Can it be done

[jimmym]

The thought of playing poker online full time as a living is not everyones cup of tea, but a thought that really sounds nice to me and my wife.
Due to our work commitments I really only play socially and at this stage too much and many little tournaments, and because I work permanent nights 10pm-6am I miss most of the bigger events.

Making a decision to pack in a job with a guaranteed income of £28.000 per year to play online poker would be stupid unless I knew I would atleast match that loss of steady income.

I have had a few brief discusions with a few players online and have been given some advice, last night an online player who plays full time told me that my first year is the year I could really build and should not make a loss if investing correctly and playing with bonuses and re-loads and ofcourses placing and winning in a few reasonable tournies.

Can this be done? playing 5 nights a week for around 8 hours per night at different sites? and with $10.000 to invest.

I am looking around searching different sites looking at sign on bonuses ect and there are so many it must be possible or is it?

Any advice would be helpful apart from the advice that says dont do it. I am planning on a date of 01 January 2007 but would delay but to no later than 2008.

If you guys could do this were would you start spreading the money around just to pick up the bonuses ect, I would be looking to gain maximum bonuses so how hard and realistic is it.

TPs lists of sites are excellent, but I feel by talking to other online players that there is something extra to be gained by maximising the outlay when joining these sites.

Any info will be great from you guys and I would really like some from TP if possible when he gets back.

When I do decide to do this I will throw a private tourny for our forums members as a way of saying thankyou.