Bankroll beginnings

[hotbacon]

started with 50 online bout 2 yrs ago, lost it cuz i was a fish. then i got mad and wanted to be good so i read and tried to get better. deposited 50 more, said that would be the last money i ever put into poker, grinded a small bb/100 at limit then eventually switched to NL and sucked until recently, now i should be a 5/10 reg by dec.

[Quester]

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50k a year should be piece a cake for a solid NL200 winner. I'll let you know when I've played pro for a year.

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Well hurry up so I know if I can quit my job next year or not. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[StnBuddha]

Put $50 into Bodog in March and started short stacking nl 50..Probably about the same month, deposited another $150 at Bodog and when I worked it up to about ~800, started playing nl 100 6max....Just started to make the switch from Dog to FTP, still nl 100, but what a difference.....

I like FTP much better and I think it's a better place to play if you want to develop your game....

Just my 2c

[carnivalhobo]

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50k a year should be piece a cake for a solid NL200 winner. I'll let you know when I've played pro for a year.

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Well hurry up so I know if I can quit my job next year or not. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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basic math is your friend, a reasonable winner with a decent work ethic should be able to make around 6 figures.

[kaby]

basic math:

600 hands/hour
6 hours day (+ 2 hours study/improving your play)
20 days/month
11 months (vacation)

= 70k hands/month or 770k hands/year

4ptbb/100 at nl200 = 16$/100

= 11 200$/month
= 123 200 $/year (pre taxes)

and this excludes rakeback which is like 1ptbb/100? so 2800$ RB/month or 30 000$ RB/year, but using rakeback to build your bankroll so you can move up seems like a good idea

this seems a realistic work schedule and totally discounts the fact that you will get a lot better when you work on improving your play 2h/day in addition to playing for 6 hours ...

[bubaloo]

started playing homegame cash/donkaments about 3 years ago, a friend was playing online and said he made like $200, i was "wow", ill give it a try. put $20 onto pacific poker about 8-10 times, played $5 sng's and 10nl mostly, but as soon as i won some money i would move up (2 buyin bankroll FTW). finally (after about 1.5yrs) got pissed off @ losing, found pokertracker and 2+2 around feb this year and started taking it seriously and slowly ground up a mediocre bankroll. currently hovering around 50-200nl.

edit: poker has been my sole source of income since around march, have cashed out about 3x what i have in my roll now, huge beat, i need to get a job or something to speed things up.

[AllIn3High]

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basic math:

600 hands/hour
6 hours day (+ 2 hours study/improving your play)
20 days/month
11 months (vacation)

= 70k hands/month or 770k hands/year

4ptbb/100 at nl200 = 16$/100

= 11 200$/month
= 123 200 $/year (pre taxes)

and this excludes rakeback which is like 1ptbb/100? so 2800$ RB/month or 30 000$ RB/year, but using rakeback to build your bankroll so you can move up seems like a good idea

this seems a realistic work schedule and totally discounts the fact that you will get a lot better when you work on improving your play 2h/day in addition to playing for 6 hours ...

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Except how often do you actually see posters who report these kind of results at SSNL? Not saying it's impossible -- it isn't but most people either get sick of poker or don't maintain that work ethic.

Not being a hater, but really how often do we see fgator-lik e number of hands @ 200nl w/ 4ptbb/100?

[AFennewald]

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50k a year should be piece a cake for a solid NL200 winner. I'll let you know when I've played pro for a year.

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Well hurry up so I know if I can quit my job next year or not. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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basic math is your friend, a reasonable winner with a decent work ethic should be able to make around 6 figures.

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Yeah I'm at 40K with like 600 hours played this year playing mainly 200nl 6 max. With a better win rate could be higher. If I could extent that to 40 hours a weak obv enough to live on. And I am far from the best 1/2 player on pokerstars I think. So pretty easy to make a living off poker. You just have to consider how many bridges you burn. Obv it won't be this easy forever.

[dirtylobster]

That's why I said 50k should be piece of cake. Everyone won't/wouldn't maintain 6 hours per day for a year.

[kaby]

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basic math:

600 hands/hour
6 hours day (+ 2 hours study/improving your play)
20 days/month
11 months (vacation)

= 70k hands/month or 770k hands/year

4ptbb/100 at nl200 = 16$/100

= 11 200$/month
= 123 200 $/year (pre taxes)

and this excludes rakeback which is like 1ptbb/100? so 2800$ RB/month or 30 000$ RB/year, but using rakeback to build your bankroll so you can move up seems like a good idea

this seems a realistic work schedule and totally discounts the fact that you will get a lot better when you work on improving your play 2h/day in addition to playing for 6 hours ...

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Except how often do you actually see posters who report these kind of results at SSNL? Not saying it's impossible -- it isn't but most people either get sick of poker or don't maintain that work ethic.

Not being a hater, but really how often do we see fgator-lik e number of hands @ 200nl w/ 4ptbb/100?

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isn't it possible that's because the people that do have the work ethic to play 6 hours a day and study for 2 more crush the games and move up?