Still, people take up poker as a profession every day. Some do so after years of deliberation. A few do it on a whim. Others pursue it as a second career—after retirement—when they have alternative sources of income to steady the ship in a storm. How successful are they? There are no statistics handy—but we’d be willing to venture a guess that the majority of newly hatched professional poker players go broke, and probably do so within a year.
