Your strategy for $25-$40/hr playing poker???

[toss]

Moving up to 10/20 'n stuff may be scary, but think of the rewards. What if you stayed at Party .5/1 instead of moving up?

[LuckyDevil]

What is casino whoring? Is this different than bonus whoring? Thx.

Get good at poker. Play $20/40.

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Get good at poker. Play $20/40.

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Wow. How insightful. Malmuth might have a book deal for you soon.

Regards,
Capt. Obvious

[Fnord]

Play fewer, better tables and learn to play poker. A run at 3/6 or higher 6 max would probably do wonders for your game. Then move up or add more tables again. I can do those kind of numbers quad tabling 2/4 and 3/6.

[Harv72b]

Full ring tables = ~70 hands/hour/table.

Given 15 hours/week, that would equal 1050 hands/week/table.

To reach your desired goal of $400/week with a WR of 2 BB/100, you would need:

2/4: 5000 hands
3/6: 3333 hands
5/10: 2000 hands

So, basically, you could do it by 5-tabling 2/4, 3-tabling 3/6 (with an extra few minutes/week), or 2-tabling 5/10.

EDIT: that obviously doesn't include rakeback or bonuses. I'm too tired to do that much math...I'm sure you can. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Entity]

Hey droolie,

Just curious. How much of your bankroll do you need to withdraw every month? What is your current bankroll, as well? Have you casino whored at all?

Rob

[droolie]

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Hey droolie,

Just curious. How much of your bankroll do you need to withdraw every month? What is your current bankroll, as well? Have you casino whored at all?

Rob

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I really need to average $400 a week but if I came up a little short of that we'd survive. $200- $300 is the minimum though. I also buy and sell crap on ebay for other income which takes some of the pressure off. If poker and ebay can't keep us alfoat it might be time to bust out the resume and get a 2nd job. I've been fine so far but whoring and the death of the skins has me nervous my current strategy won't work well enough in the future.

I'm not greedy but would love to average $2K a month so I could actually save for vacations and what not. My family needs have been pounding the crap out of my BR all summer and into the fall. For those of you who don't know me I work full-time in a low paying Human Services job. I know many of you guys are thinking "get a better job loser" but that's not really realstic for me right now. I have two kids in day care and a mortgage to pay off. Times are certainly tough as day care is now $360 a week.

I currently have $2800 but have had to W/D about $9K since 4/1/05 with a $2K W/D coming about 2 weeks ago. I've had a very hard time explaining bankroll management to my wife who pays our bills and fighting to keep the $2K bare bones minimum has been a struggle.

I got turned off from Casino whoring after the Integrity BS situation and never went back.

[Adam22]

the concept of you at least making 200-300 a week or whatever is absurd. even as a good player, which you haven't really indicated that you are, you might lose 300 one week and make 2000 the next ( i can't remember what limits you are at but you know what i mean ).

the only good advice here is to not rely on poker for income until you are a very good player, comfortable at playing at a higher limit.

[droolie]

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the concept of you at least making 200-300 a week or whatever is absurd. even as a good player, which you haven't really indicated that you are, you might lose 300 one week and make 2000 the next ( i can't remember what limits you are at but you know what i mean ).

the only good advice here is to not rely on poker for income until you are a very good player, comfortable at playing at a higher limit.

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I want to AVERAGE $400/week or $2K /month. Not make $400 every week. That is not absurd. I understand variance and my kids won't starve if I have a couple months of breakeven play. That being said poker has been a part-time 2nd job for me for almost a year now. I've probably logged over 150,000 hands by now and I'm quite confident in my ability to play limit poker and to recognize a good table regardless of limit. As I said I'm not the best player in the world but I more than hold my own and my understanding of limit hold'em concepts is advanced.

I'm glad you guys are concerned about my skill level but suffice to say I am not. I will not put myself in a game I do not feel I have a + expectation in and I am notoriously nitty when it comes to moving up in limits. As far as my future prospects for moving up limits I certainly expect to make gradual leaps as I continue to work on my game and grow as a player. I hope all of you do as well. Currently I fluctuate between 2/4 and 3/6, with occasional brief forays into 5/10 and 10/20 when I see exceptionally good tables. I have a sginificant sample size at the 2/4 game and have played with enough 2+2 players enough times and discussed those sessions at enough length that I have very little concern about my ability to beat my current limits.

That being said my skill level and what I should do is not what this thread was intended to discuss. What I really was hoping for was opinions on how to best make a reliable earn over the long haul of $25-$40 with the minimum of risk. If your opinion is to become world class and play 100/200 so be it. If it is to 12 table micros while whoring your brains out that's fine too. My current skill level and limits are irrelevant to how you all make your hourly earn.