Online Professional Poker Players

The recent poker boom, spurned on by television coverage of tournament poker, as well as the ability to play online, has introduced the world to a new career path: that of the professional poker player. And from watching these tournaments, where thousands of dollars are at stake based on the turn of a card, many see poker as the road to a life of riches, thrills, and glory. But the reality of professional poker is far different. Indeed, there are many people, including myself, either solely playing for a living or supplementing their income by playing cards.
But you’ll never see most of us under the lights of the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tour. While a select few do make money solely from playing the large buy-in poker tournaments, the vast majority are grinding out a few dollars per hour in the cash games. And with the advent of online poker a new type of professional has arisen: the online multi-table pro. For those of you not familiar, in online poker it is indeed possible to play more than one table at a time.
Most of the top online professional poker players do so. The number of tables one can play is limited by the individual poker sites, but it is not uncommon for one player to play eight, twelve, or even sixteen games at once, often spread across multiple sites, limits, or even different games.