At what point is poker > average salary job?

I'm 20 and never held a regular job in my life. I'm currently playing 6tables of 1/2-2/4 for about 3-4 hours a day. Since I've never held a regular job before, I don't know what a standard job pays (say, a random cubicle job). I've ****ed up in school and have no aspirations to go to grad school or snatch a high paying job. I always thought making $100/hr was well above average but I keep hearing that's not really the case anymore. Anyways, at what stakes and winrate do you guys think someone can make a decent living (decent I define as being able to afford a house and supporting a family of 4)?

It's good that I started with this post. It has two very common themes in poker player's post: brag and value of the dollar.

First, he's showing off to the community that he makes 100/hr and secondly he's saying that he's heard that 200k a year is no longer average. So either he's an idiot or pretending to be an idiot just so he can brag. The value of bragging is so high that he is willing to look like an idiot in order to look good as a winning $100/hr poker player.

Below is my reponse to him (on page 6). I try not to be mean most of the time.


i know OP didn't mean to sound arrogant, but it sure comes off as it. thousands of ppl would cut their left testicle off to make that much an hour.

it's almost like coming in here and saying, sorry guys, i only make 1 million dollars a year, will that be enough? i'm not sure, i heard it's become average. i heard you need at least 3 servants these days.

if you believe, like what you say, and "2/4 is an endless pool of fish" then you are getting 0 stress playing it. you enjoy poker, you work from home (easy to take care of your 4 children, no rush hour traffic). you pick your own hours. and you can always add 1-2 hours more if you're in the need of some money.

i'd rather 10 hours of poker than 8 hours of any other job (if you include commute time, for some ppl it take an hour to get to work so they are wasting 2 hours of not getting paid anyway).

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