Poker Player as a job

steve01991 · Jul 14, 2025

if you are really good, you will need backers to support your entry fees, then when you reach that level, i would consider it a job.

888NOX888 · Jul 14, 2025

It might be worth trying to play through the foundation.

tagece · Jul 14, 2025

It is a hard job. You will need to play many hours almost all the days in the week. Pro online players plays all Saturdays and Sundays, because the tables are full of recreative week players.
You will have to deal with disapproval and Judgmental looks from family members who think you're too lazy to have a real job.
You'll have to learn to deal with the bad times, where you can dedicate dozens of hours to work and lose money in the end.
That said, if you really want this, study a lot and try to take advantage of the learning from every hand you play.
You'll work hard, but with luck, you can make enough money.

TeUnit · Jul 14, 2025

To make the switch you probably should be crushing the games you play over a very large sample size and you probably want to start out being overrolled.

UngureanuDan · Jul 14, 2025

Play 5 day a week and get better at the game, experience its very important to be able to play poker full time!

romerim · Jul 14, 2025

Invest in studying the game thoroughly, understanding the strategies, probabilities, and reading your opponents.

dompoker · Jul 14, 2025

First you need a lot of money, then you can play big tournaments and be able to make a living from poker.

andron205 · Jul 17, 2025

Patrick Leonard wrote that you can make good money, and I agree with that.

NotADonk · Jul 17, 2025

andron205 said:
Patrick Leonard wrote that you can make good money, and I agree with that.

Care to specify what counts as good money ?

phuchoidey1 · Jul 18, 2025

That is dream of many player but not all people can do that I think only 10% can do like a job

Manjerica1 · Jul 18, 2025

I think the only way to have poker as a job is to work within the field, either as a dealer, as a teacher, or participating in some group of players who are already profitable.I personally have been trying for the last six years to live solely from gambling and I still can't, even though I dedicate myself a lot, it is necessary to have control of Bank roll and extra income so that you can live while doing it

scobido · Jul 18, 2025

Everyone would love a job like that, but I say you should have a solid bankroll before making poker a job.

Dushka · Jul 18, 2025

I think professional players should give advice here.

Dushka · Jul 18, 2025

I think professional players should give advice here.

kittykittykat · Aug 20, 2025

I play poker for fun. I think if my next meal depended on it,it would cease to be fun.

Deluded1 · Aug 20, 2025

hecibala said:
Do you have any tips ? About how to became a poker player as Main job. I play for 16 years but still doing it not as a job. So any tips ?

you need to have a minimum 0f 400 buy ins if your a mtt player and at the minimum id say 9 months money for all bills before you go for it

Peteski84 · Aug 20, 2025

If you're not under a sponsorship contract (paid to play).
You have to either be comfortably well off and have money in the bank or you have to live day to day scrounging and scraping by with poker being your life.
All are awkward positions to be in.
I will stick with it as a pass time.
Not sponsored, comfortable but no money in bank and I'm not intending on living just for poker.

DiazPoker3101 · Aug 20, 2025

Patience and more discipline, I suppose. I'm on the same path anyway, so I can't give you any feasible advice, but stay strong, brother.

Toruk Makto · Aug 20, 2025

It's the dream of many...

Fallenglory · Aug 20, 2025

hecibala said:
Do you have any tips ? About how to became a poker player as Main job. I play for 16 years but still doing it not as a job. So any tips ?

I'm curious. Could you share what you have done so far to start playing professionally?

Newzooozooo · Aug 20, 2025

hecibala said:
Do you have any tips ? About how to became a poker player as Main job. I play for 16 years but still doing it not as a job. So any tips ?

Hi

Perhaps you lack motivation, perhaps perseverance, or perhaps you simply set the wrong goals. There can be many different reasons why you are not yet a professional player. I think you can answer this question yourself if you are willing to analyse your path.

SOLO22 · Aug 23, 2025

I'm going to be honest with you, that's my greatest desire to be able to dedicate myself 100% to playing poker and I'm not going to rest until I do it, I want to prove to myself that it's not like most people think it's a card game that's a game of chance, it's not about that it has much more complexity and within that complexity it looks much more than it's not for everyone, because many people are attracted to poker just for money and I feel that it's the part that's a little dark and you don't sell it from the angle that everything What can he teach you outside of what he can give you because money and I feel that that one is additional is given to him by the same player as such

moraeskvmi · Aug 24, 2025

You will only be considered a professional poker player when all your bills are paid through poker, so if you don't have the time and certainty to face all of this and dedicate yourself to the maximum, it's not the time yet.

valanddon · Aug 24, 2025

I do not think that playing a game is a job.

NSX_Amfe2nat · Aug 24, 2025

Study GTO, do not bluff much and always play tournaments which u can affort

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