Anyone here play poker as their primary source of income?

#36 10-01-2008, 3:46 PM

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Originally Posted by aliengenius

^^^this is the way to go,

! I did just got a real j.o.b. however

, part time dealing blackjack.

out of curiosity AG..what does it take to get a job as a professional dealer?

#37 10-01-2008, 3:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Tygran

out of curiosity AG..what does it take to get a job as a professional dealer?

A 100 to 120 hour course from a state sanctioned/certified school; oh, and a year and a half of waiting.

#38 10-01-2008, 3:59 PM

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Originally Posted by adventurebound

I was married to a Catholic girl once.....ONCE! Unfortunately for me she's the reason I've became a transplant from Arizona to the midwest. Hard to find a hottie locally because around this area the beef ain't the only thing corn fed!

Used to go to a Lutheren church, probably the biggest church in the area but there sure wasn't any supply of hotties there, just a couple (extremely well) cornfed ones. My Jeep can only handle a 500 pound payload........

Do yourself a favor in advance partner...Never take your's for granted, treat her well, Seriously!....Sounds like you have a geat one!

Does she has any sisters named Kathy?

Caution...

my Mrs. is Nebraska bred, and has had several first cousins on the offensive line of the Cornhuskers... She can also out bench-press me...

#39 10-01-2008, 4:40 PM

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Originally Posted by aliengenius

A 100 to 120 hour course from a state sanctioned/certified school; oh, and a year and a half of waiting.

what sort of stuff do they teach you for it to take 100 hours?

#40 10-01-2008, 5:19 PM

I think the average professional poker player makes like $500/hour when they play poker. Top pro players make like $2000+/hour playing hour. Unless you win a really big tournament, it's a up and down ride having poker as your primary source of income.

#41 10-01-2008, 9:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SlowcalaPro

Another key thing to realize is that Im not single, Im married. And since my wife has an excellent career, things like health insurance are taken care of on her end.

Young players who are single or don't have the support I have will have a harder time of it. I'm just spoiled and lucky to be married to a great girl.

Same here, my wife works, a Wildlife Biologist, insur etc,etc is all paid so i play poker. It's nice to think big, but it's really how much you set a goal for $'s. I am happy w/ 1200 a month. & thats hard work, lotta hours. Don't want to be a pro! tough job, to many ups & downs, to old.

#42 11-01-2008, 3:28 PM

there are many things to you can do. but socal had it right you have to have a back up plan. i did some saving and got myself like 4 months worth of rent saved up and the whole time i was working i was putting money aside for my bankroll and playing a little to add to that. Fortunately, for me i live extremely close to Atlantic City. I wanted to see if i could win consistently at first and it wasn't about the money. I play 2-4 limit if i said if i could play that and have five winning sessions i would just work my way up all the limits if i lost one of those i would go back to the next limit. That was three years ago. i am now playing the 20-40 games consistently and winning almost $3000 a week. I do play some tournaments hear and there but you have to play ring games to buy in the tournaments. If you don't you are just losing your money if you don't cash. I personally think there is no such thing as a pro who only plays tournaments. You also should keep perfect records of the sessions. How much you bought in? How much you cashed out? Tips to the dealer and so on...

Give it a shot.

#43 13-01-2008, 6:13 PM

My advice to you: get rich and then play poker, and you'll see how money comes to you, but, if you are broke you'll tend to get poorer.

#44 13-01-2008, 9:38 PM

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Originally Posted by rmcnally

I imagine it would be extraordinarily difficult to become a professional poker player, because one bad session of tilt can leave you completely broke. Poker would be such an unstable job, you should be sure you can win at high limits on a regular basis, and you should also have your emotions under control!

This is an older post and don't know if it was mentioned before, but if you're a "pro" poker player but still stupid enough to tilt away your br then you really deserve it because that's a very amateur mistake.

#45 13-01-2008, 9:46 PM

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Originally Posted by baconn

I think the average professional poker player makes like $500/hour when they play poker. Top pro players make like $2000+/hour playing hour. Unless you win a really big tournament, it's a up and down ride having poker as your primary source of income.

no offense but the average pro does not make that much
the average pro might play 5-10nl and 10-20nl with a 30 to 60K{if they havent gone broke}
so i would say the average pro might only make 100$ at most an hour
ivey is said to make something like 3325$ an hour tho

#46 14-01-2008, 4:52 PM

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Originally Posted by vanpampus

My advice to you: (A) get rich and then (B) play poker, and you'll see how money comes to you, but, if you are broke you'll tend to get poorer.

A is easier than B IMO.

#47 14-01-2008, 11:45 PM

What about if you are retired;
does it make sense to expect to be able to supplement you retirement income with online poker?


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