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Originally Posted by Playbig2000
Of course they are, I was referring specifically to the ones who's wives are the real bread winners or the ones who live at home with little or no bills.
A lot of these guys barely win even though they play almost every day.
A professional poker player should be defined as someone who plays poker "for a living", meaning all his bills and living expenses are paid out of his net poker income. Someone there playing every day doesn't automatically give them the golden pro status.
Let's take poker out of the equation.
I know someone who is a school teacher. They make a middling sum of money, but they spend summers traveling the world because they inherited a large sum of money. If someone asks what they do for a living, they say they are a teacher as that is literally the only thing they work at.
I know an engineer who makes at least $200k a year (probably way more), but they have several hobbies that result in them spending far more than that per year. They make up the difference by selling bitcoin. Do you consider them a professional engineer?
My point, is if someone plays poker and makes a decent sum of money doing so and supplements that amount through other means does that not make them a professional poker player?
If someone spends most of their time doing something that earns them a large portion of their income, isn't that their profession?
