What advice would you give to someone recently playing for a living?

[Sparta45]

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Hello.

Recently I took the decision to leave university for a variety of personal reasons. At the minute im unemployed and I'm not really looking for a job as such while I sort my life out.

Over the past few months I have made reasonably consistent money playing the low/mid-level SNG's online and Im also going along OK in live play. While I'm realistic enough to know I'm probably not going to be the next WSOP champion I am confident I am good enough to grind out a living playing the game while I sort myself out so this is the route I plan on taking, at least for the short term.

However, as for the actual time/bankroll/wages management part of playing as my sole income I am pretty clueless. So what I am asking for is the experiences of anybody who is or has recently turned professional to help me out and maybe give me a bit of guidance if possible.

I know this is a dangerous route to go down but I think with a little help I should be ok.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much,

Matt.

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[matt85]

Hello.

I forgot about this thread whilst I got my head down for a few weeks.

Basically I went ahead and played a little poker with pretty modest results (due to bankroll limitations) and then I got distracted by all the juicy casino sign up bonuses and basically just whored them all! Did (and continue todo ) really well out of them. ($5k in 90 days so far)

After a month or so I re-focussed back on poker and continue to hammer the bonuses with a nicely fattened roll and found a comfortable home multitabling $100NL. Incidentally, casino bonuses really opened my eyes up to how much could also be made with the poker bonuses.

In this period I feel my game has also really improved and whilst there are obvious changes in how I play needed in order to develop further, my poker instincts are really coming along and I feel able to spot and take advantage of great opportunities to make plays at people who they will actually work on.

Lets hope it keeps flowing in the right way!

[kimchi]

Ed Miller gives some good advice in 3 articles. The 1st you can find here: http://www.notedpokerauthority.com/a...s/article4.htm