professional and a guy who lives from poker playing as a job takes away his main source of poker income this is a professionalPro themselves I'd say! I'm professional! I know the game! I just know how to play.
Hello. To me, a professional poker player is one who makes a living at it and survives it..[/QUOTE
Scrolled through the thread. Cant say Iâm surprised.....but the last post on the thread before mine caught my attention.
The last post. Finally. So I went back again. A few people seem to grasp it, and a bunch clearly do not. But the one I saw......
Says it perfectly. âMakes a living at it and survives it....â
Winning super awesome CC freerolls for pennies doesnât make you a pro
Cashing a couple of spin n goâs doesnât make you a pro
Ten bucks up in twelve days of playing doesnât make you a plus player and certainly not a pro.
Simply playing 7 hours a day doesnât make you a pro.
I remember an old episode of wild n out. Timothy was chirping the audience during a topic called Things That Are Slightly Racist. Said the word Chinese and pointed out that he was Thai. He finished with the same sentence that I will..........
KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
These words are not slang words... you can use vocabulary or wiki or logic to understand the meaning.
1) Pro = Professional is the one who earns money for living from his profession. So in poker world "pro" is the one who has stable profit in a period of time. For example 90% of finalists of biggest live poker tournaments are professionals.
2) Reg = Regular is the one who plays often, but doesn't necessarily means that he has profit in the long run, Reg plays a lot and is well recognized by other regs and pros at the tables. Majority of Regs are also Pros.
3) Recreational players are those who play poker well, but it's not their main source of living, it might be a wealthy businessman who earns additional profit playing poker while his factories generate stable income without his participation.
so Recreational Reg is't always a player who has profit from poker. Pro isn't always a reg. Reg isn't always a pro. Recreational Pro is a smart and wealthy guy you know
4) 50 shades of the fish located below and I'm not going to describe all of them.
p.s. these values are very subjective, there is no objective opinion, some people in poker world can think that player who earned $1000 during a year of playing poker is a pro, while some other people might say that $1000 per year is nothing, cause they pay much more for the broadband internet during this year.
It's a lot simpler than this thread makes it seem. A professional is someone who makes their living playing poker and nothing else.
Professional player this means that this man lives on money won in poker, poker this his work, his profession.
poker pro is someone who makes their living off of poker as their main source of income.
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a poker professional is usually a guy tells everyone he a poker pro, often to impress girls
has no real job & sleeps in his car
Being able to earn money and live from the game I think makes you professional.
Someone that takes the time to learn the game. Someone that watches others play, studies and utilizes different strategies, and able to play different styles. Someone that can be the player that only plays strong hands and in the next hour can loosen up and play garbage hands as strong hands.
A Pro can pay all his bills from poker constantly, a reg generally is wanting to be a pro but he is not tottally prepared yet, recreational players may be reg or gambler, but they play for fun.
Yeah, being a "pro" isn't too difficult is it?In the old Full Tilt days, it was anyone I got a t shirt for knocking out.
Some would disagree. Personally, I feel like a reg is just a "regular" who is widely recognized at their place of poker play by most, but not necessarily "pro" or even a winning player. They usually are a winning player if they are dedicated enough to be a regular there though. Time put in to be a reg might mean they put in similar time to study and improving their craft.Pro and Reg are same thing.
If poker is your main source of income, you are a pro.
what if I play everyday and I lose?
What happens if I play every day and lose? [/ QUOTE
The same thing happens to me I have become an inveterate loser, I hope to reach the 2 million hands it takes to be a professional having won at least $ 100
Great answer, but some poker "pros" might also have side jobs right? Or similarly be a "pro" poker player on the side?
I often see a lot of the same faces every time I visit the casino and the same names day after day at multiple tables online. What makes someone a pro as opposed to a reg as opposed to a recreational player?