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What is the definition of a professional poker player?
If you play something like no limit hold 'em $2-4, how much money should you win per hour or per 100 hands (or whatever scale you use) to be considered a pro?
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- That depends on what your overhead (salary, living expenses, whatever you want to cal it) would be. I'm also assuming you can always get a game where most of the people at the table aren't at your level of play. It seems to me that you would need to average $200 a day to make it--that would give you about $4000 a month before taxes if you work 5 days a week. You'd have to do better than that on your good days to cover for your bad days, of course.
- a professional is anyone who makes their living from the trade they have chosen as a means of making their ends meat. I am a professional carnival game operator but i do not make as much as a professional football player. in other words a clerk at your local convenience store is a professional sales clerk. Ditto for gamblers.
- Sam gave a better answer, but I have read that a professional poker player aims to make 5 Big Blinds an hour. So at a $2-4 game you'd wanna average $20 an hour. So, if you wanna keep track, simply write down how much you won or lost for each session, and how many hours you played, and then every month find your hourly rate.
- Definition of a pro poker player? Someone who's majority income is made through playing poker. What else would be considered pro? And I think pro's would play a LITTLE more than $2-$4, more like $200-$400.
- You can look at this two different ways. You can consider yourself a professional player if you use it as your primary source of income. You can also consider yourself a pro if you have won any money from a source that requires you to report it (not from your buds on Friday night but from a real casino or online site where you are registered for tax purposes - I believe you can deduct losses if you also report winnings).
