Can I make a living off playing casino poker?
Question by Eric: Can I make a living off playing casino poker?
I am a 22 year old college student who enjoys poker. I am not looking at poker as a career, only a job to get me through school and pay my rent of $ 300 a month. I really want to test it out but am nervous because it is a gamble itself. Any opinions or experience?
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Answer by Sean Martin RULEZZZZZZZZ!!!!
if you can count cards
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You can make a living IF you are lucky and good. But as one pro put it, you can lose as easily as you win and losing hurts. The first time she lost $ 10,000 in one game, she cried long and hard. By the way, I’m referring to live games, not the machines. The machines are rigged and will not let anyone consistently win. Do not mess with them.
don’t listen to all those other people. Are you good enough to be a consistent winner? Only way to find out is to try. Deposit a small amount online and play the lowest limit cash game you can find, never risking more than 5% of your bankroll to cushion you from the bad beats (variance). If you are showing a decent profit, ROI, after at least 50,000 hands then you have a chance. Otherwise you won’t know. You could make a profit in the short term due to luck, then take some bad beats and lose all your money.
Start small and work your way up.
I don’t know, can you? Lots of people can. The fact that you’re asking this questions tells me that you probably can’t.
Professional poker players are recreational poker players who have put an immense amount of time and effort into becoming great. It sounds like you’ve never even sat in a casino poker game, which means you need to spend a lot of time learning before you can even consider playing to pay your rent.
My opinion is that a part time job at McDonald’s is a much better way for you (specifically) to make an extra $ 300 a month to pay your rent.
Obviously it’s possible because the poker pros do it. But you’re the only one who can decide whether your skills are good enough to reliably profit enough monthly or not. All I can suggest is keep careful records of your profit and losses as well as how many hours spent doing so…that’s the only way to get a reasonable estimate of what your hourly ‘wage’ is playing poker and from that how much time you need to be at the tables every month to pay the bills. If that works out to less time than you’d have to spend working at a traditional job, go for it.
Before deciding to choose this path let me warn you of the disadvantages first. Poker has many benefits but it also has many negative consequences that come with playing long hours. The first thing you need to play any game for a living is patience. Playing every day can get extremely tiring. Playing for a living requires extreme mental discipline and a steady game plan. It’s a good idea to record how many hours you play each day and what your total profit for the day is.
You said it… its a gamble its self… You COULD…. you could also find yourself in trouble..