how much do you make / lose from poker?

miju · 26-04-2009 8:45pm #1

I've searched and havent found this topic (if it exists then im one blind fook

)Am just curious really.

personally make about €70 per month online give or take most months. on average what would your profit / loss be?

or is it really bad etiquette to ask?

Chucky the tree · 26-04-2009 8:54pm

I doubt you will get many people admitting to being losers, and you'll also get many people lying about how much they make. You shouldnt really worry about how much you make in a month or set any $$$ related targets as variance etc can play a bit part. I'd usually make about $1000 or so. Bonuses and Rakeback or a huge help though, alot will depend on how many hands I play aswell, this month for example I'll be doing well to his $400 or so.

KevIRL · 26-04-2009 8:58pm

I've lost count of how much I've lost

miju · 26-04-2009 8:58pm

yeah I'm not really expecting many replies tbh and I know variance plays a good part. i usually only play the 0.10/0.25 tables as anymore and i'd prob end up losing a fortune on a bad run

bUILDERtHEbOB · 26-04-2009 9:00pm

I've been playing for 2/3 months, no matter how far up or down I go I always end up back at breaking even, it just makes no sense, or I'm just not good.

YULETIRED · 26-04-2009 9:04pm

I've lost my big blind more often that I've saved it, don't even start me on my small blind.

HibsAreIt · 26-04-2009 9:08pm

Overall on my 3 year online poker experience in down about 2k id say,was alot more but got a few nice mtt cashes this year and pulled a good bit back.Still find myself comingh home on a Friday/Saturday night after a few and losing alot:o

miju · 26-04-2009 9:12pm

bUILDERtHEbOB wrote: »

I've been playing for 2/3 months, no matter how far up or down I go I always end up back at breaking even, it just makes no sense, or I'm just not good.

personally speaking if i broke even every month i'd be happy as it's a hobby thats paying for itself

pgodkin · 26-04-2009 9:14pm

I made myself look like a donkey more than once and have only lost my marbles many a night. I've been playin 3 years and say i would be down just around 6k that would have been mostly live though, but went on a heater a few weeks ago and got alot of it back.... but im still down but im learning alot more and am far more in control of myself which was a major cash leakage both online and live!!

26-04-2009 9:15pm

I've won a total of €3,500 in tournaments (€2,900 of which was a freeroll run last summer).

I'm plus about €500 in live cash games

Online I'd say I'm break even or maybe -~€100, as I usually just played with whatever rakeback I got.

I only play tiny stakes, maybe someday I'll concentrate more on playing instead of donating.

Whyno · 26-04-2009 9:32pm

Oh der will be lies...did you not know that no one wins online..ITS RIGGED

The guy on d radio even said it:cool:

Donkathon · 26-04-2009 10:04pm

i'm defo in the minus bracket but i'm blaming the fact i dont play from a bankroll for that depositing €50 at a time on stars and dropin it playin like playin $13 sng's, will play on a bankroll by the summer hopefully and then take playing a bit more seriously

jack90210 · 26-04-2009 10:34pm

HibsAreIt wrote: »

Overall on my 3 year online poker experience in down about 2k id say,was alot more but got a few nice mtt cashes this year and pulled a good bit back.Still find myself comingh home on a Friday/Saturday night after a few and losing alot:o

u make my mouth water

NickyOD · 26-04-2009 10:40pm

YULETIRED wrote: »

I've lost my big blind more often that I've saved it, don't even start me on my small blind.

So far this year I'm up 0.04BBs per hand from my big blind and 0.05BBs per hand from my small blind.

Jesus Wept · 27-04-2009 12:07am

NickyOD wrote: »

So far this year I'm up 0.04BBs per hand from my big blind and 0.05BBs per hand from my small blind.

So far this year I'm up 14.03BB's per hand from Nicky's big blind and 99.73 per hand from his small blind.

cooker3 · 27-04-2009 12:36am

I am up but that's mainly due to always having decent bankroll management :eek: and reading a lot while reviewing hands :cool: I know when I stop caring and start playing less I should get in the minus!

tipp86 · 27-04-2009 12:51am

Ive withdrawn $1870 this year but it varies on my finances as to what id take out.

shano_88 · 27-04-2009 1:30am

im up around $2200 this year but that does include a tourney score of $1350........

RedJoker · 27-04-2009 8:42am

bout tree fiddy.

jimbling · 27-04-2009 9:54am

I lost around $800 yesterday.

