Can you make gambling a profession - a full time job

[iBaba]

I'd like to clarify that this topic is distinguished from businesses or entrepreneurs involved in gambling as businesses, such as casino companies, etc., but with a focus on gamblers. I know there are many people who regard themselves as professionals at playing gambling games, but do you ever think that one can make gambling a full-time job and career because of his or her deep knowledge of the games? Can someone bet with little or no loss because it is one of the most unpredictable games to play?

Gambling to my understanding, is a trial-and-error game with uncertain outcomes, unpredictability, and luck. Therefore, professional gamblers must exhibit a deeper than usual understanding of the games, the statistical probabilities, and a high level of risk management skills.

However, it is critical to realize the risks involved, which include unstable financial circumstances and potential addiction problems. So, pursuing a gambling career should be approached with serious caution, and gamblers ought to be well-informed about the accompanying problems. Furthermore, I believe that having various sources of income and taking calculated risks will be highly beneficial.

But, in a broader sense, can you make gambling a career path, abandoning all other sources of income to focus entirely on it?
If so, why?
If not, please advise!

[internetional]

I'd like to clarify that this topic is distinguished from businesses or entrepreneurs involved in gambling as businesses, such as casino companies, etc., but with a focus on gamblers. I know there are many people who regard themselves as professionals at playing gambling games, but do you ever think that one can make gambling a full-time job and career because of his or her deep knowledge of the games?

My classmate was a guy of such sort. He really dedicated all his time to figuring out how to beat slot machines, exploring various loopholes. Nevertheless, he eventually ended up producing slot machines himself.

This is an example of how a dedicated gamer, spending a lot of time searching for the perfect strategy in the game and turning the game into his actual job, ultimately understood the system so well that he switched sides and stopped playing.

[un_rank]

But, in a broader sense, can you make gambling a career path, abandoning all other sources of income to focus entirely on it?

You can, but should not.

You should not leave your income source up to probability with no assurance, stability or job security. This is the same reason I will advise caution to anyone investing in any asset regardless how reliable it is, cause there are to many factors out of your control.

Gambling is best taken as a recreational activity and not to be depended on as a means of livelihood.

- Jay -

[Oshosondy]

Making gambling a full time job is a mistake from someone that will become a gambling addict or someone that will spend more on gambling and losing. Thinking of gambling as a full time job will create a bad mindset that will bring losses of money to gambling for the person and the person will regret that.

Anyone that will say he is professional in gambling will have other things that bring money for him and gambling will be what he do not depend on at all but for fun. If it is not like that, it is foolishness, not professionalism.

I can not make gambling a career unless I have enough money to provide gambling service for people so that I can make money from people that are gambling.

[wheelz1200]

I mean technically you can make anything a "full time profession".  If you are single it's less risky but if you have a family, I would ride or die on gambling to support your family.  What happens if ypu go bust?  Now other people have to suffer from you choice of not getting a continual paying job.  Leave gambling for fun.  If you make a ton of money doing it, count it as a bonus.

[Sandra_hakeem]

No matter how safe it would be, it's never an option to adopt the idea of gambling... We all know how hard times have been recently, but don't ever try it.
Nevertheless, I've seen peeps that indulge in that and I sometimes wonder how they cope with funds to recycle the process; most times, they're successful - but what's the possibility of becoming like 'em if you decide to begin? Mind you they'll never tell you if they lose; all you'll get to see is what they allow you to see, which are the win tickets.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[Gozie51]

It is not a career part for me because I believe even those who claim to be professionals also lose money in it from time to time but what happens to their own situation is that they have capital base to deep into for steady refund. Moreover, they also understand how to manage their bankroll and to that extent they can be claiming professional. It is not a full time job even though some gamblers who don't have other source(s) of income have seen it that way of trier to know if it can help them to survive but really, it is not long lasting.

[Wiwo]

Gambling should not be taken as a career and as a matter of fact there is no professional in gambling and since gambling results are unpredictable that makes it likely to be the most risk evolving and unrealistic outcome that makes you as a gambler to take lose at most times and since for sure there be no such thing as that we can't then take gambling as a profession because we can't develop on them as long as the journey be it most likely that we end up with the opposite of things if we pursue a particular direction.

So it will be a bad step to take gambling as a means of gaining or making an income at some point in time.

