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Becoming a professional player
I'm writing a research paper on becoming a professional poker player. I think it would be great if i could get some comments from people who have actaully made the change from a regular job to a professional player. My specific questions are: What is the largest adjustment you had to make? How do you manage your money? What are some unanticipated obsticles that you had to overcome? What is considered a good income playing professionaly? Any other comments that you would like to make would be great. Thanks guys.
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Re: Becoming a professional player
There are a TON of posts on this site about this topic. There are also a TON of articles on cardplayer.com. I think spending a few hours doing some research through this site and cardplayer.com will produce more than enough information to write your paper.
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Re: Becoming a professional player
It would be sweet if we could read what you write after your done.
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Re: Becoming a professional player
its sad but the majoity of what has been written about being a pro gambler is pure horseshit. Although there are a few real insightful people out there. The real pros have a traders mindset these are a real minority. the majority are at best idle rich and at worse compulsive gamblers scamming people in one way or another to make ends meet. A bunch are simply whoring on the myth of the pro gambler or expounding on past good luck or work in the "industry". the rest are simply waiting to get broke.
I know this aint sexy but it is the truth as Ive seen it. For the past ten years where I've derived a portion of my income from gaming online and in casino pits and cardrooms from LA. to NV. |
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Re: Becoming a professional player
What do name guys like Brunson, Chan, etc do during the times when they were tapped out to get a new BR? I mean most professional players don't have mainstream job skills...
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Re: Becoming a professional player
they played lower stakes poker, in SS it talks about when Doyle went bust he built his bankroll playing penny poker.
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Re: Becoming a professional player
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they played lower stakes poker, in SS it talks about when Doyle went bust he built his bankroll playing penny poker. [/ QUOTE ] Penny Bridge, I'm pretty sure.[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] |
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Re: Becoming a professional player
I mean most professional players don't have mainstream job skills..
Huh? All the ones I know had jobs, have degrees and were often successful at what they did. How you came up with this one, I have no idea, it's one of the stupidest things I've read in a while. Peace, Joe Tall |
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Re: Becoming a professional player
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I mean most professional players don't have mainstream job skills.. Huh? All the ones I know had jobs, have degrees and were often successful at what they did. How you came up with this one, I have no idea, it's one of the stupidest things I've read in a while. Peace, Joe Tall [/ QUOTE ] You are basically stating that the people you know were semi pros, since they had jobs. My question relates to full time pros who were always gamblers and didn't have jobs. Learn to read and learn to reserve judgement. Just because you don't understand a question doesn't mean it's not a valid question. |
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Re: Becoming a professional player
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[ QUOTE ] I mean most professional players don't have mainstream job skills.. Huh? All the ones I know had jobs, have degrees and were often successful at what they did. How you came up with this one, I have no idea, it's one of the stupidest things I've read in a while. Peace, Joe Tall [/ QUOTE ] You are basically stating that the people you know were semi pros, since they had jobs. [/ QUOTE ] I think it was tek who said "Learn to read and learn to reserve judgement." Joe's post could be interpreted to say "these guys had degrees and real jobs before they quit to become full time pros." The use of the past tense suggests that their real jobs existed at a time prior to their status as full time poker pros, and have since ceased to exist. - That said, most of the people that I've seen who are professional players are utter degenerates. The online, clean-living, college-educated poker pro is a new thing, and I don't think there's that many outside of 2+2 and the pro NL tour. Most pros squeeze out a small living from 3-6 or 4-8 games, coupled with disability or pension or living with mom. And I say "most" here because I think there's more of the people I described working full-time at poker than there are WPT/etc tourney pros and 2+2ers. I think that's the heart of this discussion: how many fall into these two major categories? Are there other categories? |
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