When you decide to start the daily poker grind by playing online poker for a living you need to ask yourself some hard questions. One of the most important questions is whether your bankroll can support your new online grinding lifestyle. It used to be in the old days that a grinder would need a substantial initial bankroll before they could seriously consider the poker lifestyle. They needed a big initial boost to pay for the big expenses that come up right away, like buy ins. Brick and mortar casinos were particularly notable for these big initial expenses because they needed the high stakes profits to fund their overhead costs. In the new poker online world, however, some of these expectations have changed. You don’t really have to have a huge bankroll anymore to start your life as a grinder. When you grind online, you can take advantage of microstakes to slowly build your bankroll. As long as you have enough put aside to pay for your daily expenses you should be fine. Slowly build your bankroll through small stakes and you still soon have enough to actually earn an income off of poker. While a self sustaining poker life has always been the goal of grinders, modern players have a lot more options about how to get there.