June 17, 2010
Looks like it's going to be a loooong grind ....
Well that sux!
I can’t believe it has taken me this long to do the proper maths on this. It is no secret to anyone that has spoken to me for more than 2 minutes that my one aim is to be able to play poker professionally one day. Even if it is a 6 month shot that doesn’t work out. I just want to say that I have done it at some point in my life. If I am one of the lucky few that it works out for then that’s great, but I will deal with those sort of issues when the time comes.Â
I have decided that for me to take a shot at this for atleast 6 months I will need to supplement my regular weekly income of about 2k plus allow about 1000BB poker only portion for my BR, that’s 60k (2k x 24weeks + 10k) I need to clear before taking a shot. I figure that a slightly above avg winrate at 5/10 should be enough to allow me to live off the profits while still building my poker BR slightly. And yes I know that a lot of people will not agree with the above figures, but they are only rough guesstimates to give me an idea of what I am looking at. At the moment I am playing about 10hrs per week around my normal 925er, family and kids.
So even if I can somehow find my way from the 0.50/1 – 1/2 stakes that I am playing now to 5/10, and have an exceptional winrate of 2BB/100 at that level, it is going to take me almost 6 years to get the 60k together to be able to take a shot at playing full time. Keep in mind I am one of those nits that still only single tables ;) this means that on avg I get about 100hands/hr.
So as I said at the beginning, That Sux! I guess I am either going to have to win the lotto, or a semi-good buyin tournament (of which both are as likely as each other :p ). I have no idea how you guys get the scratch together to be able to start playing full time in the first place. Only thing I can assume is that a lot of people are playing below their BR when they first start.
Oh well, guess it’s back to the grind and dreams, maybe one day I might get lucky. Gonna have to dig up some DC tourney vids and see what we can get going.
I have decided that for me to take a shot at this for atleast 6 months I will need to supplement my regular weekly income of about 2k plus allow about 1000BB poker only portion for my BR, that’s 60k (2k x 24weeks + 10k) I need to clear before taking a shot. I figure that a slightly above avg winrate at 5/10 should be enough to allow me to live off the profits while still building my poker BR slightly. And yes I know that a lot of people will not agree with the above figures, but they are only rough guesstimates to give me an idea of what I am looking at. At the moment I am playing about 10hrs per week around my normal 925er, family and kids.
So even if I can somehow find my way from the 0.50/1 – 1/2 stakes that I am playing now to 5/10, and have an exceptional winrate of 2BB/100 at that level, it is going to take me almost 6 years to get the 60k together to be able to take a shot at playing full time. Keep in mind I am one of those nits that still only single tables ;) this means that on avg I get about 100hands/hr.
So as I said at the beginning, That Sux! I guess I am either going to have to win the lotto, or a semi-good buyin tournament (of which both are as likely as each other :p ). I have no idea how you guys get the scratch together to be able to start playing full time in the first place. Only thing I can assume is that a lot of people are playing below their BR when they first start.
Oh well, guess it’s back to the grind and dreams, maybe one day I might get lucky. Gonna have to dig up some DC tourney vids and see what we can get going.
5 Comments:
bferst posted on June 17, 2010 at 04:01 AM
1000bb?
100BI at 100bb a bi, more like 10,000bb no?
learn to multi table
try it with play chips if you want, its really not that hard.
aus_dragon posted on June 17, 2010 at 04:41 AM
I am talking BB not bb and am talking Limit not No Limit. For limit 1000BBs is enough to have as a dedicated BR for playing full time imo. But each to their own really. As for multi-tabling, I actually do it by choice. I can and have played up to 4 tables profitably, but find playing single table LHE actually leads to a better win rate and I find my game has improved A LOT more and faster playing the one table. I tend to just play very ABC auto when I multi-table and am very exploitable.
GingerViking posted on June 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Multitabling is the way forward.
caperbii posted on June 17, 2010 at 11:48 AM
You have to listen to dc members on this. Play 3-4 tables or rush poker. Anyone can still play A game at 3-4 tables. It's unlikely you will ever build the bankroll otherwise
Gl!
Roykt posted on June 17, 2010 at 19:07 PM
lets ay you can manage 4 tables at one time...then you 4x your current volume...best of luck m8..
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