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Originally Posted by Jarretman
If you want to play live poker for a living and you're consistently playing 2/5 or lower you're doing it wrong imo.
Having this discussion on live low stakes is almost like a moot point. Of course you shouldn't grind 1/3 for a living... You shouldn't play any sort of LLSNL for a living in my opinion.
If you're good enough to beat live 5/10+ (which in certain areas is super ****ing easy and there's lots of places that spread live 5/10 40+ hours a week) then you can clear 100k in a year. Also, you have to be willing to adjust your schedule around the games if you want to play 30 hours+ of 5/10 in certain areas. If it runs 2 days a week but the games are 15 hours long, maybe you have to play two 15 hour shifts, or 20 hours of 5/10 and 20 hours of 2/5. Additionally, the better you get the more you realize how soft some of these games you previously thought were reg infested actually are.
If you want to play higher than 5/10 live you need to be a decent person who is fun at the table and able to make friends/connections so you get the invites to private games. Or be willing to travel.
this whole notion of HAVING TO CLEAR 100K IS A JOKE
so what if there are plenty of jobs you can make 100k at
who cares ;you don't need 100k to live a comfortable life
if you enjoy poker, enjoy being your own boss, enjoy working when you feel like it and not working when you don't then what's wrong with 60k a year
if your point is use your brains to make more elsewhere fine
but even in LA you can live on 60K and not feel poor.
and as others rightly pointed out, spending that many hours in a casino puts you around some of the lowest forms of scum in the human race.
but so doesn't being a police officer, fireman, doctor, nurse, EMT , bartender etc...
Last edited by snowman; 01-30-2019 at 02:34 PM.