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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Start with 3 tables. Scale it up when that gets boring. repeat.
I know you don't want to admit it, but setting monetary goals in poker is a surefire way to tilt yourself. You'll focus too much on small-samples and short term results. My advice is to always set goals that are directly under your control.
Examples of "good" goals (in my opinion)
Read xx books in yy time.
Play sessions of exactly xx length and slowly increase to yy length of playing solid, A-game poker.
Spend xx time going over hand histories
etc.
Each goal is something you can check off a list because you chose to do it. In poker, some days you can't win with your A-game, and some days your B- or C-game is plenty good enough to turn a profit. So as much as possible, remove your profit from your to-do list.
Thanks, I will be developing a set of goals like you have indicated, I'll post them here when I figure out the specifics!
Originally Posted by daviddem
Not only you're paid more, but you also get tax breaks and often benefits like housing and car allowance. As far as I know if you are US citizen, unlike most Europeans, you still have to pay taxes in the US even if you live outside the US, but less than if you were home. Of course there may be local taxes, but depending on your contract and the country you work in, your company may pay that for you. The only way for US citizens not to pay US taxes at all is to give up their citizenship.
I work on the oil rigs, currently in Saudi Arabia, as a drilling engineer. I work equal time rotations, 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off (pretty much always have). I have never paid a single cent in taxes, and while I am not going to plaster on the forum how much I make, I can say it is "multiples" of 60k per year, even though I only work half of the time.
Single tabling is horribly boring and slow except heads up (the only more boring thing I know is to play live full ring cash games in casinos). If you play 6max start with 2-3 tables. If you play FR start with 4-5. Some sites play faster than others (Full Tilt is noticeably faster than Party Poker for example).
Interesting. My #1 goal for online is to learn about the game and increase my skill. Will I be able to maximize things like paying attention to ranges, player types, history... basically enough information to be beneficial when multitabling?
From the general feedback I've been hearing, online poker seems to be a lot harder these days - whereas live is a lot softer. I'm leaning towards playing live primarily. so my primary goal for online right now is to best prepare myself for live play.
Engineering - If I end up having to go that route overseas is definitely what i'll do. I'm hoping for europe though, haha. wouldn't england be nice?
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