Originally Posted by
Pokerjoe
I have had no job since 1987, and have earned a middle-class SoCal wife-and-kids life since then entirely from gambling. But that's amazingly rare, tbh. Most pros are
a) good but not great players who went on a monster rush, usually in tournies, and got a BR and name from that and now survive on sponsorship deals
b) are single, workingclass grinders who aren't too happy because they don't have a whole life, they only have poker and poker friends, and they're sitting in cardrooms 60 hours a week.
Have a whole life. Whether you're selling insurance, teaching middle school math, sitting in an office cubicle, or gambling, have a whole life.
A hundred hours a month of poker is fulltime to me. More than that and my misery index skyrockets. If I'd wanted a skyrocketing misery index I'd have lived a square's life.
BTW, borednaz makes good points ITT.