Gambling as a profession: there's people who live out of gambling?

[d.kevin29]

Good analysis there, mate. It is not so rare that when I check such long posts made by new members for plagiarism, they appear to be either partially or completely plagiarized. This post of yours was checked as 100% unique, so I decided to give you a merit.

I personally think that someone can say that gambling was a profession for him/her only post factum, after winning hundreds of thousands or millions of USD with it. Such people can(and have all the right to) give lectures and write books about how smart they are and how effective their strategies are, because, as they say, "the winner takes it all", not only money but fame also. But in fact they just happened to be more lucky than others in a certain period of time.

Thanks for offering the Merit point! Really appreciate. I'm trying my best to stay unique and differentiate myself from the spammers, and hopefully I will not be considered one in the future either.

Yeah, anyone can gamble and say they've got the key to winning but I bet you the next person who's going to use their "trick" will not have the same results. I'm talking from actual experience over here, because it unfortunately happened to me too when gambling (however, it was a good lesson I learned). So don't listen to Buffet hoping you'll have the same success. Just mark his words and see what you can offer to get everyone's opinion about your product/service from "meh" to "wow!".

[peter0425]

If we research in the internet, we will see a lot of people claiming they are winner in sports betting and they are selling their system to help gamblers, please don't fall for that as that is likely a scam attempt. We can only be successful in sports betting by our own, so don't rely to other people.

I see this alot of this on the Web, usually pity those who fell for those scams. Anyone who truly has a wining system for sport betting and wants to sell it or wants to teach someone is a pure scam. If they really have such thing as they claim, they won't want it saturated.

I don’t know if people will really buy that idea,gamblers are more mature now and being learner about all he scam attempts in this forum
As fo how many times its discussed in all boards here ,reminders from various person and exposure fromhe detectives,basically we are safe now

[iamsange]

If we research in the internet, we will see a lot of people claiming they are winner in sports betting and they are selling their system to help gamblers, please don't fall for that as that is likely a scam attempt. We can only be successful in sports betting by our own, so don't rely to other people.

I see this alot of this on the Web, usually pity those who fell for those scams. Anyone who truly has a wining system for sport betting and wants to sell it or wants to teach someone is a pure scam. If they really have such thing as they claim, they won't want it saturated.

I don’t know if people will really buy that idea,gamblers are more mature now and being learner about all he scam attempts in this forum
As fo how many times its discussed in all boards here ,reminders from various person and exposure fromhe detectives,basically we are safe now

For sure, there are a lot of people who still believe that. Any gambling games strategy that sell to people, if they still don't know or think about easy winning, they will buy it. That scammers still appear until now, only because there are a lot of people still believe with it.

[boyptc]

skills is very important to the gamblers

If you or someone has made gambling a profession then this is what you must have. Not just luck and play carelessly. It will result in loss and you don't get profit every day. Professional gamblers already know what to do and win not hoping for luck.

Someone who's not even a professional but knows how to play carefully, he will get the idea on how to play well. Gambling professionally isn't a thing for most of the people here but this is actually for real.

Some can't believe that this is a thing that happens elsewhere and thinks that gambling is only for fun. But honestly, as long as they can maintain themselves and sees an opportunity for it and they know the risk and possibility of how much it will cost them.

[darkangel11]

Gambling is no profession by any mean. It is just a game which risks money.  And there is not a bit of reality in it that some gamblers are making money out of this game to fulfill their basic needs. Majority of gamblers lose not only money but many more due t this evil. At most, it should be played just like any other game which means not very often and that too with a small amount of money.

This is a play on words because gambling is a profession but it's not named this way. There are professional poker players and people who bet on sports, horses, fights. THere are people who organize events and bet on them at the same time. Many people live off gambling but they don't describe themselves as professional gamblers because it doesn't sound right and puts them in a bad light.

[hahay]

obviously it will be difficult if you only rely on gambling as the main source to make a living. to win gambling, most people only rely on luck

That's wrong, although its difficult but it's not impossible to win in gambling, if you rely on luck, you won't simply be making a living in gambling.

In order for you to win, you need to rely on your skills and the reality would tell that there are only few people who have the skills to make a living in gambling, and I am sure the casinos are aware of that but do they care? of course not, what they care is that they win in overall which they can pretty easily do.

