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Originally Posted by Subby
Great thread, great idea. You said you were going to play 30 hours per week - how does that schedule break down? How many hours at a time? What is your max time limit for a session?
What are your expenses related to poker? What is the transportation (gas + parking) cost and the food cost (do you get comped by the casino)?
Grinding out 30 hours per week seems like a lot, particularly after sitting another 40 hours per week at a computer desk job. Your body can break down quickly. What are you doing to keep that from happening?
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Here is my rough outline of my schedule:
Thursday 6:00 PM - 2:00 AM
Thursday's are usually pretty good because the tourists start arriving from out of town early and they still have money to play poker with. But, if there is not a $2/5 game going, then the players from out of town who normally play $2/5 will play in the $1/3 game which makes for a pretty interesting dynamic.
Friday 8:00 PM - 6:00 AM
I am still thinking of tweaking this one. I may go down right after work instead of going home and taking a nap first. As you saw in the previous post, there is no sense in staying in a late night game unless it is a very good game where I don't have to make a lot of complex decisions.
Saturday 2:00 PM - 2:00 AM
This is another one I may tweak as well. I need to see how good the games are during the day on Saturday. That is also when most tournaments are going in Tunica, so many fish are playing in those.
It takes about 4 gallons of gas to the casino and back. Right now gas is about $3.10, so a little over $12. There is no parking cost. I can get comped with a buffet, snack bar, or an excellent Asian place. The problem is I hate eating at the poker table. I am not a germaphobe by any means, but I think the casino chips are pretty nasty.
Thirty hours is going to be a commitment and to be honest I have not done it yet. Not having any kids is a huge plus and my wife seems to be on-board with it so far. Once I move to the $2-5 game, I plan to cut my hours back to 20 or 25 a week.
In an ideal world, I would have enough money to work at home on a college football start-up idea that I have. I could then adjust my sleep schedule and have no problems staying alert well into the night. We could afford to do it once we get everything paid off except our mortgage (doable in a year if this poker stuff works out), but it would be a pretty big risk to quit a cush job at a Fortune 100 company with solid pay and great benefits.