Re: Is poker a profession?
By your quote it is obvious that you are wrong. You take your mastery of specialized knowledge and apply it at the table to win money versus other people. It is not disimilar in a very broad sense to how the stock market works, and yet you don't get people complaining that stock brokers aren't "professionals". It surely relies on people being worse than you at it, but advancement in any profession relies on much the same, or rather that is to say it relies on you being BETTER than others. Thus poker could reasonably be viewed as a profession.
Further, there are other definitions of the term "profession" to consider, such as "a principal calling, vocation, or employment". Under this defintion all you need to be doing is making money to pay your bills from playing.
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