Hi Forum. I plan to play regularly again. Now I want to figure out what games I should play. My goal is to generate about $2.000 EV a month asap. Ill start with 100$.

My question to you: What games do you recommend?

As far as I see Spins are the way to go. They are full of fun players and the skill level is still not very high. On the other hand the variance can be brutal and once it rapes you it can take a long time till you can move up. Taking this into account...is it reasonable to mix them with husngs to lower the variance? Or should I play Spins only?

What about Cashgame+MTTs? I know cashgame gets tough once you reach 25NL+.

You see there are advanteges and disadvantages. So I want to ask for your guys opinions.

Thank you!

grinding 6m cash is most consistent in my experience and that wr is possible in 50+

People that start out playing poker with a monetary goal aren't likely to succeed. It's liking the game and wanting to be better that produces the results.

Hi. Im not starting out. I have played poker for years. I didnt say I want summ x to win. I said I want to generate an EV winrate that on avg is $2K a month. I know variance and Im humble enough to accept that it wont work if I see no improvement. Tho I dont think this is going to happen.

How many hours a month do you plan to play? 20 or 200?

Starting with $100 means it’s going to take you ages to build a meaningful bankroll. Start with $10k if your confident in your abilities.

How quickly can you replenish that benjamin if you go busto?

there's a higher chance op can earn $2000 a month from a min wage job working 40 hours a week at least in my country where i'm from.

You want to put yourself in a position where you have the best chances. OP playing online poker with only $100 bankroll isn't giving him the best chance to be financially successful given his goal is to earn $2000 a month.

ops goal should be to beat the odds and win a $109 sat on stars to play in a $1050 mtt and win $40,000 to play live poker with the goal of earning $2000 a month over a period of time playing live poker. chances of this happening are slim.

Try live cash games, unless you are an absolute beast it's probably the easiest way to generate a living wage.

I don’t think that has anything to do with chances. With a 40 hour week, a month has 173.33 work hours. That means if minimum wage is above $11.53/hour, somebody working a 40 hour week makes at least $2000/month.

OP, what does EV mean to you?

imo still a chance the employer won't pay you which has never happened to me but has happened to a friend of mine who worked for the same employer as I did.

a lot higher chance of getting paid by employer each week/month than earning $2000 a month playing poker imo.

$100 buy-in MTTs for top players give a 20% return. Five of those per workday earn a potential $2000 per month.

NLH earns the same at NLH100 as 4-tabling $20 per hour. Five hours per workday.

NLH has virtually complete knowledge in books and softwares and it is the most popular game so there are always games compared to PLO. Only a part of the players actually knows that knowledge well enough, making it a sure way compared to PLO where you have to collect and build most of your strategy yourself and it is not a sure way because of that.

A significant part of MTT-knowledge contains cash strategy and there is a significant overlap.

MTTs benefit of training sites and it is a bit trickier to find all the book and other sources of information one needs and think everything clear there.

How fast one gets to these goals? NLH cash maybe in three years, as there is nothing slowing one down.

Spin & Go? Maybe not a bad idea. I don't know and wouldn't tell if I knew. Are you willing to take the risk and put your head on that block? More fish than in MTTs? Sure income?

Live games offer a path that gets to the monetary goal relatively fast. Just needs enough of them and with a low enough rake or enough high enough MTTs.

Gee, and here everyone thought this was a forum entitled 'beginners questions'.

Also, never gonna happen, OP.

You know that poker gets tough at NL25.
So play easy NL16 at pokerstars for a 10bb/100 winrate.
130000 hands per month - voila.... 2000$ win

divide the number of hours you will play a month buy 2,000. then find a game you are good enough to beat at that rate. that is the only way to do this crazy proposition.

no one but yourself can figure out what hourly rate you can make as it is solely determined by your current ability and the ease of the games you play in.

and most people overrate both of those.

Hey guys. Thanks for the replies. I think Im gonna go with Spin&Gos. Its my best game. Only the variance sucks a little. I find live cashgames attractive too and I think ill give it a shot once I have 30bi or so.

I dont think its that hard to make 2k a month on average. You just need a juicy game and then grind a lot. With rakeback thats probably possible on 15$ spins.

Gl at your grind!

Sorry dude - but you will never make 2k a month. Your Sentence above shows you have no idea what it needs to make this money. Its NOT easy at all!!!

Well do it then.

...and report back on your progress

Is it likely that he’s going to make that money easily? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean his statement disqualified him. I know several people who posted things like that early on in their poker career and were able to follow through. One guy who was ridiculed for his “alrighty, I am going to turn pro now and crush” posting made it to high stakes within a couple years and won the WSOP ME and another guy who started a blog about traveling the world and pay for it by winning a lot of money at poker is now considered one of the most successful online and live players of all time.

If anything, being young and not knowing too much about life or about how hard poker can be, might give you a totally different outlook and approach. Doesn’t mean you’re going to be successful, but also doesn’t mean you’re going to fail.

But probably 99% fail

where do you live? dubai or smth . Where on earth, there is a min wage that is 2000$

edit: lol iam reading now that you live in somebodys mums house-in that case i understand 2000$/month is possible.

Let me guess, you live in Alabama or Mississippi?

A full time (40 hours/week) work month has 173 hours. So the answer to your question is: everywhere that has a minimum wage >$11.50. There are a couple US states that are already above that and others are going to follow in the not too distant future.

I live in europe-dno about americas

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If you’re flipping burgers at McDonalds in France or Germany full-time, you get pretty close to $2k/month just in salary plus decent benefits including health care and ~4 weeks of paid vacation days.

I don’t think there’s anywhere in the Western world where $2k/month is considered a lot of money.