How much $$ do the top online players earn?

[MicroBob]

" while many full time pros have a lot less better things to do with their time then play shittons of hours."


Yes...I agree with this.


think of the tourney leader types on Stars.

What would you think is the number of people who put in more than 50 hours per week on Party or Stars??
I bet it's pretty high.

While layness and the inability to get in the hours is an issue for some....others are simply addicted to this stuff and put in 50 or 60 hours or more per week.

Pretty pathetic? Yeah, maybe. That's a LOT of hours.
But they are definitely people who are doing this.


I think that Schneids was correct we he said perhaps he should have made the cut-off $150k instead of $100k THEN saying 200 players might be not too far off.


but $100k isn't THAT far-fetched for a lot of players.

Lets just look at 25 hours a week though:

1250 hours per year (50 wks).
So that would be $80/hr for $100k.


If you can make a little more than 1BB/hr per table while 8-tabling 3/6 then that's $40/hr.
This might only be a win-rate of 1.3BB/100 really.

Tack on some rake-back and bonuses for perhaps another $25/hr (that's just another $3/hr per table for rake-back) and you're most of the way there to $100k a year.

And this is just 25 hours per week at 3/6 for a $65/hr rate for $80k!!
Up this to 31 hours and you have your $100k.


As Sklansky mentions in SSHE...making $50k a yr at 3/6 is not a big deal.
Thus making $100k/yr at 5/10 isn't so impossible either. And if you can 8-table 3/6 then it's even do-able down that low too.


I think there are plenty of disciplined players with good rake-back deals who are pulling in close to that $100k range.
but maybe most of these are really in the $75k-$90k range and I'm just generously rounding up for them.

[HoldEmKillah]

If I can make >$100/year then there must be thousands, no...bazILLIONS more. Seriously, there are way way way more than 200 of us. I would say 200 make >$500k.

[tolbiny]

They are also going to have dificulty building their bankrolls to the point where they can consistantly play high enough stakes to be able to earn that much money (barring those people who play 600,000 5-10 sh hands a year).

[Python49]

i feel confident in saying im going to make over 100k in my first year of serious online play... with a large majority of that time spent playing 100 nl. Think about it.... someone playing 100 nl beating it for 7bb/100 can make 5600 a month at 40,000 hands for the month. This can be done 4 tabling for 3-4 hours a day. With rakeback that comes out to about ~7000 a month for 84k on the year. Someone just beating 100 nl can almost make 100k a year, surely theres more than 1000 people beating 200nl and higher (or the limit equivalent) across all the poker sites online.