What do you think?

They tell me their doing great and making money. How is it possible that everyone is a winner and so many are making a living at playing poker. Yet, here in the Mid West, so many of the old regulars are a mere memory and they are no longer playing? Lets call their bravado a bluff and say the SPM is feeding a great many poker players here in the Mid West. But wait, my totals are in the black as well. Is it the truth or is it also a bluff? Where do the winnings come from? Or are we just moving the money around in an endless circle and in the end the house gets it all. So much for the concept that the only game in the casino that can truly be beaten is poker. Why, because you don't play against the house just other poker players. Maybe in the final analysis once again the house wins and the players are just fooling themselves. Most of us have day jobs. For without those jobs we would be, on the rail, using up all those extra comps we have accumulated to feed ourselves.


Making a living at poker has do be the hardest easy way to make a living. For most of us a job at Mac Donald's would pay more than we can make per hour while turning our posteriors into leather. Waiting for the right hand in the right position, only to have it cracked by a on again off again professional player. Who happens to be on tilt and raised with some rags and got lucky. That explains why he's an on again off again professional.


I can count on one hand the number of players in the Mid West who play as tight as necessary to actually make a living at poker. For most of us we play a recreational game and we fall into two groups. The clueless happy and the Wanabee's, who float from happy to miserable depending on the results we get in today's game. The Wanabee's think they understand the game and feel they have a god given right to win. Because they think they know how to play the game correctly. I must ask, are we really that good at the game, or are we only jammed up and jelly tight? The Wanabee's know how to jam it up in a hot game, but when it comes to being professionally tight, we're more like, jelly tight. So why do we punish ourselves so badly when we lose? If you hate it when you get those pesky Statistical Cleansings, then there are only two alternatives. Join the clueless happy and have no worries, or learn what tight and aggressive really means. For me, I'm going to keep my day job and be happy and miserable as lady luck dictates. I may have a leather posterior of a pro, but my results are more like a roller coaster ride...love those highs and hate those lows.


SPM,...play long and prosper...

realistically i think a part time player who has a high IQ and perhaps more importantly a very high *emotional IQ*, nerves of steel, guts, can handle losses, etc., can easily make 10k a year playing poker.


i think that 10k is the neck of the curve or whatever, you know, and after that it gets harder very very quickly to make more than that.


brad


p.s. make that 12k, or a thousand a month

That sounds about right to me. Thanks for your thoughts.


SPM,...play long and prosper...

How many hours a month does this part-time player play?

exactly. (hey, ive got to have wiggle room, these guys are vicious [img]/images/smile.gif[/img] )


brad

Part-time for the SPM is 1000 plus hours a year. I love poker! And I'm making up for all the years I didn't play poker. So add between 200 and 500 more hours as a buffer.


SPM,...play long and prosper...

gosh that means you make 40k/yr minimum with cards,....gl

You obviously didn't read the orginal post. If I made that much playing cards, I'd give up my day job.


Basement Man...day job in no jeapordy...