Just putting live poker into perspective. Let's say you get in 30 hands per hour, and play 50 hours per week. That's 1,500 hands per week or ~4,500 hands per month or 78,000 hands per year - with no vacation or slacking. Let's say you kill the game for 30 bb/100 (not sure if sustainable but I've hovered around 20ish and I definitely don't kill) that is $46,800 per year (2,600 hours total for $18 hourly rate). Not to mention we know that not all things go our way, especially during periods of thousands and even tens of thousands of hands. Live poker can make even the greatest poker players go criminally insane. If you think a downswing of 2 weeks in online poker is bad, imagine a span of 3 months, which is only 19,500 hands based on our numbers.
Making a living off of $1-$2 live is possible I guess, but shit I wouldn't want to do it.
It's 7am and I haven't slept, hope my math is right?
edit - math is fun. my new (correct) numbers make it not seem as bad tbh. but let's take a more realistic bb/100 of 15 bb/100. that's $23,400 per year and $9 per hour.
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