"Going Pro"

Originally Posted by dev

Going pro is as easy as quitting your job. Assuming you're an adult and capable of going broke and surviving the ordeal, fuck it. Take your shot. Learn your lesson.

This is soooooo wrong, but like you said it's just something you heard. There is so much more to it than "quit your job and see what happens", and the likelihood of succeeding with this approach depends heavily upon X.

Originally Posted by cowboyardee

$600/week is more than $360/week, so assuming your benefits at work suck, x is a non-factor. Or I guess you could say that if your added expenses (medical insurance and such) after quitting your job add up to less than $240/week, you should do it in a strictly financial sense.

There's much more to it than the strict math, DOUCY?[/quote]
This is precisely what I'm talking about.

You have no idea what it does to your life to go pro. Despite being something of a newbie to grinding online poker, I supported myself on poker for over a year. I went broke repeatedly and had some pretty sick swings of course but I didn't understand variance, etc. at the time. I didn't have any semblance of a schedule except that I knew certain really soft games were held on certain nights, and I even managed to miss those sometimes because I was drinking that morning before I went to bed at noon. Trust me on this one, a total lack of structure can't be understood unless you do it. The only way to know if you have the discipline to deal with that (or the only way to develop it if you don't) is to try.
Of course, I don't think many people here are as reckless as I was, so everyone will come up with their own "X", but whoever is going pro needs to figure that out, the rest of us can't do it for them.