Your A Professional What?
I love poker. I hate poker.
Poker can be compared to life in many ways, because we must make decisions based on incomplete and often innacurate information. Life is not like chess where you can see every angle, every position on the board, and the player with the most skill wins. I have been reading StevesBets blog because I want to get more insight into what it is really like to be a professional poker player. For many of us part time poker players, this is our ultimate goal.
I wonder if that really is the best route for most of the people who claim the title. Playing poker for fun on the weekends and a few hours a day online for extra income is fun. Grinding out a living playing 8-10 hours a day may not be so much fun. Imagine working for a month and losing money. Even people with commission only jobs don’t get paid negative money. But it is a common occurance for a poker player to have a negative month.
My biggest fear if I ever tried to play full time would be killing the pleasure that I currently get from taking down a monster pot or making a few thousand dollars on a saturday.
I know many players who try to go pro end up going bust instead, but I wonder how many more just can’t take the grind. I know that to be successful long term, you have to stop seeing winning and losing pots, and see only +EV and - EV moves. If you win a 10K pot with a hugely negative EV, you should be mad at yourself for making a bad play, not congratulating yourself for winning the money.
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