You are not passionate about poker. You are passionate about the idea of making lots of easy money.

Either you are a complete ****** or roughly 13 years old to ask such a question with a straight face. Hence

This

def. not this.

Also this, because of:

this.

I say you put it all on black. What's the worst that can happen really?

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I think you misunderstanded my comment. By giving it a shot, I meant that OP shouldn't give up on his dream. He shouldn't quit his job and get his 10k to work at the table, but he can definately work towards it imo. The only way to know if ur ready to go pro is experience.

Family and friends are overrated. Buy 10k worth of lottery tickets. Just think if you win it will be far more than grinding out poker and you can just buy a new family.

Look kid, if u dont have any SMART thing to say, dont say ****.. Im not asking to encourage me but at least to be respectfull in your comments.. I respect every opinión but i wont tolerate idiots like yourself..

This is an open forum and not everybody is a SMART ass like some People..

Anyway, see ya kid.. And Thanks for nothing really.

Play 2NL for a living. Just will require a lot of volume. When you are able to crush 2NL then move to blackjack and craps.

If you can't take his criticism, you will never make it in poker. You have to have thick skin and be able to not get rattled easily. If his post (which was actually decent advice) got in your head, you have to work on your mental game before anything.

No. Kid.

Hard to answer, I guess one have to try to find out?
I am actually already making my money online for a living, but I'm thinking to start playing and see where it goes.

It is so tough to write here some sensible advise. ^^

dear OP

- don't give up trust of your family for a poker career
- read here more. You are gonna find a lot of interesting stories.
- proove us all wrong. play the lowest possible limit (I suggest 2 nl online) 50 k hands and post here graph of your profit
- learn to react to criticism completely different
- forget this "passionate" thing until you really put some volume through

I do buy from some people on this forum, that they are passionate about poker. Not from you, because you haven't played enough to know, what poker is.

Since you might not know, Freteloo is a former High Stakes HU pro. He's correct in saying you aren't asking the right questions for someone who has a good shot at making it playing cards for a living. OTOH, running good at the start can make up for a ton of good planning/experience. Do you feel lucky?

Well do ya, punk?

Frankly, there's only one idiot here, and it's not fretelöo. While some of us were a little more... charitable.. in our approaches, the bottom line is your post was really dumb and one we've all seen a hundred times before.

How would you react if some random stranger came up to you on the street and said, "I have $10,000. Do you think I should open a restaurant?"

'Cuz that's what you did right here.

CMAR, I'm not sure your restaurant example is a good one. The obvious answer to that is to ask what cuisine the restaurant would serve and assess your personal and the social need for such a restaurant, and respond accordingly, along with advising them to seek a bank loan.

Based on watching a zillion Gordon Ramsey tv shows, the first question should be, "What the **** do you know about running a restaurant?" followed closely by, "Can you even cook?"

You know, the kind of basic information totally absent from rodmir29's post... (and which he hasn't bothered to elaborate on).

We're looking at another Amy's Bakery in the making...

How old are you anyway? I'm guessing 19?

I think the over/under should be 12 based on his attitude.

It is a great example. Every once in a while, we get someone who went to cooking school, graduated, and was a line cook in a good joint. They come here and ask if they have saved enough and have enough experience to open a in a spot where they've done market research and know that it isn't saturated. Those people we encourage to go it alone. Mostly, we get people who say "all my friends say I make good Chilli, I think I'll open a diner. Hey, are there any rules or do I just get a place and hang up a sign? I have $10K saved, should I quit my job as an accountant?" Those people get some push-back.

Poker is the same. People who have played 30 hours of live 1/2 and ran good decide they'll quit their day job. That or you have a 25NL grinder on a 14K rungood stretch. It is rare to see actual mid-stakes grinders ask these questions. They have graphs. Sometimes they wonder about BR vs. liferoll. If poker were easy enough that anyone with less than 200 hours of lifetime play could make a good living, everyone would be doing it. Poker is hard, and it is mostly harder than your day job. I don't think I could have handled doing it full time for a living. Show me that you made $50 or $75/hour playing a good sample, we'll talk BR and liferoll, and everyone will encourage you to go pro.
People having a dream is fine. They should also expect pushback when their plan to get there is close their eyes and hope. Honestly, tons of 20 and 30-something people have bad ideas about careers.

Anyone thinking about going pro should read jessetakesashot@blogspot.com. Start from the beginning and see how hard it was for a successful mid-stakes live grinder playing in epic/soft games. Doing this at 1/2 NL -- way harder. There's also that guy in LVL forum, but he was HSNL.

^^Sorry, if it wasn't clear I was being facetious.

Folks hate to hear their pipedreams are likely not going to happen! It is not ego stroking! So go ahead and jump off the cliff, OP, maybe you can fly. A small % of folks who try this actually do make it.

Isn't leveling in the BQ forum a bad idea? I mean if we have this discussion in Mid-Stakes, sure it is cute. Here, either you respond honestly to all the guys wanting to go pro, or every single one of these "I won $600 in Atlantic City, should I quit my job" posts would more likely be a level. Since based on how hard they strike back at people saying NO, it seems like they aren't.

I think you(the latest wannagoproguy) should keep your job and play for fun on a budget. If you play live, then see how you do against the friday-sunday crowd. If you can beat that crowd for 1000 hours then come back and tell us all about it. hell, even if you lose you should come back and tell us about it.

repeat that several times. if you have a solid winrate and little to no history of tilt, then maybe you could consider taking a part time job and playing more during the week. Then if you find that you're beating the day shift over a significant sample for decent stakes and profit you won't have a decision to make. you will be a pro by default without even having made the decision to go pro. then you can quit your part time job, play poker with the day shift allowing you normal life/family/girlfriend free time, and join habitat for humanity or some other volunteer program and do some good on the weekends.

then you can come back and bump this thread and tell us all about it.

Now time come that my parents dont give me more money like earlier,jobs around very low salary like 300-400 dollars month and i know i can make at poker much more if i take it serious.Heres my plan:
I would start with 100$ bankroll and play 1.5$ hyper 6 max sng coz i think they easiest to build bankroll and less skill there but if u tight u can do good.Till 200$ then gonna play 3.5$ coz they fishy too,when make 625$ will change to 25nl cash.My primary game will be nl cash i dont like tournaments coz they last long cant focus that much and start tilting if i play long without break.I read Verneer building a bankroll book,watched some videos know from which position which card to open,know pot odds...
Want to ask if this is a good plan or i should start with nl cash am only playing those sng coz i found out they easy to make $$ till 7$ buying.Should i add something or i planned it wrong wanna ask u guys coz never took this serious like now coz its i try this or find some job no third option.Thanks in advance

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