Recent readers of Pokersharkpool will have missed my challenge last year to show that a player with little bankroll could make a living wage playing NLHE cash games. Just to fill in recent readers, I made $25/hour multi-tabling NL50 full-ring games over 75k hands.
When you spend most of the time folding then this isn’t difficult to do and I had a good 33% rakeback deal to facilitate that. I couldn’t stay motivated due to the low stakes although I had been playing 25-50 NL at the time so switching from $25-$50 to $0.25-$50 messes with your mind.
Funnily enough I am now playing far lower than what I did in 2008/2009 so I am probably in the mindset to make this work. I think that I could have made $35/hour+ had I been focused. Regular readers will recall that I dubbed this system “The Vulture” because it fed off the carcases of low-stakes novices who were coming into the game at the bottom.
Also I haven’t got the time or the inclination to sit at my desk playing poker for 40 hours/week but if I did and I could retain motivation then I think The Vulture could have produced $1000/$1500 playing 8 tables. I even think $2000/week is possible although a little extreme for most.
$1000/week though is certainly possible and this is about £600/week NET. For a forty hour week then that equates to £15/hour which would be something along the lines of £25/hour if you were in a job and paying tax and NI on that.
I was supposed to be getting The Vulture into print last year but never got around to doing it. However I will be starting my 6-max NLHE system shortly which I am calling “The Jackal” and once again I will be starting at NL50. I haven’t played four tables at 6-max before (or at least I cannot remember doing it) so I will have to feel myself in.
I will not be increasing or decreasing levels, the test is to try and see how I do and how much I make playing NL50 on a per table per hour basis. I have often said that more and more poker players should experiment by playing more tables than moving up a level as a means of making more money.
But Pokersharkpool will be expanding this year and I want to make The Jackal part of that expansion. Now all I have to do is find at least 10 hours a week to play poker on top of everything else. Speaking of poker, I played two mixed sessions at NHLE heads up. Won $400 from a very good player and left only to then lose three buy-ins at $200 PLO so a net loss of $200 but still a great start to 2010 results wise.
So keep a look out for The Jackal and I am hoping to start it this week.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson
