I've done Carbon freeroll after Carbon freeroll for several years now. Most of these tourneys are a $50 pot, and have anywhere from 2800 to 5000 players. I make the final 2 or 3 tables in these tourneys over and over, and have won 1st once, and finshed in the top 5 countless times. Honestly, sometimes I just donk at the begining for about 3 hands, then play and pay attention, if I was lucky and I have the spare time to focus. Somehow, Carbon gives me two and a half bronze stars, which I don't know what that means or have the remotest clue what good it'll ever do for me. Furthermore, I know I prolly can't even ever cash out my little balance there, because I live in Louisiana, USA. But I grinded away online for the sake of live tourney practice and tactics, learning and improving my playing skills, and really do enjoy the hell out of online action.
So, I go to the Ameristar Casino in Vicksburg Mississippi and play a $70 buy in, Thursday night tourney, almost every week. There are usually 40-50 players. First place is usually $1000 or more, and the tourney always pays 7 places. I usually win or chop, and it's documented, I finish in the money almost every time. This is been happening since sometime in 2010. It's a matter of record at the Ameristar. Here in Louisiana, I occasionally go on Sunday morning, to the Eldorado Casino in Shreveport, La... There, a $200 buy in gets you into a tourney that's usually 6 or 7 tables. 1st is always close to $3000, and it generally pays 10 or more places. These are the real opportunities here for the tourney player where I live. Vicksburg is 100 miles one direction, and Shreveport 100 the other way. There are plenty of cash games available, even close to home, but that's not what I love to play. I love to win tourneys and SNG's. I can manage to earn $4 to $5k per month whenever I'll go play 6 or 7 tourneys. These are the facts for me about the legal opportunity, and my poker game, here in this neck of the woods.
Now, if online goes legal in Nevada, I wonder if I should move out there and make poker my fulltime livelyhood. It almost is now... Hmmmmm.... Just Sayin'..... Think about it. How is it really, for you?