11-22-2002, 03:56 PM
One poster asked "Where do the Pros Live"... well geographically... wherever there are games.
A more germaine question might be, "How do they live". I mean to say, can't exactly get a mortgage with the occupation "Gambler".
Heck, probably couldn't if you said, "At home day trader" either.
So do they all live in trailers in Summerlin or over there off the strip??? In weekly rent motels?
'course if you wealthy enough or have a day job, no problems I suppose. But is a rich player really a pro?
I mean to say, if you're a "trust fund pro" aren't you really a hobbyist, even if you are winning at a good rate?
And if you have the day job, chances are it's not a great one, so where's the life there? Though I did meet
a pro or two claiming to be trained by R. Greider who owned an accounting practice. The claim there was also that between the two of them they were earning an extra 20K a year at 1-5 stud. Hmm... seems a bit high... even at $5 an hour win rate. They'd have each had to play about 2000 hrs a year. Now how
could a full time accountant do that on top of running a firm?
Sincerely,
Frank
A more germaine question might be, "How do they live". I mean to say, can't exactly get a mortgage with the occupation "Gambler".
Heck, probably couldn't if you said, "At home day trader" either.
So do they all live in trailers in Summerlin or over there off the strip??? In weekly rent motels?
'course if you wealthy enough or have a day job, no problems I suppose. But is a rich player really a pro?
I mean to say, if you're a "trust fund pro" aren't you really a hobbyist, even if you are winning at a good rate?
And if you have the day job, chances are it's not a great one, so where's the life there? Though I did meet
a pro or two claiming to be trained by R. Greider who owned an accounting practice. The claim there was also that between the two of them they were earning an extra 20K a year at 1-5 stud. Hmm... seems a bit high... even at $5 an hour win rate. They'd have each had to play about 2000 hrs a year. Now how
could a full time accountant do that on top of running a firm?
Sincerely,
Frank