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Originally Posted by pewpewrobot
my guess for the live ecosystem would be
0.5 per 1/3 table and below
2 per 2/5 table
4 per 5/10 table and above
finally some actual analysis on the meaningless but moderately interesting question.
Building on your estimates (which I think are pretty close).
lets take USA first since only data I could find
https://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/united-states/poker-rooms
6,000 poker tables in US.
Lets say
1/4 of them are running on average during a 24 hour day
So 1500 tables going.
85% of them are 1-3 ,
10% of them are 2/5,
5% of them are 5/10
Thus , these are number of pro players at those tables.
1500 tables x .85 x .5 = 637 1/3 pro players
1500 x .10 x 2 = 300 2/5 pro players
1500 x .05 x 4 = 300 5/10 pro players
So, there are around 1,237 live poker pros in US
I dont have global data but from what I rem from data I did have about 5 years ago there another
3,000 poker tables ROW
so add another 600 pro's for rest of world
So, there are around 1,837 live poker pros worldwide.
p.s Variables in
bold ymmv. adjusts any of those but this is good model to get close to answer OP seeks (but dont know why)