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Message: [QUOTE="absoluthamm, post: 1769964, member: 39314"] From what was given above. I would say don't do it, you aren't serious enough. I'll hit on them one at a time. Without never keeping track of your winning percentages, how do you even know if you are a winning player? Vegas isn't cheap and that $8k(not even really if you have it tied up with other investments) is not going to go very far. If you had a solid $8k, that would only be ~15 buy-ins for your limit. For one thing, that is leaving yourself fairly vulnerable to going busto with a small bad streak. Also, that isn't taking into account rent, food, everyday needs, etc.. For just playing, not living/other investments, and for the limit that you're wanting to play, I would say absolutely no less than 10K, but realistically if you're wanting to live off your winnings, then 20k would give you more of a pad for variance. What would be a better idea would be to just move down a limit. Why will you only play 2/5 and not 1/2? Your bankroll in no way supports 2/5, but it would support 1/2. Here you said something that sparked my eye. You should go on a trip out there for two weeks maybe. See if you can rent a room for half a month and see what happens with that first. If you are successfull, then maybe you can think of it. But KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SESSIONS. You will never know if you are winning or not otherwise. You're wanting to make poker a living, but not willing to put in time for study with it? You are pretty much saying that you are wanting to make money and put nothing into the process of it, which will more than likely not work. In my professional medical field, we have to have a certain number of Continuing Education Units(CEU's) every year in order to stay up to date with what is going on in our field. There are conferences in many industries all the time for similar reasons. If you are wanting to make poker your livelihood, then you should be putting in the Continuing Education, because there is always something you can analyze, study, and calculate away from the tables. With all of this, you definitely are not ready for the move. I would say your first step should be to move down in limits and start tracking your winnings from wherever it is you're playing now and see what you come up with after 6 months. If you are doing great and padding your BR, then take an extended "vacation" to Vegas and see how that treats you. Once again, if that works out successfully, then come back around with some real numbers and ask again. Right now you are just asking for failure IMO. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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