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The key to your plan would be having replinishable startup capital for trading / fund. If poker can provide this for you, you can start and bust your personal 1-man funds into eternity until you either get bored and wanna do something else, or become successful. Poker(or some other zero to 5 figures routine) is crucial though -- without it, I would take the standard route and find a job somewhere.

The amount of $$ you have saved doesn't matter unless you're talking mid-7 fig -- its the ease with which trading losses could be recovered.