Aces in early position 10/20 Omaha/8

[Buzz]

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WRONG!

[/ QUOTE ]Gnu - My apologies. I stand corrected.

If you are earning what you consider a decent living playing limit-Omaha-8, and it sounds to me like you are, more power to you - and I was wrong.

Let me just make it clear that to me, "earning a decent living" would mean earning enough to support a wife and family in what would probably be considered an upper-middle class life style.

I can see how to do that, and I did it.

But playing poker, I'd have to average winning more than five hundred bucks a day, five days a week, fifty weeks a year. Obviously it's possible to win that much playing poker, but I could not win that much playing limit-Omaha-8 250 days per year in ring games.

I've had big days and big weeks playing limit-Omaha-8, but I can't average five hundred bucks a day for a year, not even in the 6/12 game at the Bike, which Habib and Don think is juicy (and in which I've played and agree is at least sometimes juicy).

But when you consider there are no benefits like medical and dental insurance, paid sick leave, and a retirement package - and you still have to pay federal and state income taxes, even with a guaranteed five hundred bucks a day, two hundred fifty days a year, I think you'd have difficulty sustaining a wife and kids in an upper-middle class lifestyle, at least in my neighborhood (unless you were already wealthy).

I suppose it's all relative.

At any rate, if you are earning what you consider a decent living playing limit Omaha-8, congratulations. My hat is off to you. But it seems to me that if you have the ability to do that well playing limit-Omaha-8, then you also have the ability to earn even more doing something else. That's just my opinion.[ QUOTE ]
I think that's a first for you Buzz!

[/ QUOTE ][img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Thanks for the compliment Gnu, but alas, this is not the first time I've been wrong on this forum, nor probably the last.

Buzz