I started out wanting to move up a level a month, which is very possible with a decent win rate at 25-30,000 hands/mo and rakeback. It's been 3 months and I've moved up twice, so I'm a little behind, but I feel like I have been improving a lot. Each move up, twice for 50nl, has been accompanied by a combo of bad play and running bad for at least 10,000 hands. The goal is to have a decent win rate at 100nl or 200nl by September, when my current lease expires.
Aside from that I have several options. Live at my parents while working part time and commuting to school. If I'm winning at a nice rate at 200nl I could live off that in Denton and try to get a part time job or something. My mom also knows a guy with his own IT company who is just working for himself at the moment but wants to expand. He had mentioned somewhere in the area of 25-30/hr, but this doesn't really seem like it's ever going to happen because it's been at least 1.5 months since he mentioned the idea.
The third option is to move to Austin with my staker, who is moving into a place with a poker friend of his at the end of July. He dropped the idea to me when he first staked me and we've talked a little more about it since. He and I would share a room, I know it seems kinda gay and sucks, but I did it when I first moved out, and I wouldn't have to pay any rent for a few months. It would definately be a grind playing at least 30 hours a week, but at 200nl I'd be making a lot more than I am anyway. It's a long shot but it's what keeps me going while pushing papers around at work all day.
