Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
I've come to similar conclusions myself. When I first came up the poker ladder, I got my hourly to $40 which was on par with my day job. Someone in my blog or somewhere even made a post to the effect "why not do it full time"? Then Black Friday hit and it's like "wow, how stupid would it have been to quit a nice day job for poker?" - especially as an American player. Also, regarding point 3, limon at 2+2 has mentioned this a few times, but if you play poker long enough, you start to realize that poker can be really boring - especially live. It is NOT passive income. You have to be inside the casino logging hours and hours mostly folding and waiting for the right hands and the right situations hoping you don't get coolered, sucked out on, run against top of ranges, and don't even think about tilting. I could maybe grind online 4 hours a day 5-6 days a week, but I don't think I could do 40 hours unless I had some ABC chart style of play that required little thinking. And even in that case, it wouldn't be fun, it would feel like a job and I'd eventually hate it. Grinding live for 40 hours a week live sounds like agony, too.
Yah I agree with these points for sure.

Barring legalization of online poker in the US, poker will only get harder, so maintaining the status quo will get tougher. While technically a paying job should be on the up and up over time.

Having poker as a fall back (in case of being laid off) and as a supplemental income is definitely an asset though. I'll probably keep playing online, if only to test myself and maintain my skill level.