Occupations of Poker Players

[betgo]

Common occupations of poker players and how they relate to poker. I have probably missed someblue collar occupations. Of course chess, bridge, and backgammon players have experience with games.

Pool Hustler -- gambling, playing people, reading people
Salesman -- playing people, reading people, financial calculations, putting in effort with no reward, fluctuations in income
Pilot -- analytical, thinking ahead, courage, taking charge
Actor -- representing, reading people
Programmer -- analytical, math, putting effort into things that don't work
Accountant -- analyitcal, financial calculations, knowing what to get away with, telling if something is suspicious or doesn't add up
Attorney -- financial calculations, analytical, representing things, playing the cards dealt, winning and losing
Magician -- playing people, representing things

[4_2_it]

I heard that mathematicians made good poker players, but I think that is probably just another unsubstantiated Internet hoax.

[smoore]

Good pilots have very little courage, as long as the courage you speak of includes bravado. Flying a plane correctly takes no more courage than driving a car correctly.

Good pilots are calculating and correct, they take ZERO chances.

I'd like to play poker with 9 good pilots.

[Prevaricator]

how are actors good at reading people? I thought actors were good at representing emotions (...hence, actor).

If I had to pick several people from different professions and play them in some sort of poker showdown competition, I would choose day traders, stock brokers, lawyers, and maybe salesmen above others.

Garbage men and male prostitutes.

[RoundTower]

Poker dealers.

[Gunny Highway]

What exactly is the point of this list? Did you just pull this out of your ass? You think magician is a "common occupation" for poker players? How many magicians do you think you'll run into on an average night at the Bellagio (assuming you don't go to the show)? This post is even worse than your polls in the Books forum. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[betgo]

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What exactly is the point of this list? Did you just pull this out of your ass? You think magician is a "common occupation" for poker players? How many magicians do you think you'll run into on an average night at the Bellagio (assuming you don't go to the show)? This post is even worse than your polls in the Books forum. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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There are a couple of magicians or jugglers who are known pro tournament players.

I took what I knew of the occupations of pros I knew orsaw on TV and made some deductions. This is probably not scientific or provable.

[Gunny Highway]

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There are a couple of magicians or jugglers who are known pro tournament players.

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I see. We'd better also add rancher, Internet zillionaire and NBA team owner to our list of "common occupations" for poker p[layers then. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

An architect understands numbers, dealing with failure (investing $ and time into design competitions and losing), selling ideas of grandeur to a table of people, understanding proportions (pot size to your stack size to villains stack size), occasionally having to work 24 hours straight on a design charette (mental stamina), and most importantly, being creative.

There do not seem to be a lot of successful architects as poker players but I know Noli Francisco is one.