Convince me why I shouldn't play poker professionally - Page 3

jek187 · #21 05-10-2003, 09:11 PM

Please define a "decent living" and I'll tell you if it's possible or not.

Glenn · #22 05-10-2003, 09:22 PM

"I don't see why you can't have a mortgage, car payments, and medical insurance while playing poker professionally."

A rounder walks into a bank.

"Hello, I would like to borrow $150,000 to buy a house"

"Ok, what do you do for a living?"

"I am a professional poker player"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA" [spits out his coffee on rounder's shirt] "HAHAHAHAHAHA"

But I do have medical insurance. It is pretty dumb not to, IMO.

Clarkmeister · #23 05-10-2003, 11:07 PM

"Give me reasons why I shouldn't play poker?"

Because IMO you don't have the self control to beat the games on a daily basis.

AcesUp · #24 05-11-2003, 02:30 AM

Mikey,

Based strictly on some of your posts I've seen here over the past many months, I'd have to agree with Clarkmeister.

rusty JEDI · #25 05-11-2003, 03:39 AM

I have a small problem with everyones definition of "professional." It seems that in the pokerworld professional means someone who's sole source of income is poker. To me this just isnt enough to be called professional. It is simply your job, and you are not professional if you are just getting by.

Next time you go through the cashier at the supermarket and see the 40 year old lady running your stuff through. Think to yourself...She does this for a living, she is a professional cashier. See how dumb it sounds. Or that guy in school who dropped out and now pumps your gas at the ripe old age of 40. Is he really a "professional" gas pumper. I mean it is his sole source of income.

rJ

opie1 · #26 05-11-2003, 07:08 AM

If you have the bank to take off for the summer and survive then take your shot. Make sure that you are deciplined enough to play correctly and dont waste your bankroll and you will have a definete answer at the end of your journey. If you do not have a bankroll saved up.....take some time to set yourself up first. This is vewry important......no matter what level you play.......have the backing to outlast the swings and you will be able at the end of your play say weather you have what it takes or not......if you have the bank but not the brains then at least you can make that analysis and work on that....but if you dont have the cash in the first place then you dont have the basis to set up a correct experiment. Good luck I would love to play poker as a profession......I just dont have the bank to do it.

bad beetz · #27 05-11-2003, 05:00 PM

I am a professional unemployment reciever. Every two weeks I go out to the mailbox and do my "welfare-check-touchdown-dance" in the street and then look around to make sure nobody saw. Then I go cash it at the players bank at the casino, and be sure to let everyone at the tables know that I am playing with their taxes.

bernie · #28 05-11-2003, 06:24 PM

"entire poker community out here knows that some of the most famous players are buried in debt."

i think there's a big difference between a 'tourney' pro and a ring game grinder. and many of the 'famous' players are the tourney guys who get way to much credit for their games, yet are known to put it alot back in in the ringgames. but the fact they had a good run at the end of a tourney, many think they are better than they actually are...

sorry, but i dont have much respect for most tourney players games in the ring, nor their reputations as 'great' players. many great players you never hear about as they get no fame.

b

Fishy · #29 05-11-2003, 06:27 PM

"Give me reasons why a few can hang....and most of us can't?"

A few of em hang on and waste there chances on much better options.

"Give me reasons why I shouldn't play poker?"

You might lose money.

"Tell me why I shouldn't play it over the course of this summer with my time off of school?"

If you can't afford to lose some cash.

"I want to hear scary failure stories and I want legitimate reasons why I (we) shouldn't play."

One of my old best friend was on his final year at University, he was getting straight A's, his parents were rich, he had very beautiful girlfriend.
He came to watch me play poker at the local casino and got addicted, he failed all his university exams and dropped out. He went to play himself everyday and his girlfriend kept on calling him but finally left him because she met another guy while he was playing poker. He would lose and borrow from loan sharks, until he got beaten up by them for not paying up. The loansharks smashed his car and burnt down his parents house while he was having a bath inside. Lucky he didn't die because he was bathing but was still badly burnt.

FA_man · #30 05-12-2003, 09:54 AM

MY TIME is my most precious commodity. If I can spend all of it doing something I love, then it's like increasing my life span.

Actually, a rather famous WW2 - I believe his name was Dunbar - actually felt opposite. Time flies when you are having fun, so if you want a long life, fill it with miserable activities...

-FA_man