What it is like to play poker for a living? Meet Kunal Patni who ditched his banking career for it
If you watch TV these days, you must have seen actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in an advertisement for an online poker platform. In the last couple of years, the number of companies offering poker products has grown from just one - Adda52 - in 2011 to 15 today. For example, PokerRaj, backed by industrial
- The work life Kunal plays poker online, travels across the globe for poker tournaments, and says he earns thousands of dollars at each job.
- That same year, he quit his job became a part of the first-ever team of Adda52 Pros in India, playing poker tournaments sponsored by the company, and become the second player in the Global Poker Index Ranking (GPI), a patent-pending ranking system that classifies the world’s top poker players.
- Training needsQuoting, ‘Poker is an extremely easy to learn but extremely difficult to master’, Kunal says that it is very important to learn the game with research and practice.
- Profit and lossDeciding to playing poker as a career needs a lot of concentration, says Kunal.
- Bankroll is the amount of money that a player has to wager for the duration of his or her poker game like stakes.