Thus the point is that not all gamblers are able to make gambling a part of the profession, because basically gambling is game of luck and even though you have good skills in gambling, there are times when you will get a bad incident when betting. In that case indeed every profession would at least have good and bad situations, but in gambling I only felt that gambling was filled with pressure and greed until finally it only ended with loss and it was difficult to move on when we had no other source income.

[LogitechMouse]

In order for you to win, you need to rely on your skills and the reality would tell that there are only few people who have the skills to make a living in gambling,

Yes professional gambler are not just relying on their luck, they mainly use their skills and strategy to win. For an ordinary gambler it might hard to believe it but (just like what you have said) there are few gamblers who can actually do it.

Its just that not all can do it because we know majority are losing their money rather than winning.

The thing is we thought we can easily make it because of the belief that there are people who are making money in gambling.
Things are not like that, if winning in gambling is easy, those operators will not last this long, they should have close the business a long time ago.

If we research in the internet, we will see a lot of people claiming they are winner in sports betting and they are selling their system to help gamblers, please don't fall for that as that is likely a scam attempt. We can only be successful in sports betting by our own, so don't rely to other people.

Gambling is no profession by any mean. It is just a game which risks money.  And there is not a bit of reality in it that some gamblers are making money out of this game to fulfill their basic needs. Majority of gamblers lose not only money but many more due t this evil. At most, it should be played just like any other game which means not very often and that too with a small amount of money.

I don't see it as a profession to as I see gambling as a form of entertainment only. Some sees them as a profession because there is money involve with it which is wrong. I didn't see anybody who became rich and bought something rich out of their profits in gambling. Yes there are some gamblers who are winning but what they are doing is they will gamble it again hoping that it will give them more profits but they always end up losing their money and the profits they got. Gambling is not a profession for me but maybe for some they see it as it is.

[finzyoj]

skills is very important to the gamblers

If you or someone has made gambling a profession then this is what you must have. Not just luck and play carelessly. It will result in loss and you don't get profit every day. Professional gamblers already know what to do and win not hoping for luck.

But, of course, it takes time. You don't get to become an expert on something in just a snap. Things like this doesn't happen overnight. Skills are learned and practiced that's why patience is also necessary. Yes, professional gamblers know what to do with the help of their skills but they'll surely tell an aspiring professional to always have patience with them.

[Naida_BR]

I believe that there are people who live out of gambling.
But this doesn't mean that they make money from tournaments, etc. Professional gamblers make money mostly due to sponsorships and advertisements. So there is a way of making indirect money from gambling.

[BChydro]

Yes professional gambler are not just relying on their luck, they mainly use their skills and strategy to win.

This part is true as these professional gamblers wage a ton of money and they necessarily do not rely on their luck all the time, they will try to bring the luck to them as they know with dollars anything can be purchased and sometimes the investigators catch the players because they took money from someone, in short yes these gamblers will bribe players to play according to their terms and its called fixing  .

For an ordinary gambler it might hard to believe it but (just like what you have said) there are few gamblers who can actually do it.
Its just that not all can do it because we know majority are losing their money rather than winning.

If you are a true sports fan you can wage a bet on the team, there is a ton information needed to wage a bet, player injures and critical information are a vital part when you are wagging a bet and the past statistical performance in the past few months does help you in coming to a prediction that will be almost accurate.

[White Christmas]

Just curious here.
I know there are tons of way to live.

but is there such a thing as professional gamblers?

people who make a living onlyout of gambling (online or on rl)?

resources and comments on that are really welcome.

There is someone I know who is a friend of mine here in the Philippines in which he is paying by his boss in order to play in the casinos and his boss is giving him a budget that he needs to earn a profit and when he lost there is no need for him to pay the losses but when the gambler win there is a percentage of the money that he gambles out. I think even in different places all over the world there is someone that they are paying in order to play in the casinos.

[Peashooter]

Maybe the richest person is the one who are making gambling as a profession because they have a lot of funds to bet or gamble. They just gamble their money and they earn while sitting and just playing in some casinos. You can meet those people in the famous casinos that they are the one who are just playing and they earn money. For me gambling as a profession is a hard time or a big risk taking because you can lose a lot of money by this and I see a lot of people down on debt because of gambling.

[AicecreaME]

We can only be successful in sports betting by our own, so don't rely to other people.

about that, one will have to do a lot of research to gain knowledge about sports betting, and in those searches it will depend on data published by others. It is important to always look for different opinions on the same subject so that you can have a good knowledge, I read some stories of people who have succeeded in the world of gambling, but they avoid talking about their strategies and their failures.

