Find some job. NP.

I think poker is a good choice, your grammar would rule you out of most normal jobs.

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In short, get a job, play poker on the side. When you find you consistently make more from poker than your job and are cool with that then make ur choice

Until then tho, get a job, 100%, every time

hehe true i learn most english by playing mmorpgs but dont need english in my country to work unless i go abroad Its more that pay is low work conditions 0, u get treat like **** etc.At least at poker you are ur own boss if u lose its bad play or bad luck but noone humuliate u as it happens in every job where u got boss.Going to put those 100$ and try wanna know if this plan is good or its sucks i read a lot beginers thread and its basicly u should play where u got some edge and enojy that game,i enjoy cash hope i make something out of it

Sounds like you're underage. Definitely don't go for poker.

Poker's not really something you can just decide to start playing as a job out of nowhere. You have to play it, discover you can win, then it kind of organically becomes what you do to make money.


Starting out playing 6max hypers is probably an awful idea, and even if you do well at them, switching from them to 25NL cash is also going to be an ugly transition.

If you have $100, start out playing 2NL and see how you do at it for a few thousand hands, then climb up the limits as you go.

If you said you had a $10K roll and 200K hands of good win rate, we could discuss your options as a pro. Since it is either this or a job, you need a job. The most likely outcome for someone who has no experience as a long-term winner who decides to start with just $100 and be a pro is to go broke. You could run hot, but everyone who has played seriously expects you to bust.

For build a BR as a hobby player, it is fine. As a pro, it is a horrible idea.

Just show us the history of your edge in the games you plan to play. We can talk about risk of ruin.

Every person who has posted about going pro in this thread should re-read this over and over. People who become poker players do so because they were winning so much at their hobby that they decided to take a full-time shot.

Seriously, people sound like six year olds - "I wanna be a cowboy when I grow up!" "I wanna be an astronaut!" "I wanna be a firetruck!"

Like this just magically happens.

thx a lot for advices i got some point now.I want to try this becouse i can live with my parents money til my birthday i think then they will push me serious to find job to support myself.I played till now only just as hobby for fun but now wanna try to take serious aproach to game as i saw and read how some people live of it.Dont wanna put more then 100$ coz dont wanna regreat if i lose it stupid or tilt,bad play etc.Want to start slow with it,if am losing a lot to check why seek for advices help becouse of that i joined here I understand what u all want to say so am starting as hobby to see if i can fit and win this as edge in 6 max hypers i read only some basic of push and fold and following it i did it good on 1.5 and 3.5 i think becouse a lot fishy players that go all in with **** cards but at 7 it was very tight and serious games that i dont think i can beat that and dont like much hypers i triend almost every game on pokerstars and played those low hypers only becouse i made profit there i like cash more.But again playing nl2 and nl5 found that i can make more profit faster on those hypers and read a lot how nl2-5-10-25 are same thinking players,style etc.
ps.am 22 but yeah am acting very underage hehehhe

You probably haven't played enough of them to have any idea how good or bad you are at them yet, no offense.

u right about that no offense thx for answering i know am beginer and that to start winning long time needs a lot of hard work like in every thing in life if u want to be succesfull.From monday i got no obligations all day so want to see if i can find myself at this hobby.Will start playing on monday,open some blog here or thread to ask more questions about game post how am doing etc.thx for helping hope i see u in my blog

hello new to 2 plus 2 i love poker and would love to play full time I'm just about to start on cash table not a fan off sng's so i think cash is for me.

I'm starting at the bottom off the poker tree and need some advice

1st question

i can start right away with £250 pounds $380ish or am i best to wait till i have £1000 pounds $1500 ish

if i start with $380 what stake should i be playing and if i have $1500 again what stake should i be playing.

I'm still working i have an ok job but don't want to be doing it for ever.

my aim is to earn $700 a week if it takes 1 year or 10 year i will get there

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thanks guys i do have my 1st big ish mtt this weekend i won a seat for £35 160 seats prize pool is 15k so looking forward to that.

What's your prior experience? $380 is plenty to play 5c/10c (10NL), but if you've never played online before I'd start at 1c/2c (2NL).

First off, lose any hopes of being a pro. Maybe consider it if you find yourself earning a very decent hourly over around 500k hands. And being a poker pro isn't the idyllic lifestyle you think it is.

Your MTT thing sounds outside of your bankroll. I'd sell your seat if possible (unless it's a live MTT, they're mega-soft - but even then, I'd probably sell it).

I know that I am just as new here as you are so my thoughts should be taken with a grain of salt, however, I would suggest:

Playing .01/.02, as mentioned above, to get the hang of things. Perhaps deposit about $100 or so of your potential bankroll so that you are not too far away from .02/.05 if you play well.

Also, I'd try to focus on smaller steps. Going from the point the both of us are at to hoping to earn a reliable income from poker is a really long journey. My long-term goal at the moment is to play well enough to eventually be able to cash out a little bit of money from my bankroll. We'll see where I can go from there (if I get there at all).

i have played online for a few years now so i know the game i have played mtt sng's and mtt all stakes up to $50.

with playing poker full time ya im not banking on it i have played for fun up till now and i want to start playing for a profit if i can bank $50 at the end off the month that would be great i want to make a steady profit and climb up the stakes slowly.
the mtt is a bit off fun at a live casino with sky poker i go to a few every year this is just like a hobby like some one would go fishing online is where i want to start making a small profit

thanks for replying

Dej00,

I've been playing poker for a living for over a decade. This time of the year (wsop) for poker players is like spring for tax preparers. That is, there's a lot of money in Vegas right now, so I'm going to have to leave home for over a month. Problem is my wife is tired of my road trips to California and especially Vegas (I had already planned to leave by now, but it's been pushed back).

Anywho, when I finish this year's wsop, I'm going to put in my resumé at a medical group that contracts surgeons with local hospitals. This would keep me in town year round until online poker is fully regulated in the US. The problem is I'm not sure what I should specialize in - orthopedic surgery, neurological surgery or that pumping thingy in the body... uh, heart. Yeah, cardiac surgery, I think (better yet, I'll just dump that off the list).

Okay, so, orthopedic or neurological surgery it is. In fact, cutting open heads with a Sawzall seems barbaric at worst and nauseating at best, so I'll just ditch that off the list, too. I shall submit my resumé to Orthopedic Surgical Associates upon my return from the wsop.

Some of the guys I play cash games with are surgeons (although they are mostly in Cali), so I shall pick their brains on what I should read and so forth the next time I see them. I'm sure I'll need some training as I have zero medical background, but I'm a quick study and good with my hands (e.g., I can shuffle two stacks of 21 chips and do a blindingly fast butterfly chip trick).

As you might guess, you are very far from the first new poster around here to create a thread like this. So much so that we have a thread dedicated to this subject, which is where I'm moving these posts to now.

To all clueless young wannabe poker players. Reason is the first victim of strong emotions! Read these responses from folks who know! Hope clouds Observation!!

So, which advice do you give old clueless wannabe poker pros?

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I'll live another 10 years in that case