I'm in a similar situation to what Eat the Flesh wants to be in. I'm basically a beginner, but poker is at the moment my only source of income. There are a few important points here though:

- I live in Estonia, where the cost of living is a bit lower, and wages are MUCH lower. I'm aiming at $40 a day quad tabling $10NL, which was the income of my previous job. This is hard, but I think possible. In any case I should be able to do it once I move up to $25NL.

- I don't NEED to win this to survive at the moment. I would just be doing nothing if I wasn't doing this, because I don't feel like working right now.

I know you guys think it's a bit silly, but of course it's possible. And for me my situation makes the experiment a worthwhile risk. It may be the same for our friend.

Anyway, Eat the Flesh, if you're still reading this thread, here's my advice:

Nobody can really tell you a strategy that will work. Read AOKs 19 hands posts, try that, and see how you go. You'll end up developing your own strategy, and hopefully that will work.

To find out if you're strategy is working, get poker tracker.

Once you've got a basic idea for strategy, the rest is experience.

I'm trying playing very tight pre-flop and then very aggressive post flop, and just hope that there are silly people who want to call with low kickers or draws with very bad odds, and nobody has flopped a set. It's worked for a few thousand hands. I seem to get people all in with top pair low kicker, or nothing, often enough. If I find over more hands it's not working I'll change something, and I know it certainly won't work at higher limits, so I'll have to adapt.

So, if you don't need the money to survive, then play ring games for a while and develop a little bit of a style that seems to work, then go for it. Just don't be too displeased when you find it's not working and you have to go back to 9-5 at the office.

Me, I'm going to keep at it for a while. If nothing else it's giving me a bit of freedom, and it's a fun thing to try.