[Riveredya]

Like I said I play 1x a week. My last 10 sessions I have won 9/10 times, which is definitely an uptick(I keep relative track of this). I don't write them down, but this is my best guestimate. When I play, I usually only play for 3-4 hours. I get to the casino at 6 and play til 9 or 10. That is about it. I could have won a little more or less, but that is pretty darn close when I factor in the losses. I don't care enough to figure it out exactly, but when I win I usually do an hourly calculation and find that I make b/w 25-50/hr after losses.

When I first started playing my wife was pretty skeptical, but since she doesn't see any withdraws from our accounts and I continue to bring back the bacon, she has become a believer. It is like I said though, I don't think I could do nearly as well if it was to put food on the table. The money doesn't mean much (I could lose every time and it wouldn't make a difference in my life), I just like the competition.

I play tight aggressive poker and find that people still call with weak hands. +EV is all I can say. Even at $2/5NL I find the same thing. People will gamble and I will bet with the best hands. Now I mix it up and show some off stuff so that they don't think I'm a rock, but it doesn't take much when you let people see your bluff hands like 7-9o. Overall I have definitely improved from absolute Donk to above average, but I read quite a bit about poker and have a decent ability to read people.

The whole point was that I am a decent player and based on my limited experience (4 years playing weekly for 3-4 hours a time), I believe it is POSSIBLE to make an above average living playing low stakes poker. It would take discipline and dedication, but there is no reason to believe that if you were a solid player, that you couldn't do it. That said, I wouldn't try unless I had a nest egg to fall back on.