Originally Posted by Miffed22001

I can see the point you're making. What i think you may have missed is that 'pie in the sky' victory, for example at a WSOP event. If you win $2 million, that changes your life! So essentially poker has made your life. Thats something to consider. But as you say i think essenailly most people who are going to make a living either play mtts and win big prizes regularly or can absolutly destroy say 100NL and 200NL ring 5 tabling turning over a lot each day.
I'd like to think that i can get a norml well paid job from my education and play poker for example on an evening or at weekends and play in big MTT's hopefully cashing a few big prizes. That would be nice

Originally Posted by bencathers

http://www.jimgeary.com/poker/letters/BILLGPOK.HTM

Well, Bill Gates seems to enjoy 3-6 limit at the local B&M... so there we go

Originally Posted by bencathers

And Bill Gates paid for some of microsoft due to poker winnings @ harvard - but was it hold-em?

All we seem to know about him is that he was calling a pre-flop raise out of position with Q7 and hit quad queens. luckbox!

Originally Posted by Miffed22001

that has to be proof that life is rigged!
Quad queens and $50 billion?
Im having words with God about this shit! :P

Originally Posted by andr3w321

Not sure that this is the right forum for this post but this is just something I've been thinking about lately.

Is it really possible to eventually make a living playing poker with the best of the best at the highest stakes available? I imagine that this is the ultimate goal of many of the players here but is it realistic? I mean don't you think there will come a point in your poker career where you just can't move up anymore and consistently beat the game? Sure you've grinded your way up and you've exercised proper bankroll management, but I mean eventually doesn't there come a point where everyone is just as good as each other and you can at best be a break even player? Think about it. Does it really make sense to move up to a $50/$100 NL game playing against the top pros when you know you're never really going to be able to "crush" that game? At a certain point I think moving up in stakes just becomes foolish and will reduce your hourly wage. I don't remember who said it but when talking about SNGs but they put it well. The good $50 sng players move up to play $100 sngs. The good $100 sng players move up to play the $200 sngs. The good $200 sng players play... $200 sngs because there are no higher stakes than this.

Just something I've been thinking about lately. Don't you think there will come a point where you can't get any better and you will hit a brick wall in trying to step up your game? Even the celebrity pros probably make the majority of their income off of endorsement deals as opposed to straight up poker. Just trying to keep long term goals realistic and in perspective. Discuss please.

Disclaimer: I am in no way suggesting its not possible to make a very good living playing poker. I am just questioning the idea that the sky is the limit for how much you can make doing it.

Originally Posted by Jason

The first thing I notice is that the smallest NL buy-in at a casino I've seen is the $200 NL $1/$2, which requires a $6,000 bankroll. How many people at the casino playing No Limit actually have that capital? Probably not many.