So I got a nice little booklet from the Taj last week with some comps and a free room because last time I was there playing poker, my friend ran up some comp with my card playing BJ. And right now I'm so fed up with online poker and I have no idea what the future holds that I really want to start playing live.

Here are the facts. I live about an hour and 20 minutes from AC, the nearest legitimate B&M card rooms. There are other games closer that I know about, but they're slightly fishy. So I gotta assume that going down there is going to cost me gas, food, and the occasional room when I play so long that I'm too exhausted to come home. So I figure $30 for gas each time, maybe $20 average for food figuring I may get some comp and sometimes not, add maybe $40 on average for maybe needing somewhere to sleep every 3 or 4x out. That's $90 and I guess you can add $10 for parking or whatever.
So figuring I'm going to have close to $100 in expenses on average each time out, what limits should I start at (Limit or NL) where I can expect to make at least some kind of profit after expenses, rake, tips and how much of a bankroll do I need to start?

Before I assume that you have the same options in AC that I have in Nor. Cal. - Northern Nevada, what games and limits are offered? How much live experience do you have?

I've played many tournaments live, only cash games twice.
1 - $2/$4 limit vs a bunch of drunks. I won $80.
2 - $1/$2 NL vs a bunch of over-aggressive donks. I won $125.

Those are the lowest games I've seen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I've seen lower limit games run 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 5/10, 6/12 depending on where you go. NL I've seen 1/2 and then 2/5.

So I'm probably looking at needing at least $3-4K to get started at 5/10 limit?