[dzungmobile]

Making gambling a full time job is a mistake from someone that will become a gambling addict or someone that will spend more on gambling and losing. Thinking of gambling as a full time job will create a bad mindset that will bring losses of money to gambling for the person and the person will regret that.

Gambling is more risky than trading and even casinos provide Provably Fair games for gamblers, the risk is still higher than trading.

It's harder to beat the casino games than beating the market and I believe we know beating the market in trading is not easy. You can get profit with investment in the market but in trading, it is super harder and very minority of traders get profit with trading.

With gambling, gambling responsible is a vital condition and if a gambler fails to do it, losing a life money will come as a consequence of irresponsible gambling. Building a career, a full time job with gambling is harder than building a career, a full time job with trading or investment as gambling is more probability-based than trading.

[goaldigger]

Any gambler can claim to be a professional gambler and there’s no benefit from this aside from winning which is you are the only one to know if you are indeed winning or its just a hype. Considering this as a career will vary because there is indeed someone who considered gambling as their profession and they are making a lot of money from gambling already and that’s why they afford to abandoned their other sources of income. Gambling is not a career to many and we all know the reason why, if you are broke and don’t have much money better not to think this way and focus more on your guaranteed source of income.

[Juse14]

If not, please advise!

No matter how smart we are in playing gambling, including me, we can never guarantee that every time we play, we will get the same or much bigger winnings. Even if we are smart enough to play gambling, we can only increase the chance or possibility of winning, and there is no guarantee at all.

And if we talk about work, then we have to know clearly about what we will do and how much wages we will get, while in gambling it is full of uncertainties, where we can lose and we can also have the opportunity to win. Where sometimes the amount of loss we experience is much greater than the profits we get while gambling.

And if you consider that this gambling is a sure source of income and so you make gambling a career path, so you prefer to leave all other sources of income and focus entirely on gambling. Then I'm sure that in just a few short years you won't be able to afford to go back to the casino because you've run out of capital to do so.

So my advice is to continue to assume that gambling is just a means to get pleasure. And only in Play in your free time without having to interfere with other activities

[Queentoshi]

But, in a broader sense, can you make gambling a career path, abandoning all other sources of income to focus entirely on it?
If so, why?

Maybe you have already set up other investments like businesses that will be providing you with the money to gamble with, because if you have not and just decided to take gambling as your main career and source of income, it will not be long before you steal to gamble, die of depression or take the decision to try out something else. Gambling is a good activity for fun, but should not be considered for full time engagement. It tags you first as irresponsible and then makes you a liability to your very close family members and friends.

[swogerino]

There is only one way to make gambling a profession and that is to become a professional player in the games of skill world like learning poker at that point that you can make a living out of it,I know people at Pokerstars who do just that.

Except that every other way you might be thinking like slot machines,blackjack or even sport betting do not even think about it and even if you think with sport betting I can make a living out of it let me remind you a very fresh upset of Bayern Munchen not winning at home against Copenhagen with an 1.20 odd,if they play 100 other times Bayern wins 100 other times,unfortunately they didn't when they need it by crushing the hopes of thousand bettors.

[Kemarit]

Of course you can make it a profession, or a full time job, but the question is, can you make money out of gambling?

Case in point is those professional poker player, we've seen thousands of them. But not everyone can be in the top 5 or top 10 in every tournament and land some money a long the way. And even if you study it, there will be competitions around you.

I hear story when I was a little that someone in our neighborhood is making money out of cock fighting and send his 3 kids to college, but I'm not sure if that is true or not though.

[acroman08]

But, in a broader sense, can you make gambling a career path, abandoning all other sources of income to focus entirely on it?
If so, why?
If not, please advise!

there are people who made gambling a career path and there are some of them who are successful, but you have to realize that among all the gamblers all over the world, these people who made a good living through gambling are very small amount. the only advice I can give you about this is do not try it, the chance of you failing is far far greater than you succeeding, apart from that, you are risking yourself becoming addicted to gambling.

[Johnyz]

No one is stopping you from doing this, and we can only tell the risk of it but still the decisions are yours and you’ll be the one to handle such risk and deal with it. If you are capable enough to do this why not? Considering this as your main source of income will need a lot of budgeting especially if you are not that rich. Gambling is a profession to many, and in my country there’s a lot of gamblers or into gambling campaign makes a lot of money especially on the referral program of the casinos.

