Pro or Semi-Pro

Uffff... another weekend ends here and i could say i'm not happy at all about it... As you may understand from the previous phrase you could assume that me , my partner and all the guys here at the site do actually have a normal everyday job.

I decided to write this post as many friends of the site ask as usual if we are proffesionals or not. For me , this term tends to be a very strange one. Do we wish to work for ourselves and make vacation two or three months per year? who doesn't wish that actually... On the other side and judging from some previous occations i have saw in the past years , i could say that turning into a proffesional punter could easily get really nasty for somebody. Personally i saw people that one day had 1 or 2 millions of euros on their bank accounts and then i listen about them in 1 or 1.5 year and i heard that they are in deep , deep troubles. And those examples tend to increase nowdays in a very big number. I talk about people i've met in forums during the half - late nineties and early two thousand , i knew them very well and i felt very happy when i learned that they broke this wall. So what happened to all those guys? The one million question is actually How they may lose 1 or 2 millions of euros?

Most of those guys told me that simply losed the meaning of the value of money. Let's see an example. Normal people do have a monthly income of 1000 to 3000 euros per month and from this income they pay their mortgage , rent , car loan , food , etc. All punters start to use a fraction of those money in order to bet. Some lose it all (which is the usual) , some stay on their money and some win. The method and way plays no role. Let's assume that one of those guys breaks through and makes some thousands of euros , then all those thousands become hundreds of thousands. And then the person stops to care about his everyday job , as his income is big and he managed to pay his mortgage , loans and make his life far easier. This situation continues for sometime and all are fine... Though our friend starts to bet other's people monthly wages on a single bet , it is normal to lose the real value of money and then the problem starts for our friend. On a bad run he may lose big then he goes for the recovery with even bigger stakes and his bank approaches the zero... when you have lost the real value of money and even if you are close to 0 it is very easy then to bet thousands of euros with the same ease of betting a few hundrends...

Concerning people i know , that was their biggest nightmare. Some of them recovered , some not. This is normal. And here comes the answer to your question. Is it possible to turn Pro? sure!
And why many people don't? I believe that having a normal job or anyway a normal activity (part-time , etc) keeps you on ground. You see and value those money you win and at the end of the day you always have an escape door on a bad time... Imagine somebody that stopped working on his 25 and now he bankrupted on 35 , how we will find a job now? even with a Masters degree the market already should be ages ago...

This is actually a question we all have to answer to ourselves. Some can break the wall and some don't at the end of the day.

ps. I like to see some old "friends" to show interest and comment on the blog. I wonder how they find time to read it after the huge success they had on their new project and those thousands of members followed them:)