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[QUOTE="Cstarker27, post: 4039519, member: 146406"]
This is what I have come to learn in playing poker for a living. Break down your salary to an hourly rate and see what that would translate into and what type of winning player you would have to be to meet your salary. A $40k/yr job breaks down to just under $21/hr. To achieve $21/hr at the $1/2 games you need to average 10+ BB/hr. And from everything I know and to all that I have spoken to, to do 10BB/hr means that you are among the best at this level. Now you also need to have a large enough sample size played so you have a true idea of what your win rate is. Some say a minimum of 1000hrs played is a large enough sample, I say 5000hrs. Then you know what type of win rate you can expect playing poker. I personally would advise against trying to make a living at $1/2 poker, because it’s not much of a living. You will have down swings where every play and every read you make is the correct play... yet you still lose. It’s just part of the game. You can expect to hit downswings where you can lose up to $3k or more. All the while you are still coming outta pocket to pay the bills. However once you you start to move into $2/5 & $5/10 there is real money to be made. I currently play $2/5 & $5/10 and can attest to being to make a decent living. Between the two stakes I made just under $90k (around $46/hr). That works out to 9BB at a $2/5 level consistently and about 4.5BB at the $5/10 level. I hope this was helpful.
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