Official June Thread: General Discussion/etc

[KRANTZ]

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alright,

it's getting to be that point in my life and I gotta know MSNL...


how many of you actually do this for a living?

and should i?

thoughts please

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such a complicated decision. looking back on my one year so far though, and it's been pretty awesome as a whole

[mrTEA]

no more at least im not johnnycakes [censored]. Its now at least im not mrTEA

[iamkafka]

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alright,

it's getting to be that point in my life and I gotta know MSNL...


how many of you actually do this for a living?

and should i?

thoughts please

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If you're asking here you're not sure wheter you want it or not and in that case i think you shouldn't. It requires a lot of dedication, discipline, good play and much more. It's an extremly stressful job and basically it can ruin your social life if you can't control yourself very well. Having said that it can be awesome like in 1% of the cases [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[oyvindgee]

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playing poker part time + normal life >>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>> playing pro

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Why?

Or more precisely, why can't you be a pro and lead a normal life?

[Jigsaws]

I wonder whether anyone finding the life of a pro poker player tough to deal with has ever worked a mind-numbing office job for 40 hours a week.

[iamkafka]

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I wonder whether anyone finding the life of a pro poker player tough to deal with has ever worked a mind-numbing office job for 40 hours a week.

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I wonder whether you've ever worked as a poker pro.

[oyvindgee]

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I wonder whether anyone finding the life of a pro poker player tough to deal with has ever worked a mind-numbing office job for 40 hours a week.

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I wonder whether you've ever worked as a poker pro.

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wtf? Definition of a poker pro: Someone who derives the majority of his income from poker.

This is not hard and requires like 1-2 hours work/day to make more money than most people with regular jobs.

[FGators]

I figure if you go pro and live in a fun apartment you can get that social interaction with roomates when they come home from work,etc.

Also stay the hell in shape, go to a gym 4 times a week...that gives you a little social interaction.

Go to the bars on the weekends....travel if you are on a hot streak with people that can get free.

You don't have to live in a solitary apartment and be a huge computer nerd.

[PBJaxx]

I am planning on going pro within the next 2 months. I currently work 40+ hrs/week as an engineer, play in a band 3 nights a week, party 3 nights a week, and play poker an average of 1.5hrs/day. During that 1.5hrs/day I make significantly more than at my FT job. The point of all that? I HIGHLY doubt my life will become less social by going pro.

My fears stem from the legislative environment in the US, and the resume gap I will obtain in the process. I am close to having 6 months of living expenses saved up outside of my bankroll. Once that happens, I intend on picking a date to make the change. Anyone in a similar situation (professional career traded for poker pro), I would appreciate any advice!

[TheWorstPlayer]

It 100% depends on what type of a person you are and what you want to get out of your career. If you want to make enough money to live comfortably and not work too hard and have lots of time to spend with friends and family and enjoy traveling and stuff, then poker pro lifestyle is perfect. But if you either want to have some marked advancement in your career (ok, moving up in limits is 'advancement' but you're not really building any new skillsets or doing anything very different) or you want to make a LOT of money (very very few people will make more than a million per year in poker) then probably a different career is best.

This is coming from working 4 years as a management consultant and now having taken three months off to play 'full time'. I definitely enjoy the poker lifestyle, but ultimately even though i make more money currently playing poker part-time than I do working full-time, very soon that balance will shift indefinitely towards the working side of the spectrum. And I have done things at work that poker players could never do, like lead meetings with Fortune 500 CEOs, etc. That is pretty damn cool, IMHO.