gambling for a living

[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!

[Al P]

THere's a 1 table tournament forum that's strictly for sit n gos. There's people who make a living at the 50's (and even the 30's) but like others said, they play more than 200 per week.

If you can achieve 10% ROI you're getting back $5.50 per tournament so you can figure out how many you'd need to play per week to live. However I wouldn't trust your current ROI based on your sample size. Try to play at least 10 per night and in 3 months re-evaluate.

It also sounds like you might be playing 1 table at a time. When you start playing 8 at a time your ROI drops quite a bit but your hourly rate goes way up.

[timprov]

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My intended question was, given the facts I listed, what are my next steps?

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Spend about a week reading the archives of the one-table tournaments forum.