But still people are waiting for professional gambling tips, which they didn't know it was all lie, who would expose his secret in his field of expertise, no one, because if they do, everything will be destroy slowly, and if you will listen on those white lies, you will be destroy too. We have to accept the truth that we can't do all do the things that other people do, if your friend is making money in gambling, that doesn't mean you could do the same thing, we have different fields when it comes to our profession, let's stop imitating people, especially in the world of gambling.

[Saint-loup]

Just curious here.
I know there are tons of way to live.

but is there such a thing as professional gamblers?

people who make a living onlyout of gambling (online or on rl)?

resources and comments on that are really welcome.

I think you can live from the gambling, but it seems to be more easy to live by doing financial gambling, because the house edge is lower and because there is a little bit less randomness. What is the more similar as gamble in the finance, is the trade of options I think, because it's very similar as betting.

[maydna]

Just curious here.
I know there are tons of way to live.

but is there such a thing as professional gamblers?

people who make a living onlyout of gambling (online or on rl)?

resources and comments on that are really welcome.

I think you can live from the gambling, but it seems to be more easy to live by doing financial gambling, because the house edge is lower and because there is a little bit less randomness. What is the more similar as gamble in the finance, is the trade of options I think, because it's very similar as betting.

Yes, he can live from gambling, but he needs to have many things before he can start earning money from gambling. We know gambling related to luck and skill, so if he doesn't have one of two conditions of that, he cannot make money from gambling. We guess that some gamblers can make money in online gambling or real-life gambling, but perhaps, we don't meet them already, so we still guessing who are they.

Trade of options can be very similar to betting, but if he can have skills to determine where the market or the price goes, he is not betting with the market. He analyzed the price so he can buy and sell at a price he wants.

[btc78]

Maybe the richest person is the one who are making gambling as a profession because they have a lot of funds to bet or gamble.

Op not because they have lots of resources meaning they can beat the house ,it’s not like that and do you know at least a single person near you that become richer because of gambling?if not then don’t say that richest person is gamblers since you have no proof

They just gamble their money and they earn while sitting and just playing in some casinos. You can meet those people in the famous casinos that they are the one who are just playing and they earn money.

How come that you may recognized rich people thru gambling just by going in casino?how come you are getting this ideas

For me gambling as a profession is a hard time or a big risk taking because you can lose a lot of money by this and I see a lot of people down on debt because of gambling.

In this We will be one because that is very true tons of people now are in bad shape just because they treat gambling as profession

[Betwrong]

Maybe the richest person is the one who are making gambling as a profession because they have a lot of funds to bet or gamble. They just gamble their money and they earn while sitting and just playing in some casinos. You can meet those people in the famous casinos that they are the one who are just playing and they earn money. For me gambling as a profession is a hard time or a big risk taking because you can lose a lot of money by this and I see a lot of people down on debt because of gambling.

Most of them don't earn with gambling. Those rich people you are talking about can lose $10k without even noticing. So, they play big games without fear of losing, and if they lose they don't talk about it. But when they win (which happens too, of course, because as much as no one can be constantly winning, no one can be constantly losing either), they talk about it a lot, and then we get the impression that they can make big money with gambling.

[Zanzibet]

i think that due to the nature of the activity, being a professional  gambler can expose you to all sorts of vices. If you find it hard to maintain discipline, you may end up with some bad habits. and a simple rule change to your favourite game can seriously hamper your success.

[ecnalubma]

The only people I know that are making a living through gambling are those professionals in Poker and cockfighting. Through their gambling career they are making huge amount of money and even put up a business and acquire luxurious properties out of their income enough to support their families. But for ordinary gamblers I bet its impossible.

[supercanada1]

Maybe the richest person is the one who are making gambling as a profession because they have a lot of funds to bet or gamble. They just gamble their money and they earn while sitting and just playing in some casinos. You can meet those people in the famous casinos that they are the one who are just playing and they earn money. For me gambling as a profession is a hard time or a big risk taking because you can lose a lot of money by this and I see a lot of people down on debt because of gambling.

Well but I have seen a lot of the richest gamblers having their own major business or any other industries, they have not made gambling as their source of income and I have seen them while betting a large amount of money, they are known as gambler and businessmen by their profession, so I think a gambler should not only rely on the gambling but they should also have some other source of income for living.