Preparing to turn Pro

[drewjustdrew]

I think the federal rate is actually $.36 per mile. That is supposed to include the cost of gas. You would only deduct mileage costs and tolls.

As far as hourly rate is concerned, I would not include travel time because it doesn't really matter for tax purposes and obscures your actual performance results. If you are tracking on a spreadsheet, maybe you want to make two columns. One with just gambling time and one with commuting time.

Good luck turning pro. I'm jealous.

I live in Cary. Hi neighbor.

[thomastem]

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Marengo is in Il near Rockford and Trump is the Casino I spoke of. I would be very interested in hearing about any games you know of. Please PM them to me.

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Thomas, you do know that there is poker at Hollywood Casino in Aurora right? This is probably at least an hour closer to you than Gary, IN.

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You mean the casino where they charge you to park, charge you to board the boat, charge you to enter the poker room, charge you for a diet coke and have 3 poker tables in their poker room?

Yeah I know the place and they aren't getting my business.

[theBruiser500]

I'd read the reports if you're a good writer. "The considerations are on the business end. Living in America means that any month or year playing online may cease to be an option." Are you talking about online poker, why woul di stop at any point?

[Mike Haven]

Is this Home Games site any use to you, tt?

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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Is this Home Games site any use to you, tt?

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First listing under people looking for games in IL:


ThomasTEM@aol.com north-west suburbs of Chicago to the Rockford area $3-6 limit or lower

You might want to change the limit info though. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[namknils]

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You mean the casino where they charge you to park, charge you to board the boat, charge you to enter the poker room, charge you for a diet coke and have 3 poker tables in their poker room?

Yeah I know the place and they aren't getting my business.

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Yeah, that's the one, lol. I don't go their either since they started charging for everything, but I just wanted to make sure that you knew it was there so you could weigh the cost of paying for parking/entry/blah blah blah vs. driving the extra time to IN. I'm guessing that you done that.

[thomastem]

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Is this Home Games site any use to you, tt?

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First listing under people looking for games in IL:


ThomasTEM@aol.com north-west suburbs of Chicago to the Rockford area $3-6 limit or lower

You might want to change the limit info though. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Mike,

TY for the thought.

I can't figure out how to edit it. Anyone have experience with Homepoker?

[bogey]

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Another consideration I am trying to make easier is the liquidity of my BR. Having enough in Neteller for when 2-3 sites run a dep. bonus, enough on my site of choice and then enough for live games is going to be a challenge. For those that want to say Dep bonus is too small to consider I say an extra 1500-2000 is a couple vacations to Vegas each year.


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I don't see how this could be any sort of problem. You should easily be able to have enough of a liquid bankroll to have the 3k (or whatever) extra in Neteller to take care of reload bonuses. If its really that much of a challenge I would definitely suggest building up a bigger cushion before taking the plunge. It would be different if you didn't have any real responsibilities, but it sounds like you have a regular job and a wife and kids so i think you should wait until having that extra money in Neteller is insignificant to you.

[Panace50]

can't you have your own home game? what are the laws in Illinois? Here it is legal to have a home game if you do not rake the games, and there are almost certainly ways to circumvent that. Perhaps a home poker tournament would arouse less hassle than a standard poker game.

[GrannyMae]

do you really feel there is enough advantage for you in live play to overcome all these expenses? the only limits i play live are 20-40 and 30-60 (which is much higher than i currently play online). i play that level live because i can beat the players at that level and still do well when factoring in all the little costs.

forget about the expenses of travel etc, if you don't plan on playing fairly high limits the dealer toke alone will kill your hourly compared to online. i can't imagine even starting my car unless i was going to play 10-20 minimum.