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Originally Posted by Bannnnnnn
why argue with a ******?
You could make thousands of valid points, but people lost in translation don't want to hear wat rationale people have to say
Seeing as his post was in response to mine, I'll assume that you are calling me a ******. While I am more than happy to listen to his response (of which he did make a couple good points), I do challenge you to pick out the part of my logic that makes me a ****** or even to find an untruth in my initial response. If he supports his rationale that you'd have to be an idiot to play poker for 50k/yr, as he did in his later posts, I'm more than willing to listen. However, the initial post simply stated that you'd have to be crazy to play poker for 50k/yr.
In response to the idea that 50k/yr is not enough to live in Boston, I can tell you that is false. I have several friends living quite comfortably in Boston on roughly 50k. In addition, I'd also argue that there are good reason to be a poker pro for 50k/yr or less with a college degree. I'll take myself for example. I graduated from a highly ranked public university in 2007 with a degree in finance. I was making just over $50,000 per year in my first job and I was absolutely miserable. This past February, I had my finances to a point where I had a year's worth of living expenses in the bank and no debt. I was winning over a decent sample in my niche of the poker world and I decided that I wanted to give playing poker "professionally" a shot. After crunching all the numbers, I concluded that I would make roughly $56,000 per year at the tables playing 6 hours per day. After 4 months of playing, I reduced my hours per day because I was starting to burn out. In October, the idea of playing cards was so appalling to me that I played only a few hours over the next 3 months. I've made roughly $25,000 since February. I pay rent, utilities, cable/internet, and everything else one needs to survive, and I still have profit left on that 25k.
While I have recently decided to find an actual job, it has a lot more to do with deciding to move on with my life than it does with having made only 25k in 8 months of actual playing time. I can tell you one thing for sure though; I was a hell of a lot happier playing poker in my underwear for a few hours a day than I was wasting my life away at my desk job even though I was making 2x as much at the job.
As I know it's possible to live in Boston for <50k/yr, it is really up to OP to decide what type of life he wants to lead. After living expenses and general necessities are met, not every decision boils down to money.
Last edited by SayGN; 01-18-2010 at 09:55 PM.