Came close to it been a lot more though. Brand new €1500 laptop in hand and heading out the upstairs window. Just about gained control. I did damage the screen all right when I threw a beer bottle top at it

Treehouse72 · 27-04-2009 10:35am

I'm up before rent, down after it.

Aedh Baclamh · 27-04-2009 10:43am

Down lots over the years I'd imagine.

El Stuntman · 27-04-2009 11:26am

up in monetary terms

but in terms of life-enhancement, I'd imagine I'm down overall

TripleAce · 27-04-2009 12:09pm

Up 8k € online in 2009 so far mainly playing SNG, with biggest tournament win of only 800€. I will never win a proper MTT, although I usually go deep I always find a way to blow it in the end, I probably lack gambling/aggression in the late stages of the tourneys although I am slowly improving.

The latest book I read "Poker Mindset" has been the key in preventing me from tilting my wins away during downswings.

Boosh · 27-04-2009 12:45pm

I'm up about 3 stone this year.

jpr1973 · 27-04-2009 4:30pm

up 2.5k at 20nl & 50 nl poker and down 1k at horse racing

Hank Scorpio · 27-04-2009 4:39pm

up about 820$ over the past month playing alot of hands super tight at micro limits. Decided to withdraw yesterday and go hunting a good rakeback deal.

RichieLawlor · 27-04-2009 4:46pm

nuxxx wrote: »

up about 820$ over the past month playing alot of hands super tight at micro limits. Decided to withdraw yesterday and go hunting a good rakeback deal.

Up 1 mirrion dollar from poker

Down 1 appendix

Donagh_mc · 27-04-2009 4:51pm

Up and down like a yoyo lately! Started at €500, went up to €1100 and now down to €200

Ps: I might have added an extra 0 to all my figures to sound as impressive as the rest of ye!

lol

mdwexford · 27-04-2009 4:53pm

RichieLawlor wrote: »

Up 1 mirrion dollar from poker

Down 1 appendix

Enough with the sympathy spamming you donk, sign yourself out for Punchestown tomorrow and stop being a pussy.

applehunter · 27-04-2009 5:09pm

Up live.

Started playing mostly Omaha online since November/December. First couple of months I was a big loser. Getting the hang of it now.

But still losing overall

gorrrr72 · 28-04-2009 12:16am

Playing online around 4 years and live about 3 & a half.

Currently experimenting with turbo $10 sng's with an overall profit of $1100 in about 400 games.
Also play $10 rebuy or $10 freezout around 10 times a week. The sng profit pays for this. Biggest cash online was $3250 which I used to play in IO but didn't cash. Also qualified and played in IWF but didn't cash.
Overall live I'm about even, taking into consideration minus €3500 for the IO ticket.
Online profit 5k in around 10 months. Before that, down around 100 per month in over 3 years.
Was playing 1/2NL 9 or 10 handed 3 tables at a time on Full Tilt, Betfair and PPP built up an 8k BR and cashed 3400 out. Started a wicked downswing and lost 75% of it so lost confidence, stopped playing online cash. Back to $10 sng's and small stakes tournies and sats.

P.S. sorry about the rambling post. Tired, going to bed.

dougee19 · 28-04-2009 12:35am

first 3 years online altogether, around 12k downswing....
grinding away now

im up over 4k this year from $5-$20 sng's and I missed a month. I do play a sick amount of games though

Suited · 28-04-2009 12:27pm

I was about to give up on poker until I discovered proper bankroll managment(you tube- Chris Ferguson). I got $10 free for opening a VC account, I added $40 to the account and started playing $1 SNGs, I have gotten this up to $1100 since I started the 'experiment' in Dec, and I'm now playing €22 SNGs and MTTs. I have never withdrawn or re loaded.

I can't stress how brilliant proper bankroll managment is and it really has made me a better poker player. There have been times where I have had to move down, but I have never had any fear of going broke which has really helped my game. I'm now at the point of possibly withdrawing small ammounts per week although I'm not in any rush.

Flushdraw · 28-04-2009 12:41pm

dougee19 wrote: »

im up over 4k this year from $5-$20 sng's and I missed a month. I do play a sick amount of games though

Thats impressive after 3 months. Would love to see a graph

lillou · 28-04-2009 1:38pm

i'm up over $7 since i started.

which means dinner for two at burger king (recession buster meals only)

Wombatman · 28-04-2009 1:59pm

Flushdraw wrote: »

Thats impressive after 3 months. Would love to see a graph

Should be easy enough. A nice ROI of 25% would mean staking 16000. Avg stake excluding reg. is $10 so you only need to play 18 or so games every day over 90 days.

