We're here.

For myself, I was a full-time player back before Black Friday. I was a few months or a few wins away from being forced to think about going full-time pro. Black Friday made that decision for me and I've since moved on with my life. I've played nothing but casual home games in the last several years.

Then, I randomly found a JCarver video on YouTube. He was entertaining and I knew the subject material well enough so I watched a ton of them. Then, he moved to Twitch and poker got its own category on the Directory. Finally, I found out about Bovada.

I'm precisely what OP was talking about. I have enough knowledge and muscle memory (easily 300k hands of experience) that I can sit at a fish pond and pull money out but I don't have enough drive or need to actually move up to stakes that would be meaningful. I don't want this as a job any more. I was forced to find something else and I found something I like.

So, now, I play 5NL or 10NL on Bovada while I watch Twitch or Netflix. I used to play 100NL. I enter $1-$3 MTTs when I used to play up to $50 regularly and also took shots in the Sunday Million regularly. My first day on Bovada was a Saturday. I entered nine tourns, cashed three and final tabled one. I net $4 on it.

The OP is wrong about one thing though. I'm really not looking to improve any more. I've made my peace with being a working stiff. Poker is fun when there's a few bucks on the line but I'm just as happy playing any of the other games in my Steam library. I could probably hold my own in 25NL or even 100NL on Bovada but why should I? I don't need the income and so any RoR, however small, is pointless.