1 thousand dollars or more

It depends. If you live outside the US you can start with as little as 100. If you play No Limit you can start for 100 in the US as well. (If you play limit you’ll need more since some bonuses aren’t as easy for limit players) has bankroll guides for how to start as a pro player for those kind of bankrolls, so check those out.

Ideally you should start with about 1,200 and get a good rakeback deal from a site like on a site like Cake. But you can start with much less, you just have to grind away at bonuses.

very simple YOU need enough funds to cover you for the year !

Playing limits no higher than $20 – $40 and play to make money every day in 10 hr sessions !

Realistically i know people that play for aliving YOU need a minum starting bank roll of $50,000 and very strict self control to stop playing once you lose $500 !

Stop after winning $200 for the day thats your goal

200 per day 5 days a week = $52,000 per year !

ONCE again YOU must stop once you made your days pay !

DO NOT think in present think future !

Also only play in real time ! leran to read the physical actions of your foes !

Rule written in stone if you cant spot the fish in 1st 30 mins at the table then YOU are the fish and the sharks will eat you alive !

Also walk away after a bad beat ! They are going to happen deal with it laugh it off walk around do not talk about it with others they do not want to hear another bad beat story !

NEVER play on tilt DO not gun after a person because they chased you with a gut shot str8 draw and you had trips in 1st 4 cards !
AIt is going to happen the weak bad players are your bread and butter the ones who chase for flushes and str8′s vs the pairs will soon go broke !

They are bad gamblers and when thier luck runs out thier chips will flow to your stacks like a wild river !

Rember Now you playing to Make money NOT Win it !

Treat it as a business !

It’s not how much you win in any day it’s how much you SAVED by not calling that raise when you know your chances of winning are slim !

That depends on what limit you have conquered.

Most people say that you want somewhere around 1000 big blinds at whatever limit you plan on playing at to cover the long run.

I recommend playing at if you’re planning on doing this. I hear they favor the people who play there more frequently for the bad beat.

whatever you can afford to lose, most sites have limits you can put in like 500 a day 2000 a week, but the fact is if you are not winning becouse that is how most pros get started by playing for entertainment and they win and use their winnings as their bankroll. good luck and see you at the tables

I would start with 300$. Its enough to see if you are good or no.

There’s a big difference between how much you need to get started and how much you need to quit your job and make a living off of poker.

For example, I started with $5 in my account on Pokerstars and now have a bankroll that’s plenty larger enough to play for a living. But I certainly could not have quit my job and went pro with $5, and it took me awhile to get to the point I am now.

My suggestion is to start with whatever you feel comfortable LOSING and see what you can do. That may be $100, $500, or $5,000. Sit at games you are properly bankrolled for, and see how you do. (In other words, don’t sit down at the $2/$4 NL table with $100). In you find that you are making enough money to live off of at a particular limit, you can think about going pro AFTER you have built an appropriate bankroll.

For example, say you’re making $20 an hour playing six $1/$2 no limit tables at one time. The max buy in at those tables is $200, and you must have 20 buy-ins backing you up to consider yourself properly bankrolled as a professional. That’s $4,000. No, since you’re multi-tabling, I’d suggest you have at least double that before you go quitting your job, so $8,000 would really be a minimum.

Now let’s say you’re not that great at multi-tabling, but if you focus on one table you can beat the higher limits. Let’s say you can make $20 an hour playing $3/$6 no limit. The appropriate bankroll for sitting at that table is 20 times the max buy-in of $600, or $12,000.

Good luck to you. Just remember that it’s better to be on the more conservative side (lower limits and higher bankroll) than the more aggressive side (high limits, low bankroll). Even the best players in the world have downswings, and if you can’t weather them, you can’t go pro, period.