How many online pros average +500k a year in the world?

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You can even be a good 2/4nl pro and make $500k a year if you play a lot.

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this is true, but people are either lazy or they keep moving up until they find a limit they can't beat. the number *could* easily be 500+, but it isn't, for aforementioned reasons.

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No doubt. The truth is most poker pros are idiots. Everyone is always trying to play higher and higher. Then when they get there they always want to piuck on the players who are good regulars instead of focusing on the few fish. Everyone has a rediculusly big ego. If people just grinded and game selected..etc. and stopped being so lazy a lot of people would make a lot of money at this game.

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some of u guys are kinda being ridiculous about this, leatherass I think ur drastically overestimating not only the ease of making this much but the number of players who do it.

Ive heard people drop numbers like 1.5bb/100 in limit at 30/60 and 5ptbb/100 playing a ton of hands at 5/T NL, but playing that many hands probably means u arent just playing when on ur A game or table selecting as much as you could all while massively multi tabling all of which hurt ur winrate.

On top of that these winrates are only achieved in the long long term (500k + hands) by the best in the game at these respected levels. At 5/T regulars who make this much per 100 while playing 6 tables or more are extrememly extremely rare, in limit to achieve a winrate over 1bb/100 at the mid to high stakes in the long long run is even more rare let alone hoping to make 2bb/100 at 20/40+ which isnt that realistic in todays games.

To put it in perspective, good2cu posted his year graph recently and it was less than 200K and hes been considered one of the better online NL grinders at 5/T and sometimes higher for awhile now and gehrig arguably the best limit HU specialist out there made 200k last year (and his edge is pretty large, his winrate HU is probably higher in sustainable terms than most six max or full ring players). Sure they may not have played nearly as much as some of u guys have outlined, but most people don't and really who wants to, thats part of the perk of the job is enjoying life, otherwise playing constantly engulfs and can get kind of miserable.

yeah there are a lot of people u could come up with who made more than 500k last year or will make it this year BUT I think most of u guys think its far more because literally almost all of them post on this forum so you hear about it from so many sources.

Making more than 100k is pretty decent, mroe than 200k means ur pretty much kickass, 500k+ from online poker and ur in a rarified atmosphere with not as much company as u may think