Starting Out

[ThOmMo]

Just introducing myself in here. Im well into poker and have been reading and watching about it for years and years. I haven't played as much as I would have liked to be honest but im going to start soon. Just registered with ladbrokes and they run alot of nice freerolls so going to start out there and try and build something from nothing to start with. Does anyone on here actually make a living from playing poker then, it seems a lot of people make it pay these days, even online???

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Re: Starting Out

Does anyone on here actually make a living from playing poker then, it seems a lot of people make it pay these days, even online???

I think there are many players on here who make a steady profit, though not make a living (but check out the mole). If you take the game seriously, work at it, and have some aptitude, I don't think it's that hard to make a nice amount of pocket money at the lower levels. But it doesn't scale like other kinds of betting: if you're betting on horses or football, you could multiply your stakes by 10 and win 10 times as much (so long as you don't run into bookies' limits). But in poker, if you multiply your stakes by 10, you'll run into far better opponents. Others may disagree, but I think it would be hard to make a living at it unless you were prepared to spend huge amounts of time playing (far more than I'd be able to play and still enjoy it) or are very talented.