To all in this forum...

[MAYHEM45]

Man, you need to find a bigger game, these numbers are nowhere near your potential.

[Robbie Robb]

This is a great thread for me. I've talked with Nikki in the past about eventually playing "full-time". What I'm unsure about is doing it by grinding out the cash games or grinding SNGs.

Regardless of the method I choose, I have already set goals that must be reached before I can even begin to seriously think about making this move. First off: bank roll MUST hit $20K. $10K of this would come out and be stashed away in a savings acct for months where earnings would not cover expenses.

The advantage for us would be that someone would always be home with Alex so child care would cease to be an issue.

Another possibility is working part-time and playing part-time. Haven't set down any real numbers for that to work yet though. But with my success rate at the $16SNGs on Stars it really wouldn't take MUCH more elevation to my play. (Not an increase in skill, just an increase in hours/SNGs played). I've got what I consider a pretty decent ITM/ROI rate on these since January at 44/30. Granted the sample thus far is fairly small (only logging about 100/month) but seems pretty consistent month-to-month.

[Ando05]

wow these are great answers, all of u, its kind of good looking at different views of peoples opinions on this matter or topic, i never said i would wanna play poker full time though, i said if i did i might make that much, also i made roughly 15k last year in poker that is y i said about 1 to 2k a month, didnt really think of the varience just gave u the avg so far, but thx a lot for all these great answers, it is teachin me a lot

[lightfungus]

How old are you if you don't mind me asking?

[Zybomb]

lol, I had a feeling there'd be at least one response along this line.

One thing to keep in mind is that I havent been playin a ton this year bc of my 6 day/wk job, although I've gotten in 2-3 live sessions a week on average and a little online play as well.

Truthfully though, I've been running pretty awful this year and riding a rollar coaster the entire time as well. The size of the game I'm playing isn't the issue, if you add up all the session in which I won $ (without subtracting the sessions in which I lost) it's +17.6k, I've just had multiple bad sessions as well, bringing my yearly total to only a 5-6 G's.

In the next few months my goal is to increase my online play to the point where 50% of the poker porfit is online... we'll see how that works out

GG +33k for the year BTW.... is that including the Tourny Cashes you posted about or strictly cash games?

[MAYHEM45]

I forgot to suggest playing more online as well. Play with rakeback and get like 10k hands in a month. Learn 6max and you'll make some crazy money.

My numbers breakdown is 16k cash, 14k tourneys (running like shit lately) and 3k bonus and rakeback.

[Ando05]

soon to be 20

[Invigilator]

This just reminds me why I love this forum. I am a micro stakes player who is slowly building a bankroll.

I love that I can come here with a question and get it taken seriously by high stakes players like the ones that have already posted in this thread.

Ahhhh to be able to make that kind of money (consistently) on the side. (some day).

[Talking Poker]

I wilkl be very, very, interested to see how many hours you end up playing live vs. online once you reach this goal. I have a funny feeling once you do the math, you're going to be playing a LOT less live.

BTW, do you even have a Tilt account with RB uner me? If not, you really should get one. You'd be surprised how much difference 27% RB makes.

[Zybomb]

No... I PMed you about it a while back, but you said that you weren't able to do it for existing accounts anymore (the offer fell thru)

[Talking Poker]

Ah yes, right.... Sounds to me like it's time for a new account.

[Talking Poker]

Agreed.

Remember though, he likes to play live, which causes him to play 90% less hands (that's a very reasonable number, IMO) than he could if he were multitabling online for that same amount of time. Even if we cut that number in HALF, because he'd lose some of his live one tabling edge by making the transition to online, I still think he could EASILY be making 5 times as much if he were to play online instead.

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