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[Professor77]

Why Do Professional Poker Players Still Live With Their Moms? orDon't Give Up Your Day Job As A Lumberjack Until You Read This!In other words, professional poker works pretty much like the standardcapitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. Notwithstanding the media's rhetoric about the million's of dollars available and the glamour of poker stardom, a player's "wages" are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. A low level pro has plenty in common with a McDonald's burger flipper or a Wal-Mart shelf stocker. In fact, most players also hold other jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy poker earnings. Most low level pros make aproximately minimum wage for every hour at the poker tables. And howmany burger flippers end up with less money than theystarted with as a result of flipping burgers?Consider the cost of a weekend playing poker in Las Vegas:Flight: $4402 Nights at MGM Grand: $450Shuttle to the MGM: $9Fri. Nite Dinner and Drinks: $50Two breakfasts: $22Bar: $12Monorail Passes: $26Hookers: $370Saturday dinner and Drinks for 2: $50Taxis: $32Various Other Food/Snack/Drinks: $50Long-Term Parking at airport: $24Total:$1,535.How many minimum wage earners can afford that?Along with the bad pay and high cost, poker players face terriblejobconditions.For starters,they have to sit in a poker room all day and "dobusiness" with other players. Little or no family life, hemerrhoids, backproblems, bad diet and the stink of smoke are some of the side benefits ofsitting for 10 hour stretches at a poker table. Playing in home-games you also risk arrest and, more worrisome, violence.Professional poker player s have a 1-in-2 chance of divorce and a 1-in-30 chance of fatal heart attack! Compare these odds to being a timber cutter, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the most dangerous job in the United States.Over four years' time, a timber cutter would stand only a 1-in-200 chance of being killed. Or compare the poker player s odds to those of a death row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. In 2003, Texas put to death twenty-four inmates-or just 5 percent of the nearly 500 inmates on its death row during that time. Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while playing in this year's World Series of Poker than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. So if professional poker playing is the most dangerous jobin America, and if the salary is near minimum wage, why on earth would anyone take such a job?My blog: http://mypokerroom.blogspot.com(Thank's to "Freakonomics" for the inspiration and statistics) Do you really have what it takes to be a pro?To sit in front of a computer for 14 hours straight a day?To roll your mouse and click more than one thousand times a day?Can your stomach subsist on take out Chinese 365 days a year?Do you have proficient begging techniques in case your cashflow levels get low?Can you wear the same shirt and pants for the next five years?Does your local underpass have high speed access?Can you subsist on internet porn for the remainder of your life?Is your ape index long enough to play 24 tables on six different computerssimultaneously?And most importantly, are you ready for trips to rec.gambling.poker to be thehighlight of your day?(DaveduFresne80@yahoo.com)

[LewFather]

I don't know if you were being sarcastic or what but if you are a pro you probably live in vegas... If your not its like 90 bucks round trip to fly to vegas from detroit and you can find places like the westward hoe right on the strip for like 25 bucks a night plus free drinks.. I'm just saying if you dont have that much money you arent staying at the bellagio and eating spaghetti dinners every night... You get the foot long dog from the hoe lol..