How can i become a professional video poker player?

Question

prefer answer from people who actually pay their bills doing this.

Answer 1

Becoming a professional video poker player is a piece of cake.

Step 1.) Find out which games have a positive expectation (over 100% payback).

Step 2.) Find strategy charts for those games, then do your best to memorize them. Always take them with you to the casino in case you forget something, perfect play is essential.

Step 3.) Search out the city until you find every possible machine that has the correct payout.

Step 4.) Acquire a gigantic bankroll. The swings in video poker are enormous. You only hit a natural Royal Flush once ever 40,000 hands or so, and that's where the money actually is. You must have the cash to ride out a couple hundred thousand hands without hitting a Royal. That's a lot of scratch.

Step 5.) Sign up for players cards at every casino you're going to play at. Alway use them, and be sure to take advantage of casino promotions like 5X points days.

Step 6.) Get out there and play! Be sure to follow proper strategy.

Keep in mind, playing video poker for a living is NOT big money. It's more like something a retired person who's collecting pension should do for extra cash. You're not going to find too many (if any) machines that pay out well enough and are more than quarter machines. At max coin bet (which you must do) that's $1.25 a hand. Say you're playing Deuces Wild with a 100.8% payout (the most common machine over 100%). That means on average, you're win 80 cents for every $100 you play, of $.008 for every dollar. That's 1 cent per hand. So, if you play at a brisk 500 hands per hour, you'll make a whopping $5 an hour.  

Answer 2

Most people become professional after first doing it part time.  Eventually, they earn enough money that they can quit their jobs and live on those earnings.

Of course you have to question if that is really how you want to spend your time.  In a dark casino staring at a video screen for hours a day, several days a week.

For the vast majority of people it is not a viable way to make a real living.