Earning a living playing poker 1 year later.

[MaxPower]

Good to see you are doing well.

How are the critters?

[thomastem]

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Good to see you are doing well.

How are the critters?

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My chicken is still missing but my possum, goat, and sheep are doing quite well. My buzzard had become a grandpa and my pelican was stold by an aristocrat named Steven Punk.

[Jimbo]

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The point here is that all of the articles that I have read seem to state that it is easier if you are single.

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I believe you missed the part of the story where they were married before they began playing poker for a living, then became single.

Jimbo

[thomastem]

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The point here is that all of the articles that I have read seem to state that it is easier if you are single.

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I believe you missed the part of the story where they were married before they began playing poker for a living, then became single.

Jimbo

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Poker has never come close to causing marital problems for me. My guess would be that the wife really did not have a clear understanding of what the life change would mean before agreeing to it or the wife was not consulted at all.

This looks like a communication problem to me. I would venture to guess that business owners that did not properly communicate the investment in time that it takes to run a business suffer similarly at this issue is not specific to poker players.

Had my wife not enthusiastically agreed to my time investment or if she were to communicate at any time that it was putting a strain on our marriage then I would make another career change.

My personal opinion (I am not a doctor but been married for 15 years and gone through my share of issues) is that communication is the root of the problem and poker or job the scape goat.

[addickt]

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Lol. Not close for me. My youngest goes to daycare and the rest are in school. Except when I take a vacation I typically work a minimum of 60 hours a week.

I do get to take the after school time with the kids that I did not have before but after dinner it is prime time and back to work. During the summer my 15 year old babysits while I am in the "office" working.

I do get the benefit of skipping shaving some mornings though.



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1 thing that must be great is you taking care of the kids during the day. This way you don't have to pay for a baby sitter and can even get all your chores you used to do on the weekends/nighttime after work done during the day so you've got more free time. That's the one thing I've found out since I started this 6 months ago. I make a lot in just 2 hours of play and an hour of doing stock market things in the morning and I have all the free time in the world.

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If you work 60/hrs a week and you made about the same as you did at your job you are not coming out ahead

[addickt]

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The point here is that all of the articles that I have read seem to state that it is easier if you are single.

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I believe you missed the part of the story where they were married before they began playing poker for a living, then became single.

Jimbo

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BINGO!!! I did that.. She calls me a loser but wants me to pay Child Support in the 225k range..

[MicroBob]

Some of what you say might be true for some folks...but actually I just think that poker takes up so much time for some guys it becomes too much of an obsession.
Throw in some losses in there and they can't handle the stress.

A little bit of stress and not paying enough attention to your s.o. will put quite the strain on a relationship.

I've read posts on here about 'my girl says I'm not spending enough time with her and that all I do is play poker'.
The number of people that have this kind of problem is likely WAY too high.


thankfully it's not a problem for me as I actually prefer time spent with my GF to playing poker.
I'm never blowing her off to play in a tournament or anything like that. But it does seem that some guys are frequently trying to find ways to get out of having to spend time or pay attention to their s.o. because there is some poker-related something or other that they want to do.



Aside from that little nit on that reply I think you definitely found a working plan and it was a very nice post.
Serves a nice reminder that I really should get all my records and everything else more organized.

Congratulations on your 1st year and good luck in your 2nd.


Glad to see you come back around here as well and that you hadn't completely dropped off the face of the earth. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[dwedeking]

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If you work 60/hrs a week and you made about the same as you did at your job you are not coming out ahead

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If your looking at working for yourself only as X number of hours for X amount of money your going to have a really hard time the first few years that you are in business (or in this case playing poker).

The differences that aren't measure in $x per hour is the fact that you no longer have a boss (this is worth most people's hourly wage alone) and you now have the potential to make as much money per hour as you have the desire, ambition and skill to.

Working 60 hours a week for yourself is only 1/2 as tiring as working for THE MAN for 40 hours a week, grinding out an existence in a cubicle hoping that your retirement fund will still be in existence when your ready to leave.

When I first came to 2+2 and started reading all these posts about people wanting to go pro and the responses I was amazed that no one looked at it the way I looked at starting my own business. I'm glad to see someone did and did it successfully. Congrats. All those points that you discussed could (and should) apply equally if your starting a business or going pro in the poker world.

[Abe]

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Good to see you are doing well.

How are the critters?

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My chicken is still missing but my possum, goat, and sheep are doing quite well. My buzzard had become a grandpa and my pelican was stold by an aristocrat named Steven Punk.

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Hey -- thomastem !!

You have had quite a year. Congrats!
I was going to ask about the goat and buzzard also.

[nolanfan34]

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stold by an aristocrat named Steven Punk.

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Funny that most posters on here these days won't get this reference, oh how times have changed!