Who is playing full-time ,part-time or a mix of both?

I just am curious to know how many of the people that post on boards play poker full-time and how they find it if they do? Are there many of you that have a full-time job but play as much as you work? Is there anyone that plays or played full-time that had to go back working after a bad run ?

I play part time myself and my profit for the year online & offline is circa €7k. I dont think thats too bad. How about everyone else?

Mr.Plough

barely part time because 4th year is ****

newbie2

Play part-time myself. I play up to 20 hours a week. Up about €14,300 so far this year in live and online. Sometimes I'm tempted to jack in the job and take poker up full time, but I really need the security - family etc. :rolleyes:

If I win the WSOP I'll jack in work and play all the time - wearing a crown and a fur coat !!:D

newbie2

newbie2 wrote: »

Play part-time myself. I play up to 20 hours a week. Up about €14,300 so far this year in live and online. Sometimes I'm tempted to jack in the job and take poker up full time, but I really need the security - family etc. :rolleyes:

If I win the WSOP I'll jack in work and play all the time - wearing a crown and a fur coat !!:D

Good going, I would too lol. I feel I dont play enough cash online to make a more regular profit from it. Just being placing/winning in the odd MTT.

DEmeant0r

Used to play 3 hours a day, 7 days a week part-time, now the final year work is piling in, I rarely get to even play an hour every two days. Oh well!

pok3rplaya

I play full time. Down about $30,000 this year. gg

a-k-47

part time... full time would be stressful, be grey by 30

ianmc38

I play full time, been playing about 80 hours a month the last few months. Hoping to cut that down to 60 after Chistmas.

i made $100/hour with my last account. my new one is $50/hour over 50k hands.

RasTa

Extremely part time and only live. Play some micro stakes omaha on-line when I need a fix.

buck65

part time online small stakes, have become addicted to €5 sit n go heads ups, played about 20 this week and won 3/4 of them

DeVore

Mix of both, I flipflop from being pretty much 100% playing for my rent to months where I barely play a hand in a week.

DeV.

Heisenberg.

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luckylucky

I went totally full-time last week, I was sort of 70% full-time before that. The main change for me is that I've hugely increased the number of tables I play at one time since last Monday.

pok3rplaya

The Scientist wrote: »

Seriously?

ya. Life is good

Heisenberg.

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RedJoker

Only play on the weekends, too tired from college during the week.

pok3rplaya

RedJoker wrote: »

too tired from college during the week.

You're doing it wrong.

Gholimoli

not even part time,i play more than i like (or should ) be really.

i play some wkd now and only play live now.

tried playing full time for a month.
lost my bollix,go depressed,lost weight and other things too .
then i reliased i can never ever do this for a living.
the only good thing that came out of it was that i now have no illusions abt poker and i think illusion is mot ppl's downfall.

RoundTower

ianmc38 wrote: »

I play full time, been playing about 80 hours a month the last few months.

I play about the same, so I checked "part time".

Captain Tom

pok3rplaya wrote: »

Down about $30,000 this year

i would be beating this if i still had any money to lose. life expenses FTL.

[nicK]

full time, for the time being..
surely life has more to offer though? /me goes off to browse some casual investment opportunites..

Marq

I do my bollocks on a part-time basis.

jimmii

After a couple of solid years I gave it a shot for a few months last year and it went totally pear shaped! Having just moved right now its my only source of income but I will be getting a job at some point. Playing for fun and making money is a lot easier than having to win to pay bills!

Tar.Aldarion

Part time.
Jimmii is busy getting beaten full time at my place. :P

Rb

Barely part time at the moment. Moved out of the house a few months ago and with work and with the useless POS myself and the girlfriend live with constantly putting me in a bad mood haven't been in the form to put in many hands over those months.

jimmii

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Part time.
Jimmii is busy getting beaten full time at my place. :P

Now I know that limping UTG and then calling a raise is standard i'll be a lot more prepared! Due some cards next time for sure!!

