[pococurante]

People are giving the OP a lot of crap here just because of how he worded his opinion. By "hardest" he meant "most mentally challenging", meaning that it requires more mental ability and emotional control than other jobs.

Being a poker pro requires a lot of knowledge of math, a lot of self control, the ability to read/track how opponents play the game, and so on. A very small percentage of people are capable of doing this well enough to make a good living.

Sure, if you're a poker pro you would consider it "harder" to have a long commute to a boring office job where you have to work 10 hours a day... but that's just because it's less fun. It's actually harder to be a poker pro, since fewer people are capable of doing it.

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There's an economic balance in the world where people are paid a suitable amount based on the difficulty of their job.

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This pretty much sums it all up. Obviously there are exceptions, but the money goes to the jobs that require the most skill.

So the top pros definitely have a job that's on the more difficult end of the scale, but it's not quite as difficult as becoming a highly paid surgeon for instance.

Oh, and to the person who said "This is rubbish" to that quote... you're an idiot. When it comes to pay:

doctors > lawyers > office managers > teachers > bank tellers > dealers (lol)

You going to tell me that it's random luck that one of those jobs pays more than another?