At What Point Can a Poker Player Be Considered 'Professional'?

TheMagic said:

Well , in your initial conditions , I would say a professional poker player is a person that has enough money to pay his bills and to waste the rest with what he wants. He can goes to the mall , buy new clothes, new electronic stuff, and in the end of the month, he can sleep without thinking about money issues.

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L0RDVAD3R said:

What do you think makes someone a professional poker player? Is it more to do with a life style, when you can change your life style,when it becomes a fully paid job? Were not talking skill level here, were talking money making ability.

Is turning pro all about when you get to wear a paid sponsor logo on your hoodie?

Do you hit the penthouse of player prowess and boasting just because you can make it rain $100 bills in an expencive strip club, or do you qualify when you can afford to pay the bills and afford to give some homeless guy money (making it rain quarters doesn't really count, and most likely considered to be assualt with connage in some countrys).

Obviously there are other things that some may consider. Playing and winning a ranking tourneyment, or having a manager. The most inventive idea wins absoloutely nothing but my thanks for taking part.

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strodawg said:

I believe getting sponsored makes one a professional. It doesn't mean bovada or 888 or pokerstars ect. You can have friends chip in and buy you in. When you got people that trust your play to pay on you then your professional. There is people with money that get sponsored so you don't have to be a gutter punk playing to live or survive. If you are making enough from playing to quit your job. That just makes you a really good poker player. Our high school football players arent professional if they can beat nfl rookie records. They are prospects and just really good football players.

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