How much would it take to NEVER play poker again?

[keilan303]

3 x What I've lost

[Ironside]

i zm rethinking the amount for me

i would like to live an even more comfy life

if i was to quit poker and be able to do enough stuff to fill the void poker would create

so i would need 2k a day for the rest of my life (index linked) so about £15 million

[Woodsey]

Enough to buy my next house mortgage free, so maybe 400k ish. Having said that if somebody turned up with 100k on my doorstep now, I'd find it hard to say no.

[Longy]

It is interesting how the grinders on this thread would take less than the recreational players.

[Pab]

Ha, It would probably be something ike £2-3m so i could sort out all my family and still have enough left just to play call of duty and eat take-aways for the next 40 yrs

[Ironside]

It is interesting how the grinders on this thread would take less than the recreational players.

you would expect that the grinders are doing it to earn a wage to live off
the hobby players are doing for something to provide relief from our lives

i am struggling to think of what i would fill my life with if i gave up gambling
without a serious amount of money might be different if i was still young and fit

[EvilPie]

This topic is starting to get interesting.....

A question to all the people who have number's of £200k or more.....

Is this because you expect to make at least £200k playing poker so want compensating or is it because you love the game so much that's it's genuinely worth that amount of money to you?

Tank's, MC's and Longy's answers are interesting. All 3 are grinders who make a steady living playing poker and their figures are based around being able to quit and do something else instead. BAM has done similar as he would obviously need £5.89 to offset what he might win by sticking with the game for the foreseeable future.

Kev and Boldie have clearly just picked a sum that would be nice to get as a one off and a slightly realistic figure. This is the sort of figure that I'd be happy with too.

Are other people's answers just based on greed or is there a real reason?

[Ironside]

my reason is that i need the money to fill the hole that giving up poker would create

my life revolves round poker as its the one thing i can do where i am at an equal with everyone else


if i wasnt in the chair i would accept a much lower sum as i could use my time doing things like golf
and hill walking moutain climbing canoeing scuba diving etc etc

[Colchester Kev]

Ha, It would probably be something ike £2-3m so i could sort out all my family and still have enough left just to play call of duty and eat take-aways for the next 40 yrs

Why take a pay cut Pab ??

[GreekStein]

This topic is starting to get interesting.....

A question to all the people who have number's of £200k or more.....

Is this because you expect to make at least £200k playing poker so want compensating or is it because you love the game so much that's it's genuinely worth that amount of money to you?

Tank's, MC's and Longy's answers are interesting. All 3 are grinders who make a steady living playing poker and their figures are based around being able to quit and do something else instead. BAM has done similar as he would obviously need £5.89 to offset what he might win by sticking with the game for the foreseeable future.

Kev and Boldie have clearly just picked a sum that would be nice to get as a one off and a slightly realistic figure. This is the sort of figure that I'd be happy with too.

Are other people's answers just based on greed or is there a real reason?

I wouldn't do it for less than half a mil because I love the game soooo fking much. Any less won't mean a lot to me one day.

[vegaslover]

£100k

[MC]

I've been grinding a lot recently, which definitely isn't "fun", but then again I bet I enjoy it a lot more than doing something else for that duration/intensity.

I do love the game, Dan Carter told me that me and Stu Rutter talk about poker more than any other player he knows.

But on the odd occasion I do feel like I'm pissing my life away and could be doing something more worthwhile. I used to love being a hip-hop MC (hence the name) but I haven't recorded a song in like 3 years because poker has just taken over everything. It took over Uni and I've done bugger all towards becoming a Primary School teacher which is still on the cards for me in the future I think.

So £200k, which is more than I'll be realistically be able to make from the game in the next few years seems like a decent line. I might get the shakes though for the first few days, lol.

[Junior Senior]

depends what mood i am in.  Right now.... £5K but give me an hour and i'll be back up to about £750k.

I don't know why so high, i f**ing hate this stupid game!

[ViiperUK]

99p so i could go to mcdonalds and buy a cheeseburger tbh

[Ironside]

99p so i could go to mcdonalds and buy a cheeseburger tbh

ok i'll stake u the burger