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How long will it take someone to turn $10 into $10,000 playing online poker?

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Well, although you'd be short bankrolled, a good player could jump into the $1.20 tournaments at Pokerstars and achieve an ROI of about 20%. Each tournament takes about an hour and a half, so that comes out to about 16 cents per hour, per tournament. If you played 40 hours a week, 6 tournaments at a time, that's $38.40 a week.

After about 3 weeks, you'd have enough to play $5 tournaments instead of $1 tournaments. A good player can achieve about a 10% ROI at these tables, or .33 cents per tournament, per hour. Playing 6 tournaments at a time, 40 hours a week, that's $80 a week.

After another month or so, you'd have over $400, which is enough to play in $16 tournaments. A good player achieving an ROI of 5% would make 53 cents per tournament per hour at these tables. Playing 6 tournaments at a time 40 hours a week, that's $128 a week.

If you never moved up from these tables, and continued to play only 6 tables at once, you'd have $10,000 in a year and a half.

These numbers are a bit conservative, assuming you only play 6 tables at once, and don't play turbos (which go much faster), but they do presume you are skilled enough to win at each of these levels. A real player who could achieve these return rates would likely play more tables at once and achieve a higher return rate. You would also receive playing bonuses through rewards programs that could make you earn a bit faster.

But you get the idea. Going from $10 to $10,000 is completely possible, if you're skilled, disciplined, and diligent.

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ger2000 		depends how good ur
ur best bet is roulette at least it follows the rules of maths...

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jamsey 		Just a few hours if you go all in on every hand and win every hand. no problem.

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Davido 		Well, although you'd be short bankrolled, a good player could jump into the $1.20 tournaments at Pokerstars and achieve an ROI of about 20%. Each tournament takes about an hour and a half, so that comes out to about 16 cents per hour, per tournament. If you played 40 hours a week, 6 tournaments at a time, that's $38.40 a week.

After about 3 weeks, you'd have enough to play $5 tournaments instead of $1 tournaments. A good player can achieve about a 10% ROI at these tables, or .33 cents per tournament, per hour. Playing 6 tournaments at a time, 40 hours a week, that's $80 a week.

After another month or so, you'd have over $400, which is enough to play in $16 tournaments. A good player achieving an ROI of 5% would make 53 cents per tournament per hour at these tables. Playing 6 tournaments at a time 40 hours a week, that's $128 a week.

If you never moved up from these tables, and continued to play only 6 tables at once, you'd have $10,000 in a year and a half.

These numbers are a bit conservative, assuming you only play 6 tables at once, and don't play turbos (which go much faster), but they do presume you are skilled enough to win at each of these levels. A real player who could achieve these return rates would likely play more tables at once and achieve a higher return rate. You would also receive playing bonuses through rewards programs that could make you earn a bit faster.

But you get the idea. Going from $10 to $10,000 is completely possible, if you're skilled, disciplined, and diligent.

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armenece 		A couple of years!

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twocox 		If you were at a live person dealing you would have a better chance than against a poker machine that will take take your money!! The poker machines are rigged up!

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Davido 		Normally, I would ask how good you are, but if you are asking this question, you probably aren't very good.

People who are good at poker are usually smart. A smart person would not ask this question without offering some statistics about how good they are.

You won't be able to do it. I guarantee it.

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twocox 		A long long time. PDQ's answer pretty much sums it up. Chris Ferguson is arguably one of the greatest players ever, former World Champion, former World Heads Up Champion, numerous other awards and huge tournament cashes, and it took him 16 months. 16 months is exceptionally quick if you ask me.

You'll need a lot of patience and discipline :)

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cameron 		Possibly never, possibly in a week. Depends on your cards, skill etc.

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fullhouse 		It is possible to turn $10 into $10 000 playing poker, but very, very difficult.
Start playing the very smallest limits you can. If you're good enough you should slowly be able to build you're bankroll. When you're bankroll is big enough, move up to higher stakes. Cautious bankroll management is essentail if you're serious about making money at poker. Play stakes higher than you can afford and you WILL go bust, however good you are. You're bank roll needs to be big enough to support variance: the swings of bad luck which will occur. This site gives good advice on the sorts of stakes you should be playing depending on you're bankroll: http://www.thepokerbank.com/strategy/basic/bankroll-management/

If you're a very, very good player with a lot of time to devote to playing poker, you might conceivably turn $10 into $10,000 in a year, at the very minimum This is absurdly un-realistic however. Even if you're an exceptional player, you will probably take several years to reach $10,000. Most likely, you'll lose you're $10 within a few days of playing. Good luck anyway.

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twocox 		Chris Ferguson, one of the greatest poker players in the world, took 16 months to go from $0 to $10,000. It took him 7 months just to get up to a stable SIX dollars and Fifty cents! When he finally won a $104 tournament, it still took him another 7 months to work that up to $10,000.

So - I'll let you take it from there. Remember that this guy is one of the greatest poker players on the planet.

If I had to guess, I'd tell you it's never going to happen for you.

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jonbrown 		Lol!

I will tell you right now its not going to happen. If you want to make as much as your talking about. Your better of just saving your money and buying in about 600 or so starting a bankroll. If you start with 10 you get a paid beat your done. Then you will keep buying in between 10 and 100. However you will never have a decent bankroll this way and keep going on out and over.

Better just spending it on something else been playing online poker since 2002.

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smithy 		Professional player Chris Ferguson once did this. Started with tiny bankroll and played only the micro stakes games and tourneys. He did it for charity. It took him over a year to get to $10,000. If you are a professional player, you too could probably do it in a year, playing micro stakes. Otherwise, I don't know -- you might want to prepare for saying goodbye to your $10.

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