Rossibaby

on the poker dole

jbravado

Lolage-do or should I say did me proverbials full time for 8 months of misery- poke iz hard.

Signing on ftw.

POKERKING

Gholimoli wrote: »

not even part time,i play more than i like (or should ) be really.

i play some wkd now and only play live now.

tried playing full time for a month.
lost my bollix,go depressed,lost weight and other things too .
then i reliased i can never ever do this for a living.
the only good thing that came out of it was that i now have no illusions abt poker and i think illusion is mot ppl's downfall.

never a truer word said!

im in australia for a year and instead of gettin a ****ty part time job ive been playin poker, fell into it by accident as hadnt planned on playin much this year but its paid for my lifestyle since i got here without the need for a job. I make a little but nothin near id make working in a job partly due to the fact my bankroll is low so i only play low limits, some weeks i could easily put in 50 hrs for a basic return but have to say it can be one of the most depresing feelings in the world and i f i take a bad beat before i go out i can be in terrible form for the night and actually unbearable to be around, the funny thing is i have had some big mtt wins and the good feeling from winning them doesnt make up for the bad feeling of taking a couple of beats in a row, i take my hat off to people who play full time and make a great living it certainly isnt mentally easy and like the guy above the best thing ive learned is "now have no illusions abt poker and i think illusion is mot ppl's downfall."

peeko

playing full time. making just enough to survive. thank god for rakeback

Tar.Aldarion

jimmii wrote: »

Now I know that limping UTG and then calling a raise is standard i'll be a lot more prepared! Due some cards next time for sure!!

Also, getting called by pete(and others) is standard. Get used to never taking a hand down preflop.

Rossibaby wrote: »

on the poker dole

Then I had better give you harrington on holdem brother

Rossibaby

only messing im genius...are you on blondepoker brother dear...great pics from wahhterfurd tourny including mr chin chin

Tom Hanlon

Playing full time since the middle of last year when I jacked in the day job. Probably have been practising for the last 20 years before I had the conviction that it was right and safe to do it. Would never have gone full time without the online action as although I made good money ever year from live omaha it wasnt enough to consider giving up the day job but the internet changed all that. Play 100% online now in the PLO decent stake games.

My advice to anyone who has a job and is considering chucking it in and going full time is try and do both for at least 3 years and if after that period your poker = 2-3 x full time salary for that period then go ahead. Not only will you be confident that you can beat the game you will also have built up a nice bankroll for security. Rules and targets are also important

Tom

Macspower

Good advice from Tom... I certainly wouldn't give up a job to play poker... There are a lot of times when I wish I had a job and didn't have to constantly withdraw to live... I would then have the opportunity to bankroll build a lot quicker...

If I was in a job and considering leaving it to play full time I would first make sure i had a bankroll ot support the game and have beaten at least 3 levels comfortably

bottom feeder

i play part time and have no intention of giving up my job as im no were near good enough to play for a living! still working on my tilt control.
good post Tom.

CaptainNemo

Gholimoli wrote: »

not even part time,i play more than i like (or should ) be really.

i play some wkd now and only play live now.

tried playing full time for a month.
lost my bollix,go depressed,lost weight and other things too .
then i reliased i can never ever do this for a living.
the only good thing that came out of it was that i now have no illusions abt poker and i think illusion is mot ppl's downfall.

Gholi surely you just ran bad. You seem to be an excellent player, your advice on here is always respected.

Or by illusion do you mean illusions about your ability to cope with it emotionally?

CaptainNemo

bottom feeder wrote: »

still working on my tilt control.

Where did you get that? I don't have any and have been looking for a while. Do they bottle it?

bottom feeder

CaptainNemo wrote: »

Where did you get that? I don't have any and have been looking for a while. Do they bottle it?

Sry man cant buy that sh!t in a shop, thats why i can still tilt like a mutha-fu@ka