Poker Pro Warns Amateurs

While the World Poker Tour and other poker TV programs would have you imagine that anyone with a "chip and a chair" could become a poker champion and walk off with six or seven figures in prize money, the pros out there would like the hopefuls to know that their lives are not all a walk in the park. In a recent article published online by Jessica Hopp at the tennessean.com, Liz Lieu points out that the life of a poker pro can be a stressful one. When it's good, its great, according to Lieu, but when its bad, it can be very bad.