making a living at live 1/2

[Mazda6]

Do any of you guys make a living at live 1/2? What is your hourly win rate?

[CeJeH]

I dont make a living, but i use it as a 2nd job. I average about $50/hr, not outstanding but for me it certainly gets the job done.

CeJeH

[hkrumnow]

I'm not sure its possible. The rake is just too high. If you play a strong tight aggressive game I don't know if you'll see enough hands, get enough action to even make $50 and hour long term. You may have runs where an extremely soft game will give you enough action on your good hands to win a reasonable amount. I'm interested in more feedback on this. I have played some at WinStar in OK and have found the games to be very loose. I wonder what sort of long term results a good player could expect. And I may play too tightly for that soft a game.

[sixsixtie]

I played for about a year and averaged around $35/hr

[Mazda6]

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I dont make a living, but i use it as a 2nd job. I average about $50/hr, not outstanding but for me it certainly gets the job done.

CeJeH

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WOAH that sounds really good, how many hours have you played so far? Also wtf do you do for a living?

[Taso]

How is the rake too high? Max rake at the Taj is 4 bucks. It's 10%, up to 4 bucks. And everyone plays so bad/ so loose that all the pots have over 30 bucks in them.

[hkrumnow]

sure, when play is really bad. But if you raise and take the blinds you aren't going to make any money...I guess that is pretty rare. The last long session I played I was really card dead. When I got hands I won small pots. Thats why I was thinking a might have been playing too tight.

[MrBrightside]

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I dont make a living, but i use it as a 2nd job. I average about $50/hr, not outstanding but for me it certainly gets the job done.

CeJeH

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Yeah. I consider myself a decent, but not great NL cash player. I play once or twice a week. Over about a year, I'm like $20 an hour, and feel I still have a lot to learn. $20 an hour ain't bad for a hobby.

[Mazda6]

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I dont make a living, but i use it as a 2nd job. I average about $50/hr, not outstanding but for me it certainly gets the job done.

CeJeH

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Yeah your clearly a retard. Your post should be considered spam.

[redfisher]

What's a living? I ran into a grad student down here who was playing 4/8 LHE and occasional 2/5 NLHE for a "living". He was making ends meet until school started again, but it wasn't a career. If you mean can you make a sustainable livelihood and raise a family playing 1/2 the answer is no.