when playing full time....what do I need to know?

My suggestion is to use those extra few hours each day that you would be playing towards trying even harder to find work.

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

My suggestion is to use those extra few hours each day that you would be playing towards trying even harder to find work.

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Originally Posted by spoonitnow

My suggestion is to use those extra few hours each day that you would be playing towards trying even harder to find work.

Just to clarify, let's suppose you rocket up the stakes like some of the FTR guys did (Micro2micro is an example). Still, they needed several months to go from 2nl to 100nl, and that's still only, say, $3k in bankroll - without withdrawing. Withdrawing anything slows that down.

You have to have more bankroll than $200 to think about poker as anything but a break-even hobby right now. You also need to be a winning player over 50k hands (or more) before you should think about profiting/moving up/withdrawing.

Any real job still leaves 10 - 20 hours (or more) each week to play poker and build a game (first) and then a bankroll.