...written like a man who sucks at poker. Make sure not to quit to scam/leech/booze professionally.

bump since games are getting tougher and tomorrow makes a year since last bump

so sad he scammed people, i dont think you'll be getting a reply cmonson

What about those people who live elsewhere, where salaries are much lower than in the US, for example in East Europe, South-Latin America or Asia? If you would get for example 6K$ net a year for a 9 hour a day job, and people with a degree earn about 14$ net a year, with smaller companies with less promotional possibilities, and small expectable pensions, would you go for a job instead of online poker? Then even if you make 25K a year of online poker, you are more forward than working for 6K, arent you? I don't know this 100K you were talking about was after or before tax, but it seems so high that there is no much sense playing online poker with that. It is also true that for people from more poor countries it may be better to move to a more rich country to work, and there from scratch maybe get a degree. Althrough translating about 15 foreign words per page from a foreign university book if they speak the language even at advanced level sounds like an extremelly hard work, especially if you even have to work besides university. Even people who learn in their motherlanguage fall out of universities a lot, learning in a foreign language in an university sounds like a very hard work for me.

And what about live poker? Isnt there more money in live poker than in online poker, in a way that it isnt making you socially or mentally bad? At live poker a lot of nits win some money from the 1-2 fish at the table, dont they? Probably not only 10% of the players win there, althrough in Europe there is a much bigger rake at live poker which makes more losing players. What do you think?

Althrough online poker seems to offer less and less money, you can move to cheap countries, where even that less money is a lot. You may travel a lot, volunteer, have a more friends, experiences, or you may stay home spending more time with your family, instead of being in an office for 30 years collecting unnecessarily amount of money for cars, ships and things like that. Online poker may not last forever, its better if you stand on more legs than just relying on it too much.

If you live in a poor country in a poor region and you are talented, its more likely that online poker is for you, than if you live in New York and your parents want to pay for your university and you make 1.5bb/100 at 1cent/2cent.

I'd like to thank OP for these posts. Extremely helpful! I just finished my master degree & I already quit poker a year ago for various reasons after playing it seriously for almost 4 years. As I do not plan to continue with poker, I was glad to come across a post like this.