I'd still like to see the graph though. What site is it?

CL7 · 28-04-2009 2:10pm

Up about $800 overall. Built up my br playing sit and go's and a tourney here and there. Started $10nl 6 max a few months ago and I'm up $187 from that. At Uni at the moment so hope to be up a lot more at the end of the summer.

bob_loblaw_86 · 29-04-2009 5:54pm

RedJoker wrote: »

bout tree fiddy.

its the dom loch ness monster again

max_power · 29-04-2009 6:14pm

Wombatman wrote: »

Should be easy enough. A nice ROI of 25% would mean staking 16000. Avg stake excluding reg. is $10 so you only need to play 18 or so games every day over 90 days.

I'd still like to see the graph though. What site is it?

25% roi? even dougee couldn't achieve that over a large sample imo

miju · 29-04-2009 6:42pm

Suited wrote: »

I was about to give up on poker until I discovered proper bankroll managment(you tube- Chris Ferguson). I got $10 free for opening a VC account, I added $40 to the account and started playing $1 SNGs, I have gotten this up to $1100 since I started the 'experiment' in Dec, and I'm now playing €22 SNGs and MTTs. I have never withdrawn or re loaded.

I can't stress how brilliant proper bankroll managment is and it really has made me a better poker player. There have been times where I have had to move down, but I have never had any fear of going broke which has really helped my game. I'm now at the point of possibly withdrawing small ammounts per week although I'm not in any rush.

just listened to that podcast. was quite interesting alright. think i am gonna give his method a try for the next month and see how it goes. will report back then

Doc Farrell · 29-04-2009 7:50pm

down 4k this year but haven't been playing much, maybe 100 hours.

i think if i really put the work in i can push my loserate to about 60 euro an hour.

wish me luck!

(still up a few quid over the last few years but thats all spent now on girls with relatively big arses)

gorrrr72 · 29-04-2009 9:24pm

UsernameGames PlayedAv. ProfitAv. StakeAv. ROITotal ProfitFormNetworkFilterxxxxxxx 70$49 $14 150%$3,454 -iPokerSch. Only x

tried to copy and paste from sharkscope. Cant get a graph to paste into reply.

Tight Ted · 30-04-2009 11:51am

Up in poker. But massive loser in sports gambling.

dougee19 · 30-04-2009 4:01pm

max_power wrote: »

25% roi? even dougee couldn't achieve that over a large sample imo

hehehe, even dougee... people actually think i'm good now?

how much would you consider a large sample?
can honestly say my roi isn't that high but it is around the 20 mark, and 28% in my last 750 games on stars which is pretty decent imo... and would have been higher if it wasnt for the 6man games

I will post graphs if really wanted, spread out over 3 sites i think

thenutpeddler · 30-04-2009 4:10pm

Up a substantial amount from playing live.

Down about 2k online last year.

If I had a breathalyzer on my laptop I'd be up about 6k

5starpool · 30-04-2009 4:28pm

In the last 4 years I have a ROI of 32% in live tournies, but an ROI of -1% in live cash. Online, who knows. I don't play enough to keep records so don't really care. Not much either way I'd imagine though.

dougee19 · 30-04-2009 4:49pm

5starpool wrote: »

In the last 4 years I have a ROI of 32% in live tournies, but an ROI of -1% in live cash. Online, who knows. I don't play enough to keep records so don't really care. Not much either way I'd imagine though.

that made me lol!!!!

surely its a hell of a lot easier to keep track online... sorry, i "lol" at weird things i guess

5starpool · 30-04-2009 5:08pm

I rarely play online so don't bother trying to track across multiple sites. I'd say I play at least 10x more live than online.

destroyer · 30-04-2009 10:02pm

Playing 4 years, Live about once a week (mostly tournaments, a little cash) Up almost 14k.

On-line down about 500, despite winning 2 donkaments with fields of 1800 to 2000, (about 4k total) , am a donkey on line, especially cash games.

El Stuntman · 01-05-2009 7:52am

Doc Farrell wrote: »

down 4k this year but haven't been playing much, maybe 100 hours.

i think if i really put the work in i can push my loserate to about 60 euro an hour.

wish me luck!

(still up a few quid over the last few years but thats all spent now on girls with relatively big arses)

relative to what exactly Doc?

how much do you make / lose from poker?

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