How do you guys do it?

Lately I have been playing well enough or running good enough (which ever way you take it) to make an extra £100 per week while im in a 9-5 job. I have managed to do this by playing $5 SNG's and some tourneys, As you can imagine an extra 100 quid a week really helps out. However enough of me rambling on my question was to you guys in the same situation as me with a 9-5, how much are you winning per week through poker? and what games are you managing to make money through??

Used to be mainly an MTT player so rarely earn a decent amount per week, just hit that big score once in a while. Last week I gave 2NL a go and made around $70 and then hit a $430 win in an MTT so it's been an awesome week for me, $500 profit!

I play when I get the chance....work shced not 9-5....so if I find an hour or two...I like jumping into a ring game...on the weekends I might try a long tournament...$3-$5 buy-in!

Not as much as £100 a week (I wish). However I don't / can't put in the same volume as you Tom - I noticed that your goal for the month was 800 SNG's whilst I'm lucky to get 50-60 and at my current bankroll I want to keep at the $2 level (although thinking of moving up to the $5's shortly).

For me personally, I work about fifty hours a week and still find time to play poker somehow. My personal favorites used to be the $5 DON SNG's at Pokerstars, but since they have gotten rid of them I play $5 SNG's, which still seem to have a lot of fish. I don't get to play many hours, because I am usually exhausted after I get off of work, but at the same time I'm making a decent amount of money each week, maybe around $50. It's a tough life, but hey I love the game so it's worth it.

I usually play a few hours a day - I work weird hours at the moment so I just get them in whenever I'm free. I leave what I win in the account though so I can play more / higher in the future, don't really see the point in withdrawing just a few hundred here and there. STTs are my main game.

I work about 45-50 hours a week, and I play 3-4 hours a week (would play more if I had the chance). I'd say I make about $20-$25 a month playing $5.50 SNG's. So 100 pounds a week would be like a dream to me at this point.

I am currently making nothing, so I would say you're doing fantastic! But why not build up your bankroll and move to higher stakes? Sounds like you are ready for it.

I'm doing 3 to 4 hours an evening and making around£50 for a six-day week but I'm not going to tell you about it because I haven't hit a bad spell yet - and if I tell you, I certainly will :-)

Steve

Pretty much the same for me. (except MTT-SNG, & MTT's mostly in stead of STT-SNG).
I transfer off a bit here & there to friends (instead of them depositing, although I've prob transferred ~$3k) Can't see making a withdrawl anytime soon (not until I'd have more than $10k in online accounts which is quite a ways off atm).

"Work" 50 to 60 hrs/week. Play b/t 50-100 $6.5 9man turbo sng. Made around $250 in Feb. and lost $270 playing 25nl as an experiment since I hadn't played cash games in like 10 years. I tile 12 stt at a time.

All I can say is well done, although I do suggest you leave your winning in your account, go up a level, build up your roll, that way you can take out a bigger slice less often.

Then....

Rinse & Repeat

I grind at the 9-5 M-F job and then grind and the tables a couple of nights a week. Usually making enough to cover my rake...sometimes more...sometimes less!

I think if I were disciplined enough to play under ideal conditions (wife away, kid asleep, not too intoxicated, not to sleepy) I would have better results. The problem is, those times don’t ever exist & I enjoy the game as recreation.

I am working to be profitable by trying to come here and read online articles & some books, but did fall asleep deep in a MTT last week. Woke up in time to still make the FT, but was under-stacked and finished 5th or 6th when I called Mr. Aggressive’s All In with AJ. He flips A8 and hits the snowman on the flop! I still love poker and will be logging on soon!

I remember posting on this thread about a week ago, and I haven't been able to play a hand of poker since! Work has been pretty crazy right now, it's busy season for my job and it requires a lot of time. It sucks that I have no time to play poker it seems, but honestly it's all about balance. I know that when I have a lot of things to get done, poker is the first thing that gets cut, but as soon as I have some free time it is definitely one of my top priorities. Just focus on making sure that your work gets done and you will be great!

CHAMPION!

only about 3 or 4 hours a week but during breaks a lot more. I picked the wrong majors... :-/

Not that I've been very successful yet, but my current strategy is to satellite into some larger buy-in tournaments. If I only have an hour or two, I'll play the sats, and save the tickets for when I have longer to spend, or for scheduled events. Got a ticket I'm gonna use for a $24+2 tonight and satty'd into MiniFTOPS #1 earlier today.

Just grown tired of the grinding; see if I can nab a bigger score... Here's hoping!!!

for me it's been THE $1.10 90 PLAYER sit n go's or the $3.30 90 player knockout.I usually split 10 tourny's between the 2 a week while working a 9-5 and profiting about 40 bucks per week on avarage

Tom, you say "lately" you've been making that much, but what about over 1,000's of sngs? I found that my "lately" means nothing at all. I can think I'm winning at a certain level because everything points to it, my apparent skill compared to the apparent skill of my opponents, apparently having average luck, etc, but then a bad run makes me realize that during the time i was winning and experiencing perceived average luck was in fact, a run of time while experiencing above average luck. My actual winnings over a very long time does not usually keep up with my expectations because bad runs wipe out a good portion of the money earned during good runs. I hope that this is not what will happen to you, but it could, unless your "lately" means thousands (not just hundreds) of sngs.

I have played well over 1000 SNG's!

I used the term "lately" because I have just started a new job a month ago so I have been making my £100 a week since then by playing a couple of hours after work and quite abit of play on the weekends, mainly sundays.