OT: Thinking about playing "professionaly"

[bema03]

Stay in school, keep your job and play more on the side. See how you're doing in a couple of years and post here again for advice.

[anacrime]

If you're two tabling low buy in SNGs (6-11), 6.25 will be more than your hourly rate playing SNGs.

[codewarrior]

A fun idea would to be to keep good records (like you should be doing anyway), and moving all the decimal places to the right a couple places.

Post a trip report when you're done.

Keep in mind, that if you were really playing that high, the competition would be a lot tougher.

Use it for next year's "what I did on my summer vacation" essay. Of course, you tell them you moved the decimal point to "pretend you were a real pro trying to make a living". This has potential for English as well as Econ. class.

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[microbet]

If you weren't absolutely certain that you were going to get flamed for this post, stick to being a cart-jockey.

[pooh74]

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If you weren't absolutely certain that you were going to get flamed for this post, stick to being a cart-jockey.

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To be fair to the OP, knowledge of the "internet poker-forum tolerance for going pro posts" is not necessarily correlated with his ability to do so. I'll let his post speak to that.

Oh, and to the other poster who said that 2 tabling the 11s should make hime more than 6.25 an hour, I doubt it...even if he were a winner.

[hackmonkey]

Start tracking your results. If you dont want to buy a program, then use one of the excel sheets floating around.
You cant get a decent sample of your ability until about 500 games..1000+ is a better bench mark.
At the lower games like 11 , and the limited amount of games you are playing, the payoff will not be enough to overcome your current steady job.
If you dont have too many responsibilities, i would say, read some books, pay attention to this forum, jump to the 22's and give it a shot. Once you have a mortgage, car payment, CC bills, and a full time job, its harder to make a run at it. I say what the hell..go for it.
Just make sure you are constantly learning and make adjustments. GOOD LUCK.

[revots33]

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You're only 17, you're supposed to have a job that sucks.


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LOL

[suzzer99]

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I am so sick of that job that i need a few months off(i am a chart kid making 6.25 an hour).

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to picture my job take a shoping chart walk 100 feet foward and then walk 100 feet back, do this about 5000 times and then u get 120 bucks, pretty gay

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Dude, for God's sake, go back to school until you can at least spell shopping and CART. WTF? Who misspells cart? I had to read this several times to figure out what the hell you were talking about. I thought they had you making charts in Excel all day or something.

[microbet]

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If you weren't absolutely certain that you were going to get flamed for this post, stick to being a cart-jockey.

[/ QUOTE ]To be fair to the OP, knowledge of the "internet poker-forum tolerance for going pro posts" is not necessarily correlated with his ability to do so. I'll let his post speak to that.Oh, and to the other poster who said that 2 tabling the 11s should make hime more than 6.25 an hour, I doubt it...even if he were a winner.

[/ QUOTE ]Aw, but he's a "journeyman", plus "cart-jockey" is funny.Yeah, to the OP, just kidding. Do as thou wilt.

[suzzer99]

It's 'chart-jockey'. Get it straight dude.