Hello everyone. I introduce myself briefly: I am Uruguayan (I speak Spanish so my English will have many mistakes). I am an accountant and I became unemployed a few months ago. I have no problem to get a new job, but as I have some savings that allow me to cover my expenses for a year and a half or two I decided to give myself a few months to see if I can generate enough monthly income from Poker to live on it at least for a while. How much I need to generate per month to cover my expenses? Approx USD 1000.

The plan is to give myself about 6 months to try it: the idea is to continue playing Poker without another job if I average at least USD 1000 per month in those 6 months. If I achieve it, I understand it would not mean that I can live on it yet, but it would allow me to try to keep advancing and progressing for a few more months. If I don't achieve that average in the 6 months, I should start trying to get a job.

I am currently shooting NL25. I will level up by having a WR of at least 3bb/100 in at least 100,000 hands.

I am currently playing at GG Poker, regular tables.

Playing and study goals are as follows:

* Play a minimum of 20hs weekly.
* Study a minimum of 5hs per week.

I will come back here when I have a sample of at least 10,000 hands in NL25 to show how the graph is going, if I am achieving the goals and other things.

Thank you very much for joining me in this, see you soon.

Good luck on your journey! Have you considered playing on PokerStars or Bodog? The player base on Bodog is softer than on Stars and GG. The rake on GG can be quite high. Winning $1,000 a month at NL25 is completely achievable, but it's not easy. Most good regs win that or more. Will you play SH or FR? Are you studying in school? For starters, I'd study at least 10 hours.

Thanks!

I am playing at GG because of the rakeback promotion (50%) and because the pool is softer than pokerstars. Once I have played a decent volume of hands I will evaluate rake and rakeback, to see if it is worth it. If not I will switch to PS without any problem. In Uruguay can not play Bodog .

About the study, I am in a Spanish school (Mentopoker). On average I study about 5-6 hours a week plus 3 hours of live classes provided by the school.

Although I am in NL25, I hope in 6 months or less to be writing that I moved up to NL50. We'll see!

If I were you I would focus on playing live rather than online as the games are much softer in live and you can win way more money. It's not impossible to build a pure winrate but due to GG's high rake structure it's likely you will end up being a rakeback grinder. Before rake on GG the average winrate for a regular player is around -3.5bb/100. NL25 is also significantly tougher in my experience than playing live 1/3.

It sounds like you have the motivation to succeed in poker, just don't let the swings get to your head as they can be quite difficult to deal with mentally, especially if you're going to be using poker as a sole source of income.

Good luck

The problem here in Uruguay is that the closest casino where poker is played is 110 km (68 miles) away. And I don't think they play cash every day there.
About the swings, that's partly why I made this blog, I think that sharing the good and bad swings will help me to deal with it better.

Thanks!