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how should u get into playing poker professionally?..im still young, just turned 18 but ive been playing poker for a year or so and i think im pretty good, i want to play professionally as soon as i can, how should i do it?
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- All you have to do is find games and show up. When you win, that's your income. The more games you go to, the more you will hear about. It's a social network. You could seek out games on the internet too. Read about poker every chance you can too. Nobody is too good to learn more. Oh, and lazydork on youtube is a pro poker player, you could write him. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lazydork
- It depends where you live. If you live in America, you may as well forget it for now. Most casinos won't let you in until you are 21. If you live in a place that considers you an adult, you have more of a shot. Realistically what you are suggesting is not an easy way to make a living. You will have to work very hard, have outstanding money management skills, have no benefits or health insurance, work anti-social hours, and sometimes you will have to deal with bad luck. Even some of the best players in the world go broke from time to time. For every person that tries to make this kind of career work there are a few dozen who try and fail. Quite honestly, if I were you I would go to college. Keep playing as much as possible, but get an education along the way. If poker doesn't work out you will have a degree to fall back on. Getting an education will keep you focussed on more than just poker, so that your life isn't so one dimensional. By the time you get your degree you will be 21, eligible to play at pretty much any casino in the world, and have three more years experience. If you think you are good enough to go pro after just over a year, imagine how good you will be after three more years! Quite honestly, I don't think you will make it if you try right now. I could be wrong, but the odds are I am right. Very few 18 year olds have the self discipline and money management skills required to become a full time professional poker player with no other source of income. You could be the exception to the rule, but again odds are you are not. This is why I think you should enjoy college, get your degree, and do poker part time. I have a friend who paid their way through college with online poker. He now has a doctorate and works as a college professor. He only works about 20 hours a week, which keeps him free to play poker when he wants. He makes more money from the poker than his job, but his job keeps him grounded and gives him benefits and health insurance. What ever you decide to do, good luck.
- wait until you're 21. Ready every book on poker and study them, learn from the professionals of the game. Right now you could play home games and build your poker nest egg until you can play legally in a casino. Playing live games will give you much better experience that playing online. Also, you might want to build a business plan on how you will make a living playing poker. Don't plan on playing poker for the rest of your life, learn on how to manage your money before you sit down and play (this is the biggest killer for 99% of all players). Good luck and may all your hands be mosters.
- define professionally? simply it means a job. all you need to do is play for higher stakes. either you are good or you are not. if you think you are pretty good you are probably bad. try this test...play for higher stakes. at the end of a month how much money have you got. none, lost it the first night. see i told you you were bad.
- You will need a large bank roll kid, start by looking for the world series tours and try to get in on the competitions. Take a look at the site bellow. The only real advice I would give you is to finish your education get some qualifications.
- My advice is don't think about going pro, at least not yet. You are too young for one and you have only been playing for a year. You need a lot more time on the tables to be able to go pro. I too play poker and have been playing it for many years and I don't even consider myself up to a pro level. Also you need to learn proper bankroll management. Learn the game better. I can almost guarantee that once you step onto a table with some pros you will come up against challenges that you would have never expected. You need to be able to read opponents and know when to bluff someone out. Just some advice...wait until you are at least 21 and if you still think you are good enough to play pro then get into some small buy-in tournaments and work your way up to WSOP tournaments in Vegas.
