The person who became a professional poker player who earns a large amount of money while being a writer


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Michał Parzuchowski

Female writer Maria Konnikova began learning card game ' poker ' from scratch in 2017 and planned to put the experience into a book. However, Connikowa was so addicted to poker that he had grown enough to earn a lot of money in tournaments with prizes, so his book publication could be postponed for a while. Such Connikowa shares his insights as a professional poker player.

Maria Konnikova Won a Quarter Million Dollars Playing Poker
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When Connikowa played poker for the first time in 2017, she had no idea of “playing poker for money”. Female writer Konnikova is a person who has also serialized in New Yorker and is a talented woman who also holds a doctoral degree in psychology. Connikowa is a professional poker player and a poker player who is also inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame , a professional poker player who studied poker from Eric Saidel and published a book on poker called The Biggest Bluff. It was planned.

However, while Konnikova got into poker, he won in a tournament where professional poker players also competed, and was well trained to earn a lot of money. In fact, they won the National Championship of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) held in January 2018 and won a prize of $ 84,600 (approximately ¥ 9,400,000). By winning the tournament, Konnikova postponed his book publication schedule and decided to join the poker tournament further.



Looking back on the experience of actually taking a tour as a professional poker player, Connikowa says, 'In fact, a professional poker player is a difficult task requiring a great deal of money. If you are a tournament player, it will be a long time You must be prepared not to make any money, 'says the severity of the pro players in the tour.

Professional poker players can earn as much as $ 200,000 in a tournament. However, if you participate in a tournament, you need a Buy-In of about $ 2000- $ 5,000 (about ¥ 22-550,000 ), and if you participate in multiple tournaments, such a prize will be blown out at once. .

Actually Konnikowa, who made a lot of money in poker in 2018, used the prize money for the subsequent tournament participation, and it seems that it was about 10,000 dollars (about 1,100,000 yen) after all that was left at hand is. That's a big poker tournament, Buy-In is expensive, and people watching it 'underestimate it,' he said. Also, Connikowa has participated in many poker tournaments, so he traveled around the world for eight months a year in 2018, so he participated in the poker tournaments all year round. Some of the current players are flying around the world without a specific address.



'It definitely changed my day,' said Connikowa, who succeeded in earning $ 84,600 in a single tournament. However, it was said that Mr. Konnikova's life did not change greatly on the economy. The reason is that while Konnikova was active as a poker player, his previous activity as a writer was suspended. In other words, while working as a professional poker player, Konnikova was the only source of revenue for poker.

So, 'I just earned $ 86,000 (about 960,000 yen), but to continue playing, I have to prepare a hotel and arrange a ticket. Many poker players 'I'm going to go bankrupt because of this payment. Poker prizes are highly taxed, and I get about 60% off taxes, so I've noticed that I don't have so much prize money on hand,' said Connikowa Is speaking.

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In the case of one-on-one poker, as many people imagine, if you played each other with $ 100 (approximately 11,000 yen), you could lose $ 100 if you win, you lost Even if it is possible to fight again. However, in a tournament where many players participate, even if the participants buy-in for a certain amount of money, the top 10-12% of the participants can receive the prize money. As a result, even if you participate in a tournament, you can not cover even travel expenses if you can not score good results such as 1st or 2nd. For example, in the case of a 1000-player tournament, more than 900 players will leave the tournament without getting a dollar.

Also, while Connikowa wrote, 'I don't think it's a way to get rich in poker,' the World Series of Poker , the world's largest poker tournament, won a prize of $ 8 million (approximately 880 million yen) Because of that, it is said that if you win such a tournament, life will change. In addition, the question 'Why do I make a poker pro even though I can't make money?' Is answered 'It's an attractive game for poker.'


by Chris Liverani

'In a men-led society, women have the potential to be good poker players because they have to be sensitive to social cues,' Konnikova wrote. Konnikova speculates that women were not inherently good at reading others' minds, and that they had to improve their skills as a survival mechanism. Among the skills developed because of such a woman, the skill that Konnikova thinks he was particularly helpful in poker seems to be 'the ability to control emotions', and this makes it possible for the mind of the person in a way that men usually do not need. It is written that it became possible to read the

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