Playing Poker For a Living

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of people sat at their desks at their day job wishing they could forget about the stresses and strains of the daily rat race and instead be at home playing poker for a living. It is quite a common dream of aspiring players to be able to earn a wage for playing poker but for every person who makes it and realises their dream there are thousands who simply fall by the wayside.

Doyle Brunson once famously said that playing poker is a hard way to make an easy living because on the surface playing poker for a living looks simple, after all it is just a card game, but in reality the vast majority of people are not cut out for the being a professional poker player, especially the mental side of the game. There is no other job in the world where you can work hard, make absolutely zero mistakes yet at the end of the month their employer takes money from their account, but if that person was playing poker for a living that is a very real possibility and something that a large percentage of people just cannot get their heads around.

How to make a living playing poker online

Although playing poker for a living is a very difficult thing to do, a player should not be deterred from chasing their goal and dream. Nobody got anywhere without hard work and dedication and thanks to online poker sites such as Ladbrokes Poker it is now a little easier to become a professional poker player.

Before anyone even thinks of leaving their day job so they can spend it playing poker they need to meet a number of requirements that are seen as prerequisite for being a professional poker player. The first may sound obvious but the player needs to be a winning player and a proven one at that. The poker world is full of players who have had a couple of consecutive winning months and they now think they are poker gods and goddesses! However, what they fail to realise is they could be simply having a good run of cards and they might not be as good as they think they are. But if they can continue to win over a large sample size, say 300,000 hands of cash games, which can be done quite quickly playing multiple tables on Ladbrokes Poker, then they have put a tick in the first box.

Another box that needs ticking is the bankroll management box. Anyone who wants to be playing poker full time needs to have enough money set aside so that they have at least six months, twelve if possible, living expenses available to them just in case they do not get off to a winning start. They should also have an ample bankroll that allows them to continue to play at their usual stakes even after a prolonged losing run because having to move down in stakes means earning less money.

Playing poker full time allows a person to have plenty of freedom but if anyone who reads this is thinking of becoming a professional poker player then they need to be honest with themselves, unless they could quite easily crash and burn and become one of poker's forgotten men.