Interesting stuff bro thanks!

DAMN! If your telling the truth then you are ballin out of control. Your not gonna find that money in the real world believe me and I even have a degree from a good school. I was going to say poker isn't worth it if you don't enjoy it AND make atleast 35K a year from it but you are on a whole different level making those figures bro. Life could be a lot worse for you.

It's entirely possible that this is the worst statement ever uttered in the history of life, bar none. Do you even have any clue of what the costs of living and retirement are? You think the average 20 year old kid telling people he's a poker "pro" is going to be "set for life" within a decade and change?

Man, people on this site are deluded.

if you make 200k$ a yea average as a pro from 20 till 34 thats 2.8 million$. deduct like 1 million off that, and you are set for life. Not in a way that you can just chill out and ball out the rest of your life, but more in a way that you dont have to worry about money the rest of your life, unless you invest it all in a business or something. If you happen to have a degree too, you can work partime or whatever, and do wahtever you want. I dont get why some pple really want to be set for life so bad (having like 15mill+). I mean its not like your gonna take vacation the rest of your life, that **** gets boring fast.
I mean how many pple have like 1 million $ on theyr bank account at 34 (counting if you had to pay taxes in the US). or 1.8 if not.

he sums it up.
if some of you complain about making 100k/year playing poker then change your life and do something different . If some guys are smart enough making 100k sitting on their asses they should also know that this kind of job doesnt fullfill you . Im a student and cannot work at the moment my income is 0,00k/month at the moment i cannto work because of the studies .
im happy because i have a perspective that makees me happy in life

97% of the ppl in this thread can't even make 50k in profits from poker

Thanks, I appreciate that.

People have different learning styles (which can sometimes lead to big arguments on these forums) but I definitely learn things better in small pieces. I hope that it works well for you.

By the way, in my post I should have said that I am new to LIVE play, not new to online. It's a little different when you don't have all those numbers on the screen, along with a calculator if you want to know your exact pot odds.

Very true. I once had a job where my regular work week was 3 third shifts, a day off, and 2 second shifts. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. So poker isn't a big change for me in that respect. But add in a family situation and it can get even trickier.

My wife goes to work. I work at home. This has some interesting implications in the real world.

I am the one that is always "available". To do things during business hours. To take phone calls. To answer the phone or the door. I realize that somebody has to do it, and my wife and I work things out pretty well. Plus, she has a job (medical transcription) where when she was working at home, she was paid based on her accuracy and volume of work (lines per hour). So she basically faced those same issues, now we have just switched places.

But my wife understands poker, and that I need to put in the time. Lots of other people just won't get it. Try explaining to someone that calls that you don't know when you'll be done, because you don't know if you'll bust out of your MTT in 5 minutes or 5 hours.

Are you a cash player mainly?

By your logic, getting paid to compete against anyone in anything is "the absolute nothing" (never mind that this is a pretty good description of capitalism). So, for example, it must be worthless to be a good athelete and win a college scholarship, or a professional contract.

Pity those poor guys in New Orleans that just wasted their lives getting better at football just to win a game in Florida. I'll be looking for their "I hate being rich and successful" posts on a football forum.

your income involves "playing"

anything else you work

reading comprehension ftw

i didn't say the average 20year old telling people he's a poker pro is going to be set for life, i said that everyone that isn't set for life at 35 starting at 20 did something wrong or made a bad decision. implied is that the 24tabling nl50 20 year old pro's that aren't improving themselves shouldn't be poker pro's

http://svtplay.se/v/1866781/skavlan/...p102975,1,f,-1

at 21:05 Alain de Botton talks (in english) about feeling useless and why people work. Pretty good imo.

i make almost nothing, but this is far more fun than working at a mcdonalds somewhere--and I WOULDNT GIVE IT UP AND QUIT PLAYING FOR ANYONE--no matter how much everyone i know tells me i should be doing something else with my life. i spent most of the last week or 2 at the avi casino in laughlin running my roll up to $2000 from $1700--a $300 gain-- and put in long hours to do it in their poker room, but i am totally happy with that, and its what i want to spend the rest of my life doing.

Haven't read the whole thread, but from personal experience I would guess that most people who decide to pursue poker full time will be quite miserable and stressed.

But you don't have to give up on a proper career to play poker. You can still squeeze in 3 or 4 hours per day of poker and go to work, or more if the work is part time. It doesn't have to be highly paid, since you can supplement it with your poker winnings.

There are lots of occupations that will give you life-satisfaction however academically qualified you are... charity work, working with children, starting your own business, making tv documentaries... And whatever you do, it will very likely open up further opportunities that you don't yet know about.

I'd also say that for 99% of people considering giving up college to play full time... this is a VERY bad idea. Finish studying THEN you can play all the poker you want, or more likely take up a career. Think about where you want to be in 10 years' time. I doubt you really want to be sitting alone in front of a computer screen playing a zero-sum game. (If you do, you're probably better off applying for jobs in derivatives trading.)