school and am now a university professor. I just started back playing poker a few months ago while recovering from knee surgery and am enjoying it as a hobby but have no desire to go back to grinding a living from the tables. I think it was a lot easier to play online for a living back then; you could just play ABC poker and people would hand you money. There was one site I was paid to play at ,( 2 BBs per hour per table, Limit poker $3/6 and $5/10 ), and had a $2000 deposit bonus for a $500 deposit : I could make $50-60 an hour just playing break-even poker. The level of play seems to have improved in general since then, and people seem more aggressive pre-flop, and more willing to go all-in than back then. As far as level to make a living, I started out playing Limit, 6 or 8 tables at a time, and switched to No Limit in 2004, as that was where the action was moving. I played $200 and $400 tables to make what I wanted, which was over a $100,000 a year, my best year being well over that. I also made alotta money by constantly moving money around to take advantage of bonuses. In general, for several reasons, I think it is much harder to play as an American for a living now.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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