Looking For Some Advice..

[No_Neck 0]

neither.Travel, you guys between college need to take advantage of the one time in your life where you can throw on a backpack and see something. Hitchhike through Central America, or up the western coast, or Europe. Get out and see the world.You will have plenty of time to stay in one place and work or play poker.otherwise, put your whole bankroll on black in roulette and see whether you need to get a job or not for the summer. either way your decisoin will be made for you and you won't have to struggle to decide.As some one who has made alot of bad and good decisions in life, you will regret not doing things that you wanted to more than the things you do try and fail at.

Some of us need money, we can't all get our way paid to fancy art schools by our parents.

[Abbaddabba 0]

I suggest finding a buddy and pooling your resources. That's basically what I did last summer, although I played 3/6 live (yeah, I know, blech) and NL tournaments online. If you do that, 30/hr can support two college kids for a summer. I would suggest a total bankroll of at least 3000 to give it a shot for the summer, 1500 is cutting it kinda close.EDIT: my bad, you said 1/2 limit and i suck at readingRE-EDIT: can you really support yourself at the stakes you're playing?

Uhh, it's a lot more plausible to be making a living wage at 1/2 online than it is at 3/6 live.

[DLizzle 0]

work 40 hours a week and play poker. No, really, I've done it.

[etip 0]

See you at Ameristar this weekend

Whoa, do I know you? Lol. I'll be there, heh.

Uhh, it's a lot more plausible to be making a living wage at 1/2 online than it is at 3/6 live.

Agreed but I also played NL tournaments online. I don't think I could have supported myself by playing 1/2 online OR only 3/6 live.

[slappywhite 0]

you gotta work or step up if you have the bankroll....even if you beat 1/2 limit for 4 or 5 bb an hour its hard to beat the rake...if you could step up to 1/2 nl then it might be worth it to play rather than work but only with adequate roll...at 21 just work..it builds character....not 40 hours though..you got 40 years of that to look forward too..

[Jordan 1]

go see inside man to learn how to do the perfect robbery, and then rb/mm- Jordan

[wellsberry 0]

See you at Ameristar this weekend

I will be there tomorrow morning

[stealfromblind 0]

I'm up around 800$ in the last week playing .5/1 NL on Hollywood Poker (finally made the transistion up a level as my BR allowed it).....this is great advice. thanks jordan. i anticipate having a 1500 roll by the start of the summer, so i should have some padding anyways

if you want to play poker and use that profit as your sole source of income i suggest you take a different approach to bankroll management. if you plan on continuing to play nl i'd say you should up your requirement to 50 buy ins rather than 20-30. although a lot of players do fine with 20 buy ins most of them aren't relying on poker for the bulk of their income. if your serious about this then stay on the safe side and make sure you have 40-50 buy ins for any NL game you sit.

[Garn 0]

i say you get a job where you get tips like being a waiter or something so you always have cash on you. bring a bartender could be cool b/c you don't work many hours but the cash you come home with everynight id decent. then you would atleast have steady bread in your pockets

[krup24 0]

I work full time 40-50 hrs and still log 30 hrs of poker a week so I really don't think its a problem. Get a job play on eves and hardcore on wknds

[TheCinciKid 0]

Honest and sincere answer, not trying to be mean or anything, but get a job. At least a part-time job. You can play some on the side, but you really should have a job. I'm sure you have been a consistent winner since October, but the stakes you're playing are too low to grind out a decent living for the summer. Plus, from what I"ve read on the forums you really need to work on your bankroll management skills. If you continue to play below bankroll standards, you'll eventually go broke no matter how good you are. Besides, if you're gonna be playing for a job, you should probably be 4-tabling 2/4 at a minimum, or maybe .5/1 NL. In either case you should have a bankroll of at least $2k, plus some on the side in case you hit a downswing and need to pay the bills. My advice would be to work 25-30 hours a week and play poker 15-20. You can keep improving your game and your bankroll that way, without having to depend completely on poker to get by.

