10/20 players casual or pro?

[krishanleong]

Just wondering what % of the players whose main game is the 10/20 shorthand on party are professional. Professional is defined as living mostly on poker income, not haveing a 40 hr job in addition to poker and not being a student. The reason I'm excluding students is students tend to have less expenses than non-students.

I'm a high school teacher and I think I really love my job. But there is probably a point at which I'd give it up for money. (to return to later on) I don't know if this poll will help me or not. Thanks,

Krishan

[krishanleong]

One bump. I was going to post a joke but all the ones I found suck. So instead of a joke you got to read this. <font color="white"> I'm sorry </font>

Krishan

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Do you think there are many players who are pros at $10/$20?

More than a handful?

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Do you think there are many players who are pros at $10/$20?

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I'll bet you can count the number of 10/20 pros on two hands. Some might be pros for a week or two, but then they go broke and get real jobs...

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[krishanleong]

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Do you think there are many players who are pros at $10/$20?

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I think there might be 30+. The number of games at that level would support quite a few. I thought I'd get 10 or so responses.

Krishan

[NLSoldier]

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Do you think there are many players who are pros at $10/$20?

More than a handful?

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I think there might be 30+. The number of games at that level would support quite a few. I thought I'd get 10 or so responses.

Krishan

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I think a very good chunk that are "pros" at that level are also students and therefore dont meet your definition. Thats the case for me anyways.

[krishanleong]

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Do you think there are many players who are pros at $10/$20?

More than a handful?

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I think there might be 30+. The number of games at that level would support quite a few. I thought I'd get 10 or so responses.

Krishan

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I think a very good chunk that are "pros" at that level are also students and therefore dont meet your definition. Thats the case for me anyways.

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I agree. There are lots of turning pro threads from people that are students. Relatively fewer from people in established careers. I'm just trying to get a feel since the money at 10/20 seems to outperform most jobs. I appreciate those of you that responded.

Krishan

[TStoneMBD]

dude its easy to make 100k-200k/yr playing poker online. rb alone will net you like $50/hr if you play enough tables.

[goodguy_1]

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dude its easy to make 100k-200k/yr playing poker online. rb alone will net you like $50/hr if you play enough tables.

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easy no I dont think so for the general poker playing populace.For the exceptional or especially driven yes.I think the number of players who play 8+tables daily to play poker for a living is a good amount but nowhere near as prevalent as this forum makes it out to be.TStone you obvioulsy are on the fasttrack -you got some natural skills obviously.It's fairly easy to 8-table but to do it for hours on end,5 days a week and not burn out is not as easy as everyone says it is.Many of the current crop of 8-tablers are not great players-many of them will burnout or bustout.

[kiddo]

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dude its easy to make 100k-200k/yr playing poker online. rb alone will net you like $50/hr if you play enough tables.

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For how many years have u done this?