No, don't do it

TBH, you probably don't have the experience to be professional poker player. Your stats on stars & Tilt are marginal at best.

Do you have 6 to 12 months living expenses saved up? If you don't have a sizable playing bank roll to start you will not be able to pay for your expenses from your bank roll until you are very deep.

I don't know what your economic status is compared to other in your locality, but making enough to pay for entertainment on the weekends is not what being a professional poker player is about.

What is your business plan for making a living playing poker. If you have $2500.00 to play $16 to $30 SNGs; what is your back-up plan when you hit a 100 buy-in down swing.

You have to put in tons of volume at 4% to 6% ROI to make it anywhere profitable enough to make a living out of poker. Being a professional poker player is a job. You are your own boss. You don't play - you don't get paid. You don't win (win a lot) - you don't get paid. You don't get paid; then you are not a professional poker player.

Play poker until you are killing the games and making enough so you don't have to ask strangers on a forum about your decision.

If you become a professional, good for you. You need to learn about the business of poker.

if you wanna do this for a living you're crazy.

keep grindin and w8 untill all the regulation stuff is figured out ....

Well, he's from Argentina. I don't think he's worried about USA legislation unless he's attending school in the USA.

You are completely out of your mind. Grinding $16 9-man turbo S&Gs is a miserable existence. There is nothing exciting about it because you will never have days when you make a big score, unlike MTTs. I have done it before and it quickly becomes so boring that you dread logging on and putting in the hours. You will inevitably burn out. I see that you live in Argentina so if I am not mistaken your cost of living isn't as high as in Canada or the US and I'm guessing that jobs pay less than here too, so poker for a living in itself is not a bad idea, but if you choose to go the $16 9-man turbo S&G robot multi-tabling route you will quickly burn out while looking around you realizing that you no longer have a social life.

 

Originally Posted by Mindthis

p.s. You make tons of grammar and spelling mistakes when you write. Even though this has got nothing to do with poker, I believe that to be a professional poker player you have to be some kind of crazy artist/genius, a well-rounded individual who has the potential to excel in many areas in life, not just poker. I am one. And I play poker for a living.

Dude lol. Just b/c his english isnt up to par w/ urs doesnt mean he cant crush poker. Its prolly his 3rd or 4th language. How many languages do you speak???? BTW have you ever seen one of lilholdem954's post? Chad was no William Faulkner . That kid was one of the longest #1's this site has ever seen. So much for that artistic/genius, well rounded individual arguement. HAHAHAH good 1 tho i lol'd.

OP anyone can call themselves a poker pro!
I can write 2 words in a book and call myself an author.
A true pro is someone that lives entirely on his poker winnings for shall we say 12 months & longer.
By the sound of it, your still attending the education system in Argentina, so you dont need to become pro yet.
Listen to what these guys on here tell you, because they know what their talking about.

This is a bit confusing. The definition of a Pro is doing it for a living. If you mean, should I just play tons and tons of poker and try to make money at it, then sure, why not, as long as you are enjoying it and have some kind of life outside of it. But if you really need to make $2,500 per month, then you should look into proper bankroll management to enable you to achive that based on your abi, roi, volume, bankroll etc. Hope that makes sense.

Just do it!!!!

you can always get a job

 

Originally Posted by White Lagoon

Thx CJDeman, yea i was wrong, i just mean obv to make money at it...2500usd per month will be great for me, how many buy ins should i have to play $16 16 tables 5 times a day, 9man turbo sitngo...¿?....obv i have a life outside of it...playing 5 sessiones a day it's no more than a total of 4..5 hours playing isnt it? i think on average they take 45minutes...any other advice CJ?

Ok so....i should try and see it poker choose me? that make sence 4 u?....im not choosing poker...i know i can beat those games and i can win on 16's for sure...poker have choosen me then?...nobody starts on higher stakes...why people tell me NO as the lvl is low...i can start grinding there and moving up...isnt it?

I am not qualified to give you advice on your bankroll, but there are plenty of articles on here....I am sure you can do some math on how much you need to play. Lets say you play 25 days per month, so you want to make $100 per day. If your ABI is $16 and your ROI is 6%, then you need to play 104 SNGs per day. That would be 5 sesssions os 21 SNGs on each. Personally that sounds soul destroying to me, but its up to you...I am sure there are people out there playing more than that.

And obviously play at the level you can win it. Why make 1% at $27 if you can make 6% at $16.

 

Originally Posted by CJDeman

I am not qualified to give you advice on your bankroll, but there are plenty of articles on here....I am sure you can do some math on how much you need to play. Lets say you play 25 days per month, so you want to make $100 per day. If your ABI is $16 and your ROI is 6%, then you need to play 104 SNGs per day. That would be 5 sesssions os 21 SNGs on each. Personally that sounds soul destroying to me, but its up to you...I am sure there are people out there playing more than that.

And obviously play at the level you can win it. Why make 1% at $27 if you can make 6% at $16.

Yea sure, but im confident enough knowing my true game...and im think im sure i can make 100$ a day during 25 days by playing $16 x 16 tables 5 or less times a day...it's $20 per session if i do it 5 times a day...isnt that much i have had 100%roi under 16$ x 16 tables by winning between 220 to 260 on a session...not ev day, not so easy, but i either have done that just for once...obv i made many more session profit for $50 to $100 than those...but im experienced and i think i can do it...why not?

 

Originally Posted by thefuture021

I say go for it, but I also slow down and gawk at car accidents, so take that fwiw.

Gawkers suck! Put your eyes back on the road.

:P

Love the avatar...I laugh every time I see that commercial.