If you are new to counting, just get a job and forget about it.
Then maybe when you are set in life, have a good financial standing, house, car that won't need to be replaced in a good while, come back to counting.
I have been told you need $10k to start playing and making about $10 / hr. I was like, ah to hell with that. I'm gunna hit the game with my measly br. Lets just say the Indians have most of it now, and it didn't take them long to get it. And I'm back to where I should have just started...having a job.