Does anyone consistently make $500+ per week playing poker?

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if so, what games and stakes do you play?

and how many hands per week?

do you think its easier to see profit playing cash, stts or mtts?
 
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lol that 50 people have viewed this, and obv none of them are making 500+ p/w and thus havent posted. so its not easy to make 500 a week playing poker i assume
 
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I'd imagine winning 100nl players can fairly consistently make $500pw
 
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i dont play tourneys cause they tike time.16nl cash games and above can provide such winnings but u need a lot of concentration and discipline.
 
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I think that for most people its probably a streaky thing.....if you're a great player it's probably a lot like selling cars....you have your good weeks and your bad weeks but in the end they even out. I've recently been put in the position where playing is the only thing I'm really doing and this week I've made around $500 but next week I'll probably lose a grand........thats why everyone doesn't play poker for a living!!! Also I think you'd have to look at what type of games people are playing.....I don't play ring games so my point of view on things may be totally different from someone who does....I only play SNG's and MTT's so my cashes are more significant as a whole but probably not in comparison to someone who profits consistently every session in a ring game.....I don't know lol....I'm rambling on and on.....signing out now just didn't want to be one of those that viewed and didn't respond!!!
 
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Sure it's possible at 16nl but you'd have to win at 5BB/100 and play over 30K hands every week!
 
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from 50nl+ you should be able to do it.
at sng's, assuming 500 sng's per week (a lot); you'd need $1.00 per sng. Assuming a 15% ROI you'd need to be profitably grinding 500 $7.00 sng's per week to hit $500 dollars minimum.
 
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To OP. considering you can play real money at pokerstars, this may be your slickest edge on getting this br. Normally a 300 person 20-30 dollar buy-in mtt takes 1.5 hours to get into the money at this hour. Shoot for 11pm-3,4am central times. It seemed people always played their loosest then. But don't get me wrong there are a lot of good online card rooms. So starting out before you're in the money That's about 4x your starting chips. If you mostly make it that far often, then let it loose. Take a lot of chances and take people out. Play bad hands, play your top 5-10 hands. Don't let them figure you out. When you're at the FT play extra slow and really tight until you're in the top 3. Good luck!
 
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to the OP,

You really think someone who is making $500 a week consistently was going to show up in under 2 hours?

I have two poker buddies that fall in this category. One is a live semi-pro and never talks about money. The other is online but really not sure still.

Money is a touchy subject to most who really make it. I have never asked him how much he makes but it has to be close to what you are asking if it's not more. I hear about the big win and the big loss but wouldn't think of asking how much in total. He just recently moved up in stakes but not sure if he'll stay there after a $2000 loss the other morning (1kNLHE). So he might go back to 400NLHE. He plays a lot of tourneys as well and is really PO'd right now because of the PokerMaximus pull out from BlackChip.

So in conclusion the person your looking for is busy making that money and MIGHT see your post when they have the time to come in here.

Just my opinion of course

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:congrats: Thats great Bromite, thanks for brightening up my normally boring Thurday! :eek:
 
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if so, what games and stakes do you play?

and how many hands per week?

do you think its easier to see profit playing cash, stts or mtts?

Sure there are people who do it.

People do it and find it easier one game type as opposed to the other. It very player dependent;

One who can earn $500 in SnG's might well struggle to break even in cash. Vice versa etc.

It's basically nearly impossible to answer which one is "easier".
 
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I did this week and even the week before - does that count?
 
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I wish I could do that one mate.
good luck guys
 
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I used to make about $150-$250 a day 7 years back. Now online poker has become different, a lot more crazy all ins, with silly cards, and my tight play keeps getting cracked. If I beat one bad player, then I've got another 100 to go through in a tournie, my odds are slim. I stopped playing fr awhile, put $30 in PP, did a $22 tournie and won $1400. I took most out, left $150 in there, lost it all after getting it up to $280. Have since put not much, but about $150 but had no joy, keep losing to ace rags, e.g AK losing to A7, KK losing to A6, AA losing to AJ etc.

I sometimes wonder if the sites now have their own thing like sharkscope, where they keep track of who wins what. And then give certian players better odds in a game, otherwise I'm sure the same old people would keep on winning like me and my friend used to.

My friend is ranked in the top 10 profit makers on PKR, And I know he is lucky to make about $1000 month, yet he is ranked 9th or 8th I think!
 
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I used to make about $150-$250 a day 7 years back. Now online poker has become different, a lot more crazy all ins, with silly cards, and my tight play keeps getting cracked. If I beat one bad player, then I've got another 100 to go through in a tournie, my odds are slim. I stopped playing fr awhile, put $30 in PP, did a $22 tournie and won $1400. I took most out, left $150 in there, lost it all after getting it up to $280. Have since put not much, but about $150 but had no joy, keep losing to ace rags, e.g AK losing to A7, KK losing to A6, AA losing to AJ etc.

I sometimes wonder if the sites now have their own thing like sharkscope, where they keep track of who wins what. And then give certian players better odds in a game, otherwise I'm sure the same old people would keep on winning like me and my friend used to.

My friend is ranked in the top 10 profit makers on PKR, And I know he is lucky to make about $1000 month, yet he is ranked 9th or 8th I think!


Really?!?! You seriously wonder about the sites favoring certain people huh.

I'm sorry, but do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
 
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lol that 50 people have viewed this, and obv none of them are making 500+ p/w and thus havent posted. so its not easy to make 500 a week playing poker i assume

I can assure you with confidence that there are, or have been, a number of players here who have done so, or are very capable of it when they put in the time. $500/week is not really a lot of money for a solid, winning poker player. Especially with rakeback/VIP/bonuses in play.

My time constraints these days prevent me from playing the volume I used to. I'm down to probably 3-4 hours of 4-6 tabling per week, occasionally more but sometimes I'll go weeks without playing too. I have no trouble withdrawing $1-2K every couple months or so while leaving enough online to continue playing the same stakes. If I were actually putting in the 30K+ hands a month that I did years ago, I have no doubt I could clear $500/week. Problem with that is, I earn way more than that away from the poker table, so it's just not economically and emotionally feasible for me to take more time away from my job and family to apply it to poker. If I were to ever go full-time pro, I'd have to clear $3K/week consistently to even give it a thought. And knowing me, I imagine I'd be sick of poker and divorced if I tried, which is why it's just a supplemental income hobby for me.
 
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