When to go pro?

Just wanted to let you all know how my very 1st SnG as a pro went.


PokerStars Tournament #13050538, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.20
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $45.00
Tournament started - 2005/09/26 - 15:56:01 (ET)

Dear PokerKing08,

You finished the tournament in 4th place.
A $5.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

[Slim Pickens]

Oh man. You're eating real Ramen tonight! I suppose now you'll start making it with bottled water and thinking you're better than I am. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[microbet]

No doubt. You're single. You should be chasing girls at least half the time.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

i haven't read the responses yet, but i'm sure a lot of people will say 6 tabling 8 hours a day for 5 days a week (40 hours a week) is insane and I'd have to agree.

imo if you're serious about this, i'd learn to get better at bigger games like the 50's, 100's and maybe even 200's if you're good enough. this way, you can earn far more in less amount of time without burning out.

[Xhad]

$12/hr? Phones? Obsessive tardiness complaints?

Did you work in a call center?

Debt collector.

[RikaKazak]

ummmm...pro doesn't = a winning player at $1 buy ins imo.

Ha

[raptor517]

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I know how rakeback works. it's subtracted from MGR not from what you receive, so if you get rakeback and lets say $100 bonus, you essentially don't get the % on the bonus. example, you get 29% rakeback, you do $100 bonus, your profit $71 overall MORE THAN you would receive with just rakeback.

p.s. I currently don't give rakeback, but I was one of the first back in pp in the day to do it, so I know how it works, thanks.

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lol dont get all offended, if you check back, what i said wasnt wrong. holla

[Xhad]

Ah. Well, at any rate, is that a hard job to get back into? If you're single and the answer is "no," I wouldn't be at all worried about it. I've done the low-pay-no-barrier to entry thing in the past, and I don't think it's such a big deal to quit your job and splash around for awhile IF you know you can go right back to work anytime you want to.

I spent one out of every five months unemployed before I ever took up poker.