[Odusko]

No one is stopping you from doing this, and we can only tell the risk of it but still the decisions are yours and you’ll be the one to handle such risk and deal with it. If you are capable enough to do this why not? Considering this as your main source of income will need a lot of budgeting especially if you are not that rich. Gambling is a profession to many, and in my country there’s a lot of gamblers or into gambling campaign makes a lot of money, especially on the referral program of the casinos.

The decision is truly left for the ops to make and that is the most important thing to note at all times and how best they end up configuring themselves to be placed in a better position to take, and if he can design a means to keep winning at all time, then it becomes a profession or a full-time job, sven as many comments have suggested and pointed to the limitations and risk of taking gambling as a means to earn income in such a situation.
Bot to take it as a full-time job as the case may be because if you can be consistent in the winning direction, then I don't see any reason why gambling can't be taken as a full-time job.

[Assface16678]

Of course you can make it a profession, or a full time job, but the question is, can you make money out of gambling?

Case in point is those professional poker player, we've seen thousands of them. But not everyone can be in the top 5 or top 10 in every tournament and land some money a long the way. And even if you study it, there will be competitions around you.

I hear story when I was a little that someone in our neighborhood is making money out of cock fighting and send his 3 kids to college, but I'm not sure if that is true or not though.

True, anyone has the right to treat gambling as a profession, as we don't hold their lives, but the thing is, will they be successful in it or will they make their lives worse? You see, gambling is a game of wits, probability, and luck. Even if you are smart and have a skill in a game, you will never win if you don't have luck and you are not in the probability of winning. For anyone who's dreaming of making money in gambling and being a professional, we can't stop them. The only thing we can do is give them advice and warning on what path they will take because gambling will only give you two paths: the path to wealth and the path to poverty. For me, I don't recommend gambling as a profession. No, not all have a shot at it. Just treat gambling as a plaything; play whenever you have extra money. Who knows, you may hit a jackpot someday, but don't hope.

[Dewi Aries]

I mean technically you can make anything a "full time profession".  If you are single it's less risky but if you have a family, I would ride or die on gambling to support your family.  What happens if ypu go bust?  Now other people have to suffer from you choice of not getting a continual paying job.  Leave gambling for fun.  If you make a ton of money doing it, count it as a bonus.

Yes anything can be made into a profession but if we make gambling an object of profession I think this idea is too dangerous and even if you can I'm sure it's very difficult, I mean I'm not sure you will be able to get through all the pressure that is in gambling as a result. Although you have the freedom of choice but try to choose something more reasonable and use your common sense in thinking to consider whatever place is suitable or not to make a profession.

Especially if you have a family which of course your responsibilities are quite large in the real world, you need money for sure and must always be there when the need calls you, while the results of gambling are always unpredictable, what if you are always difficult to get lucky? I can't imagine what your condition will be full of various pressures whether it's from the pressure of need or pressure from the impact of gambling which will greatly interfere with your mental and psychological. So the point is that this profession is really not recommended, it's better to find a sure thing that can give you a fixed salary without the risk of gambling for your safety as well.

[chigo]

I'd like to clarify that this topic is distinguished from businesses or entrepreneurs involved in gambling as businesses, such as casino companies, etc., but with a focus on gamblers. I know there are many people who regard themselves as professionals at playing gambling games, but do you ever think that one can make gambling a full-time job and career because of his or her deep knowledge of the games? Can someone bet with little or no loss because it is one of the most unpredictable games to play?

Gambling to my understanding, is a trial-and-error game with uncertain outcomes, unpredictability, and luck. Therefore, professional gamblers must exhibit a deeper than usual understanding of the games, the statistical probabilities, and a high level of risk management skills.

However, it is critical to realize the risks involved, which include unstable financial circumstances and potential addiction problems. So, pursuing a gambling career should be approached with serious caution, and gamblers ought to be well-informed about the accompanying problems. Furthermore, I believe that having various sources of income and taking calculated risks will be highly beneficial.

But, in a broader sense, can you make gambling a career path, abandoning all other sources of income to focus entirely on it?
If so, why?
If not, please advise!

As far as I have lived, there is not a single gambler that I know, whose main job is gambling, because as far as I know, there are many gambling owners who design games that will 100% only make the dealer win

I'm sure there are thousands of gamblers who will never be able to get a stable and consistent income from gambling, they will continue to lose and win in gambling, they won't win 100% of the time so it's difficult to become a full-time gambling worker lol