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Don`t Tell Me You`re A Poker Pro
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13 June 2007
June 13 - Poker is unique. In every other sport or game that I can think of the pro player will nearly always defeat the amateur, but this is not the case in poker where the distinction between pro and amateur is often quantitative rather that qualitative, as I`ll attempt to explain.
First note that deciding to stay in your bedroom and play online poker "professionally" has become the preferred life path for shiftless young dudes about to hit adulthood, perhaps even usurping that other equally unlikely-to-succeed dream of going to Hollywood to become a professional actor.
So everyone wants to become a poker pro, or has moved a step further and told everyone that he/she is now a poker pro, usually winning large sums of money at online card rooms. But becoming a poker pro is really not that tough:
1. You need to play an exhausting amount of poker, and poker needs to be your primary (if not sole) form of income.
That`s it.
In order to play thousands of hands of poker you`ll need a decent bankroll but those guys who play nothing but $50 SNG`s consider themselves to be poker pros just like the guys who play $500 SNG`s, and what about the thousands who put down thousands of $$$ every time in those crapshoot land-based MTT`s? The guy who plays in every WPT main event and all these WSOP tournaments are "pros" as well.
But of course it`s human nature to want to step up to higher levels and that tends to cost money - it`s typical to find a poker player who has one solid result and then many, many terrible results - the Chris Moneymaker syndrome. A lot of these players are fortunate enough to be sponsored, either privately or by a poker room, so playing in a $10,000 tournament is certainly no indicator that the guy next to you is any better than that $3/$6 player at your local card room.
There are thousands of excellent poker players who do not play on the pro circuit, and do not define themselves as pros. Remember that poker pros have seen thousands of hands and (temporarily) have the bankroll but many are still not great players.
So the next time some "amateur" shocks the world and wins a huge WSOP event or a WPT event don`t be surprised. And then don`t be surprised when he goes on immediately to join the ever-swelling ranks of the "poker pro".
Posted by: Marc at 08:12
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