[MyPlayIsRAB 0]

thats for the reply cincikid. that is my plan. im going to work 4 days a week, maybe fulltime and just play on the side. bankroll management skills are something i lack, but theyve never come to bite me in the *** yet... they will eventually though

[doublemeup 0]

Any takers?TP/MM

[Wingmaster05 0]

this thread needs sarcasm...how about you try and help society somehow? get a f'in job.

[MyPlayIsRAB 0]

this thread needs sarcasm...how about you try and help society somehow? get a f'in job.

eat a ****. the tp/mm just got placed so your sarcasm isnt needed.

[Wingmaster05 0]

Oh im sorry you're right, topics by RAB are only allowed one sarcastic post. What was I thinking?

[Vick12 0]

Oh im sorry you're right, topics by RAB are only allowed one sarcastic post. What was I thinking?

Shame on you!

[jayboogie 0]

You'll most likely regret it once you do try to play full-time for a living. It's not the easiest thing to play your best game when the pressure is on and you really need to win. It's honestly the sickest profession that somebody could actually choose to do for a living, the type of stress you deal with is unreal. Most people think about doing it for a living, because they've only experienced the positive side of variance and feel they can just maintain what they're doing and be ok, the truth is variance will catch up to you at some point and I'm not talking about the occassional 100 big bet downswing, I'm talking about losing 20 sessions in a row, dropping 100 big bets each session a few days in a row. You won't know how good you are until you go through the negative side of variance. It can take a while before you experience it, you can run well for a year, maybe even 2 before you experience it, but at some point, it will happen and nothing can prepare you for it. When I used to run well, I'd think losing 30 big bets was a bad session, now I continually lose 100 big bets before I can even blink. I've been down at least 50 big bets at some point the last 5 or 6 sessions I've played. Let's just say that whatever you think is the running bad can and will get worst than you can imagine.

[MyPlayIsRAB 0]

im not really sure why everyone is still replying, but thanks. i stated twice what my decision was.. loloh this is post 1000 wooooooooo

[etip 0]

When I used to run well, I'd think losing 30 big bets was a bad session, now I continually lose 100 big bets before I can even blink. I've been down at least 50 big bets at some point the last 5 or 6 sessions I've played. Let's just say that whatever you think is the running bad can and will get worst than you can imagine.

Agreed.I have only tracked 100 hours of live NL but I played countless hours of tournaments and cash games online before I started diligently keeping track of my results, and ...Just when it seems like your bad run of cards is over the poker gods will smite you once again - for example, imagine you're doing well for the first time in awhile, you have a significant profit going, and then you are fortunate enough to get all-in as a 90% favorite with one card to come... suddenly BAM! - the only guy at the table who can bust you, who shouldn't have even called in the first place, catches his 4-outer on you and your cold streak continues. This happened to me tonight. It seems like every time you think you are going to go on a rush you get bad beated.My longest losing streak was 3 months, playing 6-10 hrs/day, just one long continuous downslide. It makes me sick to think about it. I am a better player for it, not because I was playing badly and have learned from that, but because I learned first-hand that you really can play almost-flawlessly and still lose for a very very very long time.

[stealfromblind 0]

i recently had a few bad days where i ended up down 11 buy ins for the nl stakes i play. thats probly the worst run of cards i've seen but i buckled down and fought the swing until i was out of it. whats the worst swing some of the nl players on here have been on? this question is more focusted towards conservative players to keep atleast 30 buy ins in their roll.

[Balloon guy 158]

Some of us need money, we can't all get our way paid to fancy art schools by our parents.

Thou knoweth me too well

[iggymcfly 0]

im not really sure why everyone is still replying, but thanks. i stated twice what my decision was.. loloh this is post 1000 wooooooooo

I just read your post, and I feel like replying god damn it!Anyway, my question would be "are there any decent casinos where you live". If there are, then I'd say just play poker. You can make $50-$100/hr 4-tabling 2/4 if you're good, and if so, there's no real reason to get a job other than to make sure that you get out of the house. Even if you're not going to be spending a significant amount of time playing live, I'd stick to a part-time job, maybe 15-20 hours a week.Nothing feels more pointless than receiving a $400 paycheck for 80 hours of work the day after a $600 winning session that took an hour and a half.

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[Abbaddabba 0]

oops? i already responded in this thread