I debated about an hour about this topic with a friend and we couldn’t reach an agreement. I once heard 5-10% of players consistently make money.
How about you, has poker been a profitable hobby?
There are a lot of scams selling courses too, the guys who study constantly are always winning! Just look at the top players, they don't sell courses, however, some provide coaching...It is not. There are lots of pros who are millionaires one day and asking for stakes the next. No one is profitable in the long run unless you make a big score and then walk away. The so-called pros who are rich are always selling coaching or poker books or getting sponsors...THAT'S how they are making their money, not from actually playing.
This is because pokerstars is the most difficult field, sites like partypoker, Acrpoker, tigergaming the percentage can be higher.It was down to 13% winning players in MTTs on PokerStars 2013.
Probably even lower now (maybe someone can use Sharkscope).
Of the player that wins only a small part can live off it so maybe 1-2% professionals in Tournaments.
Interesting decline in percentage of profitable players on Pokerstars - MTT Poker Strategy - Multi Table Tournament Poker Forum
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Poker is profitable for me, however, nowadays, it is much more difficult to be profitable, because there is a lot of access to content and study software, however, the majority do not care about evolving, they play more as a hobby, including here in the community, where there is content and players with experience to share.I debated about an hour about this topic with a friend and we couldn’t reach an agreement. I once heard 5-10% of players consistently make money.
How about you, has poker been a profitable hobby?
Exactly, example: in that period, a cbet flop was an advanced move, nowadays, it is a widely used move.It is 100% profitable 'if' you're willing to do the work. These days it takes much more work than say 10-15yrs. ago.
Yes, of course, poker is profitable for me. I think poker makes money for the majority of players - members of our community, primarily because of our great freerolls. I think, even more, I'm sure that if it wasn't for my membership in CardsChat I wouldn't have had such good results. So once again I would like to thank the CardsChat community for the great opportunitiesI debated about an hour about this topic with a friend and we couldn’t reach an agreement. I once heard 5-10% of players consistently make money.
How about you, has poker been a profitable hobby?