I was winning or placing in the money most of the time (casino sit-and-go and home tourneys) when I stopped around three years ago, but unless you're close by a casino and can pick and choose the best tournaments or times of day, or have very fat pockets to not get pushed around in no limit cash games, I can't imagine it's an easy way to make consistent money. As good as you might be, or as smart and patient as you're playing that day, bad beats will always happen. Or in cash games, there's multiple mediocre players at any table who are going to shove you off with ridiculous bets and you have to be able to lose thousands of dollars in one night and not have it wreck your finances. Casino no limit cash is just brutal, at least at the big casinos. Especially resort casinos. Played a bunch of no limit cash on my honeymoon in Aruba and it was some James Bond shit. I had one good night, but otherwise I was getting pushed off every good hand by people in white suits with their yachts parked outside.

One of the reasons I tapered down to barely playing is because playing good poker is boring. At least the way I played. I'd play some mediocre hands just to ward off the impression I'm only playing very good hands, but that's basically the truth. Fold, fold, fold.