this is something I do consider about if i ever get the opportunity to go pro

What does that matter if your not happy?

Srsly fu man...U can do whatever u want... If u r bored or whatever get some hobbies or even à part time job , lol...

Make sure you have hobbies, a social life, etc.

Just poker all day is meh.

Lol how dare u make à statement like that, My friend and his gf clean toilets, over 40 h Per week coz they need to work 2 saturday and 2 sundays à month so they can live in their 1 Roomer appartment and to have some money over.... And i dont think uve ever done that

I agree with the above.

To OP: If you think that making 6 figures playing poker is ****ty, you don't know what ****ty is.

I lost my job and I've been living in my car for 6 months, getting harassed by the police, having people try to break into my car while I'm inside of it, pissing and ****ting in public places. For 3 months I was unable to work because I tripped out from some prescription meds and was on the verge of killing myself multiple times.

And I'm not even complaining because I know a lot of other people have it way worse.

The bible says that those who are humble shall be lifted up, and those who are prideful will fall. It's true. Humble yourself.

Challenge yourself to volunteer with children, the homeless. Scrub toilets for 10 hours a day. Take a job where you have to wait on other people and take orders. Better to humble yourself, than to be humbled by God. Focus on challenging yourself to grow spiritually rather than just focusing on making $. When you are wealthy it's easy to fall into a routine and get spiritually empty because you feel like you don't need God. Your life feels ****ty because you think it's all about you. It's not, it's about what you do for others.

Sadly, if you are like most people, only when you've experienced hardship such as death of loved ones, life threatening illness, been imprisoned, or experienced complete and total financial ruin will you be able to appreciate what you have. God bless.

exactly. if you want to make 6 figures without grinding all day you need to play midstakes+ and have a very good winrate which hardly anyone has nowadays.

something close to this. i play for a living and always tend to weigh in on these issues because i think that a lot of people do it wrong and that I did it right. some things for the aspiring pros reading this.

please for the love of god play a significant sample size before making any decisions, like 400k hands at least. i considered myself a pro when i had my first 10k month. looking back i realize that was not sustainable but i was living at home at the time and didn't get my own place until i had made ~150k from poker.

if you have an opportunity to play for a month or a few months fulltime as a trial go you should 100% do it first. i understand some people dont have this luxury but if you are in school maybe spend a summer playing fulltime before dropping out, or taking leave of absence from work before quitting. this will help you understand what it is like to play everyday.

please play stakes where you can make an amount that will truly change your life for the better (after taxes and insurance and life expenses). save enough so that you are never in a position where you need to make money for any 6 month stretch. this is true for when you go pro, have 6 months living expenses in addition to your large bankroll. you will thank me later.

and if you have to ask, you aren't ready

as for the OP:

why not get a "fun" job. like if you like to ski go move to a ski mecca and work in a ski shop or as an instructor or whatever and just play like 50 hours a month or something. i dont think youll have trouble getting those type of jobs and they wont pay much but youll probably regain some sanity and also probably want to play a bit more.

i love threads like these.

well for everyone one of you, how many fail?

The guys hating on that xscwx fellow in this thread are looking rather sad and lonely. Are you really that uptight? Lighten up a little, you'll feel better.

this isnt really true. if you can play 12+ tables you can achieve hourly earn upwards of 100bucks as low as 100nl without having a superhero winrate. And 100/hr only takes 1000 hours in a year and less than 3 hours a day certainly doesn't qualify as all day

Count me in this camp.


Never understood the poker life is the worst loneliest etc bs.


Try some blue collar work in the heat of august or the cold of feb I guess idk.

And just when I was really starting to nod my head in respectful agreement, you had to go and post this...

I play mostly B&M and headphones/iPod are a MUST for me. There is a reason for that and it isn't the pleasant people/conversation. Life circumstances pushed me into it but I'd give it up in a minute for a decent job which I can't get at my age in this economy.

You're young and think it's got to be great? It is for a very few and for the rest it's a miserable, mind-numbing grind that I've seen make people go over the cliff, as it were.