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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Pilgrim, post: 1366548, member: 53779"] People are so interested in living off poker. These are the reasons why: 1) You enjoy playing 2) It looks easy 3) There IS money to be made. There are also people who are interested in living off of selling real estate. These are the reasons why: 1) You enjoy selling 2) It looks easy 3) There IS money to be made. OK, so now... Just to let you know Real Estate agents in Santa Fe, NM are supposed to have at LEAST 2 years of income before they start trying to sell houses full time. Why? Because the market sucks. You'll go months without selling a single house. That million dollar mansion you promised yourself you would sell will take a lot longer than expected. This is a lot like any freelance work (poker included). If you want to make a living playing poker at the ghetto stakes $1/$2NL Live... You have huge ambition but not much thought involved. If you're going to play live, you need to at least have the BR for 150 BI's @ $3/$6NL (my suggestion 600x150=$90,000 to start) If you drop 50 BI's you should really re-think your options and go back to your 9 - 5. Because you've blown through thirty grand by this point. And still have $60K to live off of. You DON'T want to try to play $1/$2NL for a living. That is the minimum stake at all casinos (that I am aware of) so anyone who's watched a shitty poker movie or a couple heads-up hands from the WSOP, has the WRONG idea. I kid you not, you cannot price out a rookie no nothing from playing his A4o, because he doesn't know any better. These idiots don't play the $3/$6 NL. Sure the skill level at $600NL is better online but, I don't see a change much live, somewhat a little bit better skilled players are playing this game (in my area anyway) but they still have a fetish for dominated hands. Easy money here IMO. What you could also do. Is play $10/$20 Limit. If you win one big bet an hour you are making $20/hr and you don't have to risk your entire stack with top 2 pair when some sucker on $3/$6NL called a 4 bet PF with pocket 3's and hit his miracle 3 on the flop. But still you need to bank at least 100 Big Bets to play Limit and you have to be extremely disciplined. This is not a road for the weak. This is not a road for the hobbyist who plays against rec players on the weekends and comes out with profit. This is a road for a true Card Player, not a poker player. All the other variations of poker that are available, YOU NEED TO KNOW. They all help your game. If you kill Omaha on a regular basis. If you can make a profit with 2-7 lowball. If you make profit on 5/7 Card Stud. If you make money playing Razz. Then you're a card player. I don't think you could stomach playing for a living unless you have all the equations in your head, you know your percentages, you're good at picking out hands, you're good on picking up reads, semi-bluffs, and acting tells. We all have good runs, we all have bad runs... You're asking for disaster though if you honestly think you can make a comfortable living playing $1/$2 NL. Regardless, as many people have said and no one listens. You need BR management. Whatever job you work is probably killing you. If you want to attempt to play $1/$2NL for a living my only suggestion is 150 Buy-Ins $30,000 to start. Which is going to take most of us who work 9 - 5 with bills, car payments, mortgage payments/rent, groceries, gas, cigarettes, etc. Too damn long to save up to even think about it and, I honestly think you should just stick to playing on weekends and taking the recreational players money at the table. The players you see on weekdays, are going to be there for the exact same reason as you. You want to play on a table with other sharks? Or do you want to easily take some money off of that rich old retired lady or rich old retired man, or that kid who's trying to look like a pro and pulled off a preflop bluff with 27o? The choice is yours, I thought about it for a long time, had 40BI's @ $1/$3NL which was $12,000, started testing the waters out while still working full time, I'd get off work and go to the casino and made a couple hundred here a couple hundred there, lost a couple hundred here a couple hundred there, then my transmission blew in my car. $5K to replace it with a rebuilt one. Pretty shitty right? I could not handle shit like that so I stopped and pretty much just play on weekends now. Hopefully, you rethink it. And Hopefully other people will stop asking this same question over and over again. It seems like fun, it won't be when you most need it to be profitable. Murphy's Law sir, Murphy's Law -Sean [/QUOTE]

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