astros11ss 0 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 the answer is no. it is COMPLETELY different to "play poker to make 1k a month to support yourself/pay bills" than it is to "play poker for fun to try and supplement your income by 1k a month." my advice would be continue playing and studying the game and consider this again when you're at 1/2 and 2/4. also, what does "consistent winner" mean? how many hands? what's your bb/100? what's your bankroll? Link to post Share on other sites
Jordan 1 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 the answer is no. it is COMPLETELY different to "play poker to make 1k a month to support yourself/pay bills" than it is to "play poker for fun to try and supplement your income by 1k a month." my advice would be continue playing and studying the game and consider this again when you're at 1/2 and 2/4. also, what does "consistent winner" mean? how many hands? what's your bb/100? what's your bankroll?i disagree.well kinda. he's right on some things, but not everyone will have the same emotional swings with trying to make $1k a month to pay some bills or w/e this guy is doing.personally, if you aren't making 1k a month playing 100nl you prob aren't playing enough hands, running really bad, or you just aren't very good.And it could of course be a mix of those things. if you seriously aren't sure you can make 1k in a month of playing 100nl you probably won't...but you def. can and should if you are playing good poker, and can emotionally take what poker does to you.- Jordan Link to post Share on other sites
timwakefield 68 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'm kind of shocked that its possible to live on $1,000 a month anywhere in the USA.I would have to *gasp* quit smoking cigars. From what I gather he's in college, so food and bed are paid for. In college your only expenses are alcohol and cigarettes and drugs, and food I suppose (at least if you went to my school....God that cafeteria was gross). Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJon 175 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I will also pay 1,000 for a night with his girl. This should provide him an adequate cushion in case anything goes awry with the poker. Lets do it together. Threesomes are just more fun. SOLD AMERICAN I call anal first.Room for one more? Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,722 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Room for one more?Always. Bring the dildo collection. Link to post Share on other sites
ukwildcat09 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Break it down like this: 30 days in a month. 1000/30 = 33.33. You need to make $33 a day. Seems very reasonable at $100 NL. Play for 4 hours, that's 8.33 an hour. Play for 6 hours that's $5.55. I'd say if you are a decent player, you can do it. It would be boring as **** and your girlfriend would probably break up with you, but it's doable. Link to post Share on other sites
k-10isnogood 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 who can live off 1k a month, it's more about your hourly rate anyway Link to post Share on other sites
suicideking 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Author Share Posted March 25, 2007 Well obviously I'd like to do more than 1K a month. My rent is 600, car 375, insurance 100, cable/internet 100 food 300 g/f car 200, pnones 75, gas 50 electric 50. Total of 1850 give or take. Minus the ~400 I make at my little part time job at the university leaves 1450. My g/f makes about 1200 a month. So in reality I would only need a few hundred to barely make it. But I don't want to rely on her. Plus if I'm not pulling my share she'll eventually want me to quit poker as a means of income.When I say consistent winner, I mean that more often than not, I win. I'm nowhere near as good as some of the guys around here, and my reasoning for asking this question is because I never seriously considered this before. I have always treated poker as a hobby. When I have free time, I play. When I see that I won't have time for a few months stretch, I pull out my bankroll. Its always just been for fun, and I've never really kept track of any stats. But obviously if I were to attempt this I would need to change that. Thanks for most of the input, minus the stupid posts you can't avoid in general. My problem at this level of play is simply that I get bored with it sometimes. Like I said, its always been for fun, so I would be lying if I said I never took all my profits from the lower level NL tables up too high and lost it. But if I were to get serious about it, I think I could manage enough profit to live comfortably. Who knows, maybe eventually when I get better than I am now, I could live better off than I do now? So the general consensus is that yes, I could make 1K a month, at a minimum? Link to post Share on other sites
ff7bigfan 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 If you have rakeback, can focus to put in enough hands, not tilt, and are a winning player, it shouldn't be too bad to get $1k. Link to post Share on other sites
GetSprung 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 I seriously have no clue what this $1k a month "OMG we're gonna die" idea is. I lived in a college town for a year and was able to pay rent, food, car insurance, phone bill, utilities, alcohol, etc. etc. hookers, yadda yadda, and I was NOWHERE near $1k. Maybe in a crazy month where I got lazy and ate out every other night instead of cooking I hit like 800. But c'mon, college kids don't spend like that when they know money is tight. Give me a break. Link to post Share on other sites
A_Bullets_A 0 Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Just play at WPX. All you have to do is play 3 tables of 6-max $100NL for about 12 hours a week. You'll make a little over $1000 a month just with the rakeback. All you have to do is break even for that. Whatever you win is extra.http://www.worldpx.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
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