Do I Have Enough Info To Go Pro

[punter11235]

Hello,

I think you are not ready to go pro yet. Realize that you made 1.1k in 6months thats not enough for living.
You didnt play many hands every day and you dont know how well you can handle that. You didnt multitable too and multitabling is hard and you should be sure that you can do it without mindslips here and there.
ALso 2/4 is too low stakes to go pro. If you quit your job you have to be sure that new source if income will be there for a long time. If you choose poker you actually need good skill to have such a confidence, beating 2/4 games is not enough.

Best wishes

[Uglyowl]

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Realize that you made 1.1k in 6months thats not enough for living.

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He's made about $6,444 from ring games also. That is besides the point though.

Definately a troll account. If not I feel bad.

[prana]

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The question is, do I have enough information to make the leap to pro? I've heard people say you need 100,000 hands but with the amount I play that would be two and a half years from now.


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played 20,000+ hands last month not including all the sng's and mtts. You definitely need to be ready to play more hands if 100,000 seems huge.

[mattw]

This is so typical of the zoo. A new guy comes on board, bearing his soul, and everyone wants to berate, belittle, flame. Examine why you guys do this. Is it an ego thing? Great, I like players with egos.

[ds914]

Hey G.I.:

I'd recommend spending one month playing 20 hours a week while logging all of your play into PokerTracker. That'll give you a decent amount of hands to judge your results, get used to using Poker Tracker, and best of all, it will help you determine if you really have the stamina and desire to play full-time (not to mention you don't have to quit your full-time job).

You'll learn a lot from doing this.

Good luck.

[Good Idea]

Thanks for the help everybody. What I gathered around all the sarcasm was that my current win rate is not sustainable and 4 monitors aren't necessary. Guess I'll keep my job.

P.s. What's a troll account?

[MicroBob]

if you thibk you need 4 monitors then you definitely do not have enough info to go pro.

you also don't have enough hands to determine if you're a winning player by the looks of things.


you don't even have any experience multi-tabling yet evidently.

step 1 - determine that you are a winning player while multi-tabling

step 2 - if win-rate while you are multi-tabling is adequate THEN consider going pro.


you should not do these steps in the reverse order (decide you are going pro....THEN try to figure out if yu are a winning player on multi-tables).

[o0mr_bill0o]

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Examine why you guys do this. Is it an ego thing? Great, I like players with egos.

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welcome to the internet.

[smb394]

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This is so typical of the zoo. A new guy comes on board, bearing his soul, and everyone wants to berate, belittle, flame. Examine why you guys do this. Is it an ego thing? Great, I like players with egos.

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I don't think this is the case. Not so much in this thread, but in others, you get OPs asking questions that are asked several times a day and are easily answerable by a search or by more lurking. That is what gets annoying.

[Guthrie]

Wait 2-1/2 years or 100,000 hands, whichever comes first.