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In fact, back in 2004 I wrote about this when Fortune Small Business ran a piece on Annie Duke.
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#Proplayer definition professional
Of course, I’m not counting cash games and such but the point is that many of the people who are considered professional poker players aren’t exactly living the balla lifestyle. If we were to judge companies like we do poker players, Company A would be considered the better company to own because we’re only looking at gross revenue. It gives you a very distorted picture.Ĭompany A has $10,000,000 in revenue but only makes $500,000 in profit. That’s sort of like looking only at a company’s gross income without knowing the cost of sales. If they sold a piece of themselves or took backing then they may have only seen a fraction of that. Nor does it indicate how much of it they actually saw. Granted, that’s still good money but it doesn’t count buy-ins and how much they’ve spent in tournaments where they didn’t cash.
#Proplayer definition pro
Or how about the poker pro who has $1.2 million in career tournament cashes but it’s over a 10 or 15 year period? That’s only $80,000 – $120,000 per year when you average it out. They stick around long enough to fund a bankroll and then quit and come back six months later looking for work again. I also know of a few “pros” that have done multiple tours of duty in the customer support departments of online poker sites. Over the years I’ve been contacted on numerous occasions by self-billed professional poker players who want an in on some entry level job in online poker. As far as I can tell, the generally accepted definition is, “someone who plays poker and doesn’t have another job.” It just seems as if the title gets thrown around pretty easily these days. Are you more or less of a professional poker player than someone who has a full-time job but consistently wins $80,000 a year playing part-time? Or, what if you’re grinding out $40,000 a year playing poker. I mean, if you’re a sponsored pro making $20,000 a month in endorsements and coaching and then losing it all on the poker tables are you really a professional poker player? But how many supposedly professional poker players derive all or most of their income from actually playing poker? Is it someone who makes their living playing poker? That would be my definition. I’ve been doing a lot of light reading lately and nearly every poker magazine article is written by “a professional poker player.” Likewise, watching many of the televised poker events the commentators will often identify a player as a “professional poker player.”īut just what the heck is a professional poker player?