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Message: [QUOTE="LukeSilver, post: 6876277, member: 59099"] So that is not a mistype I do mean in 2034 not 2024. its been a while since I posted here, work has been stressful abusive and exploitative. My girlfriend keeps pushing me to just give up all work and go full time poker professional. I make no claims to be a great player I am sure many on here if they had my screen names and saw me play would have a lot of criticisms and may even say I am a bad player. However the fact remains I can see I can make more money playing poker then I could realistically hope to make from work not just now but for the next decade if I work my way up a career ladder. A large part of that is that in the UK you do not pay tax on poker winnings, but obviously do from work. If I made £39000 a year in the UK my take home pay would be £29000 this does not include the cost of travel getting ready for work commuting and realistically any meals I might buy whilst at work. To achieve the same result from online poker I would need to make roughly £125 a day. I see job adverts asking for five years experience and a degree offering £25000 a year, which is more then I have ever been paid from a non poker job. to achieve the same result I would need to make approx £90 a day from poker again 25000k works out at 20900 roughly after tax and deductions etc. again not factoring in transport and time traveling. for context my spread sheet works out hourly not exact figures so these are rough figures and I do factor in tax but also holiday pay which I would not get for poker. I should also factor in cost of transport but did not do so because that will obviously be variable depending on whatever the job is. So on the face of it if a magic genie could absolute guarantee that nothing changes in the landscape from where it is today in online poker my girlfriend would be right the rational decision would be to just play poker full time for a living. However with constant governments looking at changing legislation with sites looking at changing games and rake structure and bonuses etc and with the most serious issue the rise of bots, it becomes questionable whether making a living from poker will be viable in the long term future. My fear from playing poker for a full time living is that in a few years or 10 years etc I suddenly find I can no longer do it I am kind of screwed career wise. I dont need to know if online poker is beatable in 2024 I know for a fact it is. what concerns me is will it be beatable in 2034 or 2044? [/QUOTE]

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