Cash game pros - lifestyle (and numbers) questions

[theplux]

Yes for ING.

What do I mean by 'sleeping bankroll'. Lets say you play 1-2. You dont need more than 10k to play that, and even 8k is fine. If you've 20k roll, then theres 10k at least that is 'sleeping' and could be profitable somewhere else.

[Phase2]

alright, thats what I thought. THanks.

[MTBlue]

a couple of things: first you've got a lot of flexibility with social life and time spent playing. After trying alot of schedules I've been working 9-5 and it seems to be the best, but you can chose what you want.

Its the same with your social life. There is very few mandatory functions (God fishes at 25/50 and the like), so you make your own.

As for your decision to go pro, I would suggest moving down. You don't have alot of sample size at 5/10 and the games are tough, only the best players maintain 7BB/100. You are going to go broke.

[ImsaKidd]

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a couple of things: first you've got a lot of flexibility with social life and time spent playing. After trying alot of schedules I've been working 9-5 and it seems to be the best, but you can chose what you want.

Its the same with your social life. There is very few mandatory functions (God fishes at 25/50 and the like), so you make your own.

As for your decision to go pro, I would suggest moving down. You don't have alot of sample size at 5/10 and the games are tough, only the best players maintain 7BB/100. You are going to go broke.

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7bb/100 was some other guy, not OP.

I do my best to balance everything, school and poker are pretty difficult to do together, a lot of the times i have to sacrifice one for the other.

[Phase2]

i play 1-2 almost exclusively now, with some 2-4 when the games are soft.

THe time i tried 3-6 and 5-10 was when i was not relying on poker for income, now that i have gone pro i have not played anything above 2-4 ... its all 1-2 and sometimes 2-4. I plan on staying at this level for a few months. My goal is 1.1k profit per 2weeks, which is more then attainable if i stick to 1-2.

[soon2b]

play 100k hands at 1/2, report back.

[tannenj]

i don't understand it when people imply that it's harder to have a social life playing poker than working a real job. supporting yourself via poker requires less hours and provides more flexibility.

op, one thing to keep in mind that i don't think has been mentioned is the importance of exercise. this applies to anything, i think, and not just poker, but it's no coincidence that guys like ivey and antonius keep themselves in such good shape. i'm planning to do the poker thing for a while after graduation and will probably put myself on a schedule in which i work out for an hour or two every day prior to playing a session.

[JKratzer]

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i don't understand it when people imply that it's harder to have a social life playing poker than working a real job.

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the best times to play often coincide with other people's social time.

[SEABEAST]

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i don't understand it when people imply that it's harder to have a social life playing poker than working a real job.

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i'm planning to do the poker thing for a while after graduation

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yeah. it's a lot different when you don't have an enforced structure to your life. it's easy to theorise about still keeping a normal healthy well adjusted couple of hrs of poker/voluntarily structure the rest of your day in a healthy way even though you don't have to type deal, but in reality after months on end of setting your own hours and being able to do whatever you damn well feel like, and usually pulling in truly sick amounts of money in the process because you don't have to focus on other things as much, things change a bit.

i exercise a lot play in band have gf etc, but it's still hard to keep a normal existence, especially because even if you have a lot of spare time, other people usually don't - they can only socialise during certain days/hours of the week, in which time you could be in any sort of mindset because your life is so open-ended. so even when you do see people, maybe they are exhausted from a hard day of work whereas you've just woken up from losing $5000 the night before. this is why i'm in the stay in school camp even though i didn't myself.

i mean, if you can keep a normal sleeping pattern and set your life to a rough schedule even after playing for a living for 6 months or a year then that's awesome, but it can be tough.

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i don't understand it when people imply that it's harder to have a social life playing poker than working a real job. supporting yourself via poker requires less hours and provides more flexibility.

op, one thing to keep in mind that i don't think has been mentioned is the importance of exercise. this applies to anything, i think, and not just poker, but it's no coincidence that guys like ivey and antonius keep themselves in such good shape. i'm planning to do the poker thing for a while after graduation and will probably put myself on a schedule in which i work out for an hour or two every day prior to playing a session.

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tannen, i think one of the problems with the social life thing is that alot of people are going to new places but bc poker is so unstructured it is harder to make friends then if say, u got a job with Merrill and you went out for drinks with all your other fellow analyst for instance

so, on top of the lack on an institution thing, there is the backwardsness of your life that will, (often) despite your best efforts, not conveniently match up with everyone else's