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Its seems like I've read where many live players, who most would surely consider true pros, have talked about going broke at some time in their careers. I think Doyle acted like it was a fairly common thing.

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It's certainly much more common for live players to go broke. Live you play so few hands that having losing months shouldn't be terribly uncommon. Add to that the fact that they have fewer games offered to them making it more difficult to drop down as they lose. And at the very lowest levels it would be difficult to earn what could be considered a livable wage.

Online with vastly more hands per hour and the ability to multitable livable wages can be achieved with much smaller bankroll requirements. Online play also requires less of a cushion for living expenses because due to sheer volume losing months will be few and far between.