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Originally Posted by As1an1nvas1on
I don't consider myself a professional since I go to school and I had and will have a summer job this year.
This is incorrect reasoning. Neither of those things are considerations in if you are a professional or not.
The much more relevant piece of information is the 100k hands which I think would be very low for a professional player.
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Should I be claiming winnings?
People need to really clarify if they are asking should I legally be claiming my winnings or should I be claiming my winnings as a purely EV question.
The answer to the second is almost always no. Unless you are going to do stuff that makes you very public (run a blog / do newspaper interviews / star in a PokerStars commercial) or you feel the need to pay taxes for moral or patriotic reasons then you shouldn't pay taxes.
If the question is a legal one then we'd need a lot more information to say but the low volume is strong first indicator that you would not be considered a professional unless you scored very high on the other criteria of the test. For example, low volume but with exceptionally well targeted opponents where you studied and found fish in multiple games and drove around BC only playing those fish and only after studying their play would be a professional.