Pros?

steveestewart said:

Also, you can't call yourself a pro if you are unemployed and play poker, making it your primary income... except I'd tell everyone I was a pro

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IcyBlueAce said:

This makes no sense what so ever.

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salim271 said:

Hard to say because its hard to define what a pro really is... for example, BelgoSuisse once mentioned that he has a full time job yet makes about 2000 a month 8 tabling 100nl or 200nl, I cant remember which. Is he a pro? Other people on here im sure have no jobs and play a lot of poker... and lose a lot while they're at it. Are they pros?

Imo if you decide that you play poker professionally and you are making enough that you can live on it, you can be considered a pro.

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1. Academic qualifications - A teaching degree (University doctoral program)theological, medical, or law degree - i.e., university college/institute.
2. Expert and specialized knowledge in field which one is practicing professionally.[6]
3. Excellent manual/practical and literary skills in relation to profession.[7]
4. High quality work in (examples): creations, products, services, presentations, consultancy, primary/other research, administrative, marketing or other work endeavours.
5. A high standard of professional ethics, behaviour and work activities while carrying out one's profession (as an employee, self-employed person, career, enterprise, business, company, or partnership/associate/colleague, etc). The professional owes a higher duty to a client, often a privilege of confidentiality, as well as a duty not to abandon the client just because he or she may not be able to pay or remunerate the professional. Often the professional is required to put the interest of the client ahead of his own interests.
6. Reasonable work moral and motivation. Having interest and desire to do a job well as holding positive attitude towards the profession are important elements in attaining a high level of professionalism.
7. Participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs b : having a particular profession as a permanent career c : engaged in by persons receiving financial return[8]

salim271 said:

Hard to say because its hard to define what a pro really is... for example, BelgoSuisse once mentioned that he has a full time job yet makes about 2000 a month 8 tabling 100nl or 200nl, I cant remember which. Is he a pro? Other people on here im sure have no jobs and play a lot of poker... and lose a lot while they're at it. Are they pros?

Imo if you decide that you play poker professionally and you are making enough that you can live on it, you can be considered a pro.

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1. Academic qualifications - A teaching degree (University doctoral program)theological, medical, or law degree - i.e., university college/institute.
2. Expert and specialized knowledge in field which one is practicing professionally.[6]
3. Excellent manual/practical and literary skills in relation to profession.[7]
4. High quality work in (examples): creations, products, services, presentations, consultancy, primary/other research, administrative, marketing or other work endeavours.
5. A high standard of professional ethics, behaviour and work activities while carrying out one's profession (as an employee, self-employed person, career, enterprise, business, company, or partnership/associate/colleague, etc). The professional owes a higher duty to a client, often a privilege of confidentiality, as well as a duty not to abandon the client just because he or she may not be able to pay or remunerate the professional. Often the professional is required to put the interest of the client ahead of his own interests.
6. Reasonable work moral and motivation. Having interest and desire to do a job well as holding positive attitude towards the profession are important elements in attaining a high level of professionalism.
7. Participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs b : having a particular profession as a permanent career c : engaged in by persons receiving financial return[8]

steveestewart said:

Playing poker because you make as much or more $ than you would at a regular job and playing because you can't find a job (or don't want one) and you cash in $50 a month is 2 totally different things...

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