Is it possible to have a career at poker?

File: Doyle.jpg (22KB, 220x283px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 220x283px

>>75024696
yes

if you put in the time, live in las vegas, and aren't a hothead then it's possible

>>75024696
best bet is to try to outchink the online fags and just call it a hobby tee bee aitch

The "fastest" way of doing this is winning some huge tournaments online and either do really well in the presential tournament or being a cunt so pokerstars hire you to be the jester.

File: FullSizeRender_(1).jpg (125KB, 640x617px) Image search: [Google]

125KB, 640x617px

only if daddy is bankrolling you

>>75024696
Yes but you might as well go to school and become a stock broker and live a better life since you are essentially going to be doing the same thing everyday.

it was possible during the poker bubble but the little fish are gone. the average idiot (in the US) can't xfer $ to the online poker site advertised on ESPN anymore.
games are tighter. the remaining players are all good. why? because the bad players lost their money.
i don't know it for a fact but it is said that many of the famous poker celebs are busto, too.

>>75025054
you have no idea what a stock broker does. it is nothing like playing poker professionally.
stock brokers are licensed salesmen and, at a high level, market-makers.

>>75024696
the most important skill in being a poker player is being able to take and store massive amounts of mental notes over ling periods of time and being comfortable saying goodbye to large amounts of money because it was a theoretically true play. The second part is extremely difficult psychologically speaking. You're also competing against thousands of teenage math wizards from Europe

>>75025196
>implying this hard

gambling is horribly degenerate lads

sort your life out

>>75024696
you need about ten buddies at tournament to gift you early chips to get you started, then youre in the profit
fair logistical operation, but everyone is doing it, without it, it's too luck depended

>>75024696

Yep, if you can put the work in. There are definitely better options available.

>>75025131

>the remaining players are all good

"no"

>famous poker celebs are busto

Maybe. They would certainly get slaughtered by high stakes regulars nowadays.

>>75025250

>thousands of teenage math wizards from Europe
lolno

The games are easily beatable until the Koreans put down SC2 and pick up poker, or someone makes a program like Cepheus for no limit.

File: no.png (1MB, 852x854px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 852x854px

>>75024998
>having to shape your beard as a N64 polygon because you have no chin
utterly pathetic tbqh

>>75025294
>poker
>gambling