gambling for a living

[Rudbaeck]

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It isn't possible to play for a living at the $50 games.

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8-tabling you'll get 500 of these in a week without breaking a sweat. So if your ROI is a measly 10% you only make $2500 per week. Ok, I admit it's hard to live on $125k a year, but surely a few near-beggars manage?

[excession]

er I played 500 SnG's when i was first starting out and was ITM 49% of the time - and still two years and many $1000's won later am nowhere near good enough to even use the words 'semi-pro' in a sentence with my name

[Nicok7]

I make a living at the 50s... And it's decent.
...But 200 tourneys is what I do in 5 days, not one year!

Seems like (emphasis on "seems") you can beat the tourneys you've played at, but before you even think about being pro, you should play loads more hour to see if you have the stamina (underrated by mosts!) and if you still win while multitabling. Once you reach around 1k tourney you can start thinking in terms of hourly winrate and number o hours to put per week, and you can post again for more advice if it still looks doable.
Good luck.

I posted the original topic/question above...

I want to clarify that I consider myself a newbie, and my original posting was to get advice on how/what pros are playing? It wasn't my intention to say look at me, I've played 200 games and I'm ready to turn pro. My intended question was, given the facts I listed, what are my next steps?

I've seen people at the 20,30, and 50 sit-n-go tables who have played over 2000 games so I'm guessing there is a way to make money long-term at those games. The way I see it there are usually 7 fish at those tables so it's pretty easy to make it in the money.

I have very little experience with the cash games so I'll continue my sit-n-go tables and experiment with the cash games.

Seriously, thanks to those who have replied with your experience/advice. Good stuff!

[TheMetetron]

I remember thinking I was god's gift to poker too when I first started...

*waiting for somebody to take the ridiculously easy set-up I just offered*

well, if you want to do it for a living, here's my advice:

1) get pokertracker
2) I'd play at least 50,000 or so hands before you think about doing it as a living
3) look at your win rate, and your hourly rate, and figure out how much you'd have to play to pay all of your expenses.

I've made a living for about 5 months 4-6 tabling 2/4 and 3/6, but I'm a college student and don't have a whole lot of expenses. (I can live pretty comfortably for less than $1k a month) but it's a stressful living, if you ask me. I'd much rather have another job, there just aren't any that pay a 19-year old as well as this.

[teddyFBI]

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I remember thinking I was god's gift to poker too when I first started...

*waiting for somebody to take the ridiculously easy set-up I just offered*

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Your witness.

(what do i win?)

[Mr_J]

Some people in this thread have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to sngs.

First of all, buyin by itself means nothing. Before we know if they can earn a decent income, we need to know hours, skill and how many tables they play.

A decent 8tabling $22er will make over 50k a year, working less than 30hrs a week with 10+ weeks off per year.

Don't go telling me you have to play at least 250 $55s a week to make a living. You don't need 6 figs to make a living.

[Hendricks433]

come to the STT Forum. I make enough money to pay the bills playing the $22's. Im in college and dont need much but whatever. People here have no idea what their talking about when it comes to SNG's.