CAn you make a living strictly at tournament play?

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Rx. Senior
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No

But for those who can, they could make even more if they also played cash games
 

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In poker that is?

If you can create enough backers to fly you to your tournament locations and pay for your lodging and food, then probably yes.
 

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tournys are so much luck, which is why you see a guy make a big score and then next thing ya know the dude is broke 2 years later. Its very difficult to have any type of consistency even if you play really well. You are going to need to get lucky many times.

If you are looking into poker I would strongly suggest cash games
 

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Its all about the numbers....its still gambling. A good tourny player should win (i read this somewhere, i dont remember the theory or facts behind it) that is come in 1st place 1 time out of every 250 MTTs he enters on avg. So you get a guy who plays 3 and wins his 3rd 1 then he is set for a good long while.....But that doesnt mean he is any better player than a guy who is currently 0-249. depending on the number of other finishes between them if the 0-249 guy wins his next tourny they will be about even in profits. But how many players can go 249 without winning 1 and not go broke? Prolly very few if any. So the key to making a profit and a living is winning early in your career.

By the way most professional cash game players dont go anywhere near tournys and think tourny players are the biggest fish to be found. Alot of guys do both but few are really profitable at it. 2 entirely different ways of playing poker...
 

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