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Message: [QUOTE="Cyclguy, post: 6526345, member: 1005175"] Seems kind of high, but I suppose it could be accurate. I do know that most pros do not get rich from poker, but from endorsements and promotions mostly. That only applies to the top players, Hellmuth, Negreanu and others like them, the rest go from game to game, tournament to tournament, looking for backers and selling shares. The top players have to keep playing in order to keep their sponsors, once they aren't famous anymore they lose the advertisers. Erik Lindgren won millions playing poker, but lost it all, and more, betting on sports mostly. He is still millions in debts and has to keep playing to pay them off. I feel confident saying that most recreational players in the long run are overall much less successful than the pros and they lose much more often than they win. [/QUOTE]