How many of you can honestly profit playing poker?

[ProfessionalGoogler]

Around 9% of poker players can make a living doing this.

Why even touch slot machines? Bet against a person not the house!

Become a professional poker player and travel anywhere.

[BoXXoB]

Nope.

Maybe... if I could manage bankroll...

...But still nope.

It's not easy.

[Indamuck]

I could. Playing live in China I made bucks. Could support myself. But I don't do as well online. And the bigger problem is the wife and kids tie me down, can't be travelling to the most lucrative games ...

Someone once asked Negraneau where he would play if he was to just grind cash games, and he said Macao. Now he would play Macau because he needs an English game. But the underground games in China are even fishier ...

[unholycactus]

There's a difference between +EV and making a living.

9% is believable for +EV, definitely not for making a living.
It's also about playing with the right people, you are the 9th worse player in the world, you will make money if you play against the other 8 that are even worse.

[ProfessionalGoogler]

There's a difference between +EV and making a living.

9% is believable for +EV, definitely not for making a living.
It's also about playing with the right people, you are the 9th worse player in the world, you will make money if you play against the other 8 that are even worse.

PokeStars is trying to fight back against "bum hunting".. 

I'm gonna getcha!

[Kasawari]

I made some money playing on poker freerolls online where there are 1000 to 5000 players playing. I made it to the top most of the time. Playing poker is more about waiting and proper calculation of the cards and your opponents. It's 100% profit for me because I don't invest any money at all. Poker is 90% skill and 10% luck.

[mixan]

At even at 9% seems a bit too high for them to win as much to make enough to live off of.
I would think more like 5% would be about right stat for this.

[panjul07]

I made some money playing on poker freerolls online where there are 1000 to 5000 players playing. I made it to the top most of the time. Playing poker is more about waiting and proper calculation of the cards and your opponents. It's 100% profit for me because I don't invest any money at all. Poker is 90% skill and 10% luck.

How much you win to play freerolls against 1000-5000 players? I believe you need to spend so many hours to finish on top of the freerolls, as long as your profit is worth enough with they time you spent so it is OK.
I would prefer to play on GTD tourney or ring game rather than freerolls with so many players, because I know I can t spend so many hours on it.

[Jstalk]

I made some money playing on poker freerolls online where there are 1000 to 5000 players playing. I made it to the top most of the time. Playing poker is more about waiting and proper calculation of the cards and your opponents. It's 100% profit for me because I don't invest any money at all. Poker is 90% skill and 10% luck.

How much you win to play freerolls against 1000-5000 players? I believe you need to spend so many hours to finish on top of the freerolls, as long as your profit is worth enough with they time you spent so it is OK.
I would prefer to play on GTD tourney or ring game rather than freerolls with so many players, because I know I can t spend so many hours on it.

i played on betcoin 5 hours for winnings of $30, not worth it for the time but still took profit. Im in a different time zone also so i do be falling asleep playing till 5-6 am in morning!!

[ProfessionalGoogler]

I made some money playing on poker freerolls online where there are 1000 to 5000 players playing. I made it to the top most of the time. Playing poker is more about waiting and proper calculation of the cards and your opponents. It's 100% profit for me because I don't invest any money at all. Poker is 90% skill and 10% luck.

How much you win to play freerolls against 1000-5000 players? I believe you need to spend so many hours to finish on top of the freerolls, as long as your profit is worth enough with they time you spent so it is OK.
I would prefer to play on GTD tourney or ring game rather than freerolls with so many players, because I know I can t spend so many hours on it.

i played on betcoin 5 hours for winnings of $30, not worth it for the time but still took profit. Im in a different time zone also so i do be falling asleep playing till 5-6 am in morning!!

Better to just play the daily BTC or a tourney of value.

[Kasawari]

I made some money playing on poker freerolls online where there are 1000 to 5000 players playing. I made it to the top most of the time. Playing poker is more about waiting and proper calculation of the cards and your opponents. It's 100% profit for me because I don't invest any money at all. Poker is 90% skill and 10% luck.

How much you win to play freerolls against 1000-5000 players? I believe you need to spend so many hours to finish on top of the freerolls, as long as your profit is worth enough with they time you spent so it is OK.
I would prefer to play on GTD tourney or ring game rather than freerolls with so many players, because I know I can t spend so many hours on it.

I won more than $3000 that started from freerolls. Now I'm playing with gtd tournaments. But I still love playing freerolls because it is risk free.

[Dogedigital]

I'd say the real number is <1% tbh.  Even smaller nowadays with bad rake and bad player pools.

[unholycactus]

There's a difference between +EV and making a living.

9% is believable for +EV, definitely not for making a living.
It's also about playing with the right people, you are the 9th worse player in the world, you will make money if you play against the other 8 that are even worse.

PokeStars is trying to fight back against "bum hunting".. 

I'm gonna getcha!

Can't really bum hunt on Pokerstars, there are great players even at the 1cent/2cents tables.
What I was talking about is only applicable in live poker.

[adaseb]

I think most professional poker players can make a living if they are playing against other human opponents. But you can't really have an advantage against playing against an online casino.

[Junko]

It's not making a living obv, but over 160K micro-stakes cash game hands, I have a win rate of 15.3 BB/100. Like I said, micro-stakes. Slowly building up a comfortable roll to move up to small stakes.

[23dzmaz]

It's not easy to make a living by gambling on poker. 9% is really small though, only pro player who can do that and of course you need big bankroll.

[pooya87]

gambling is not a way to make a profit at all and not for anybody. even if you play different game than others like playing poker you can not still make a profit from gambling it is just too risky. but poker at least gives you a better chance if you are skilled to make a profit.

[Bloxy]

I don't think even the pros can actually make a stable income with Poker.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Where did you get those stats from ? Playing against the user instead of house is what traditional poker is all about. Doesn't mean it was always fair.Remember the scene from snatch ?

[bering]

i'm not profesional gambler so i didn't make living from gambling too regarding your questions i was only playing online poker and i didn't do it everyday only if i want so i was never counting how much profit do i made from playing poker because sometimes i had lost too from poker games