Noob or pro?

How long do you play Poker?

I play roughly 3-4 hours each day. In total, I've been playing poker for 6 years.

I don't think there can be a professional here playing freeroll

i am playing the game since a very long time, but just casually.

I dont think time is the factor in classifying one pro or noob.

More likely imo someone can be considered pro if he makes his living exclusively from poker or not.

A recent international survey found that approximately 20% of players gamble purely for fun (recreational players, including beginners and amateurs), about 63% consider themselves serious players (earning some money but not making a living exclusively from poker) without being financially dependent on the game, and around 17% (professional players) derive a significant portion or all of their income from poker.

Among professional players, it is common to see routines involving 30 to 40 hours of play per week, in addition to time spent on analysis and study. The average player plays two or three times a week, with sessions lasting about 45 minutes.

a couple of hours a day , unless i get into a tournament, then hopefully a lot longer

Almost 10 years, i was a part of fonds so technically i can call myself as a pro. But tbh i am not, rn i am playing more for fun then for value

Until February I was playing every day, beginning at 10-11 am and signing up for tournaments until 6-8 pm, quitting only after the final tournament ended. But my knee suffered from sitting so long. Now I play from 4 pm onward and enter fewer tournaments.

It depends on the format. In cash games, I typically play 1–3 hours each session. For tournaments, I allocate significantly more time because a deep run can easily take 5–8 hours or more.

I prefer a shorter session with complete focus over grinding for hours when I'm fatigued.

I don't play much now, but I played for about 10 years, and I was definitely a winning player, either when I was tilting early in a session, or when I should have won but didn't because I was unlucky, or when I should have won but the other players weren't good enough to realize they should have folded to my bluffs, or when I played badly but knew I was playing badly, so those don't count because they're not a very accurate representation of my skill.

14 years or maybe more!

been playing for over 10 years and at least an hour a day

I’ve been playing poker for 11 years, but for me it’s just a hobby. About 99% of the time I play freerolls (https://www.casino.us/poker/best-freerolls/), and I only play for real money (https://www.casino.us/poker/) occasionally. If your goal is to make money, I’d recommend playing for real money from the very beginning. In my opinion, that’s the only way to turn poker into a source of income.

A recent international survey found that approximately 20% of players gamble purely for fun (recreational players, including beginners and amateurs), about 63% consider themselves serious players (earning some money but not making a living exclusively from poker) without being financially dependent on the game, and around 17% (professional players) derive a significant portion or all of their income from poker.

Among professional players, it is common to see routines involving 30 to 40 hours of play per week, in addition to time spent on analysis and study. The average player plays two or three times a week, with sessions lasting about 45 minutes.

and 0.1% are make 10M per year

I play 2 or 4 hours a day, I've been playing for three years, I still consider myself a rookie.

long but still clueless about poker

I don't believe a professional would pass up a freeroll.

Trust me: always take any freeroll, free ticket, or bonus offered, regardless of how pro you are. For example, on GGPoker you’ll face opponents in freerolls or using free tickets who have 500,000 USD in total winnings or higher.

I typically spend my weekends playing during my free time.

I've been playing for about sixty years and I'm neither a newbie nor a pro. I simply love the game. 🙂

How long have you been playing poker?

I've been playing for approximately 8-9 years. I'm past the beginner stage, though I wouldn't call myself a pro. For me, poker remains a hobby.

been playing since i was 18 years , im 28 now so that tells (https://www.casino.us/poker/strategy/poker-tells/) you all what you need))

I'm a beginner and still lack a lot of experience.

I've been playing for 20 years. I'm not a pro, I'm a consistent winning player and always have been.

I have been playing 20 plus years, and I am a nobody. I am not a good player. But I know that when playing at PokerStars for play money I am playing with pros.

All the real money players that won $5,000 even up to 1Million dollars are identified.

I survive playing micros! I play poker for over 10 years.

I've been regularly playing for roughly three years, but I seldom play now because my preferred poker rooms aren't accessible in my country.

I've been playing for roughly 6 years

I play from very small but I forget it and just play 1 year nearly

35 Years?! I'm a newbie...

I've been playing for just a bit more than a year.

I think I've been playing poker for more than 10 years, although at first I didn't take it seriously, but I earned money regularly. When I came to CC I started studying poker and it has been better for me, my problem is that I always have to withdraw all my bankroll (https://www.casino.us/poker/strategy/poker-bankroll-management/), and start from scratch, I now hope to be able to play bigger tournaments. 😎

5-10hours each day.

3 hours a day for me .I shud do something constructive but I enjoy poker

I've played for several years, and one lesson I've picked up is that poker continues to teach you, no matter how long you've played.

The deeper I study, the clearer it becomes that there's always another tweak to implement. That's part of why the game never becomes dull.

I first started playing poker back in 2011. In 2013, I began learning the basics and entered real‑money Sit & Go tournaments on PokerStars. These days I play whatever fits my timetable, mainly MTTs and Omaha cash games.

How long have you been playing poker?

I’ve known the game for 20+ years and I’ve been playing it for a long time.

I win some cash now and then.

But making a living from it or becoming a pro is too difficult for me.

It requires discipline and consistency, which I can’t handle and don’t have in me.

So you could say I’m a noob who enjoys poker and gambling (https://www.casino.us/) .

I'm new to this world but I fell in love with poker at first sight but I have a lot left to learn, I just need a good amount of time to get more experience since I currently have more losses than profits, but I know the process, there is a bad streak, maybe that's all, but I prepare every day to be better and I made a living from poker, the goal is to get to play live tournaments and travel and see places, their cuisine and culture in these countries, I've been playing poker for 7 months.

A beginner here. I played live poker when I was younger for a few years, then quit because of work. After decades and retiring, I found Cardschat and began playing their games that fit my time zone. I also enter live and online tournaments whenever I have the time.

The major turning point for me came when I understood that strong poker often means folding. Once you quit believing you must play every intriguing hand and begin evaluating choices by expected value (https://www.casino.us/poker/strategy/odds/expected-value/) across thousands of hands (https://www.casino.us/poker/strategy/poker-hands/), your outcomes grow far more consistent. There's always more to learn, but that ongoing learning is part of what makes poker so satisfying.

I've been playing for approximately 10 years.

The truth is that I have been playing poker for years and a half, I want to start getting out of the freerolls (https://www.casino.us/poker/best-freerolls/) and starting at the micro tables, the truth is that I only play 3 or 5 tournaments a day and with minimal attention to the tables because I do it while I work. And that doesn't let me concentrate the way I want to.

Reading everyone's "years played" here is a little intimidating as a total noob — I've only been at this a few months and I'm signing up for my first tournament soon. Definitely not pretending to be anything but a freshman right now. Curious how long you all played casually before you felt "ready" to sit down in a real tournament instead of just cash games or freerolls?

I haven't been playing poker much recently, but 1 or 2 months ago I was playing poker roughly 4 hours each day; I had already been playing poker for 2 years,

I'm only a beginner; I believe I've been playing for 3 years, but I don't consider myself a professional or at someone who knows poker very well. I enjoy poker a lot, yet I'm far from professional—mostly just a recreational player.

Por quanto tempo você joga pôquer?

About 12 years ago or so, but I took a break from 2019 until 2024, and I came back last year

4years