Can gambling be taken as a profession?

[MVL~$]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

[electronicash]

haven't known someone yet who took gambling as his main source of income. he would be the most skillful person to make it if there is someone who successfully made it. unless we are talking about the dealer of the cards in the casino, i'm sure its his job already.

but it wouldn't be impossible to make it a constant flow of money for some bettors in sports, there have been many sports bettor who are experts in analyzing basketball matches or boxing matches and tells their bet picks to the public. he wins and at the same time, bettors gives him tips.

thats one way to make it a source of income.

[Igebotz]

Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online.

I want to draw our mind to the fact that even though gambling activities are on the rise due to a lot of factors, in my country, gambling is still prohibited from underage persons and these are persons who are below 18 years old. It means no gambling platform will allow a child to gamble online unless the child falsifies his age. This means online gambling is still not open to everyone.

Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

The fact that gambling is a game of probability makes it impossible for any rational-thinking person to make it a profession. Since a profession is what someone does to make earns meet, gambling can't be a profession because making profits from it is not guaranteed. Well, every profession has its attendant risks but in the case of gambling, the risk overclouds the gains so it cannot be taken as a profession. Even the rich who gamble have a means of making money that is not dependent on probability like in the case of gambling.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I believe that under no Circumstances should things be taken like this in the game , Playing at a professional level, my perception is that a player has to do it with more than $1M in the casino, and play to return it as an investment or a safe entry, I would not take it that way , because the truth is that it is a risk, a person with money or capital willing to lose, but let it be little, because that is something that I would do first, but consider the Professional game well It is not something that I see as viable.

I consider that things are very Different when it comes to casinos, but personally I don't regret that, unless you have a lot of money and want to experiment because that is another thing, but if you are a person who has everything well organized, who knows how much he should spend, well, it may be that he is heading towards that, but I personally consider a Professional when he manages those amounts , it is something very similar to trading.

[Altcoin1998$]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

Permanent income from gambling is not guaranteed because there is a guarantee that the amount of loss will be greater than the amount of profit that comes from gambling and no one can say for sure whether the profit will come permanently. Moreover, to be accepted as a profession, there must be a monthly profit like a certain amount of salary, but in gambling, there is no specific guarantee of monthly profit. So from my point of view gambling can never be a profession. Again gambling leads people astray and plays many roles in causing financial disaster to a family so gambling is a social curse as well as gambling is one of the main catalysts of economic disaster.

[Cryptsafe]

I really have not heard or seen anyone who claims to be a professional gambler that made it through gambling but rather a regular addicted gambler who just gambles to recover their losses and on some cases they gamble just for fun as the claim it to be so.  In my country where I am from, you telling people you are a professional gambler sounds like one not serious In life. Merely saying that alone could make people not listen or look towards your direction because they would see you as someone who is not ready to be responsible because it is a norm here that gamblers are irresponsible and are nothing to write home about. So if one is a professional gambler, one dares not say it because you will be asked to show your full achievements as you claimed to be a professional gambler  because proofs are what convinces people to follow up.

[famososMuertos]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

There is no coherence between your topic title and the OP's context, they are two totally different things.

That makes me think you are confused with the idea of income and being a betting professional.

The income is available to everyone, but paying the bills as being a professional player is a totally different fact and that ultimately qualifies as a high-risk profession, like going crab fishing (Alaska), which they say is one of the riskiest professions, but better paid ( up to USD 100,000 for five days of work).

Being a gambling player is a profession classified as one of the most risky.

On the other hand, I don't know in what "cave" you have been, the popularity of online casinos has been there, ever since even the last century and reached levels of popularity that have not been repeated since the first decade. (XXI)

Now, with the pandemic there was an increase, but that does not indicate that it is new.

[Zed0X]

~Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

Possible - Yes
Probable - No

Professional gamblers have been around for years and you can see them all over social media. For a regular guy that gambles for a living that have not been outed yet, they are definitely out there but not that many.

[$crypto$]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

I categorically say gambling cannot be used as a regular income, except for the bookmakers. If you make gambling a regular income, you will be ruined.

I suggest gambling just for fun, if then finally can win with a large amount it is just a bonus. Because if from the beginning to get a profit then we will probably always chase defeat. And in gambling if someone continues to chase defeat, then it will make us feel a bigger loss.

You can come once to gamble and remember to gamble with money that is ready to lose not money to fulfill the needs of life.

[DaNNy001]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

I don't like people saying that there is slight opportunity for anyone to make income through gambling. gambling is base on luck and there is no certainty that you can make a living through this infact I can argue it's the opposite of your thought when it comes to using it as a source of income. Although I have seen Many gamblers  say that there can actually make this possible but I will always argue this because am also a gambler and believe me securing consistent winning that could grant this achieve is just a dream that won't come true.

[Captain Corporate]

Maybe, but the reality is that there are way more people trying to turn this into a job then amount of people who can. A few people may end up trying to do this and actually end up doing it, but that would be very few and limited number of people and not a lot, whereas there are millions out there trying to make either enough income per month to live, or just one big huge win to retire. Almost all of the people who try will fail, the number of people who can achieve is so tiny that its like one drop of water in an ocean, so actually setting out to maybe do this is not really a smart thing. Use gambling for only fun, nothing more.

[Rubel007]

Gambling has started to gain a lot of popularity among people nowadays. Nowadays gambling has become so accessible that anyone can gamble online. Now it is so convenient that if you want identity at home, you can gamble secretly. Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

We all have to admit at this time that gambling is now accessible to everyone. Due to the spread of internet facilities, gambling is now easier for everyone than it was before. But even if gambling is available here or gambling is easy, can a gambler consider gambling as his profession? I personally think it's difficult because I've never seen anyone take up gambling as a profession. But they are making big income from gambling and also losing. Because of this uncertainty we cannot imagine gambling as a means of profession. But it is true that there are many who gamble professionally. After all it is not the case that anyone can become a professional gambler.

I think if a gambler has other means of earning then he can consider gambling as a career. But gambling cannot be considered as a profession for those who have no multiple income source.

[BitMaxz]

I don't think so, gambling is based on luck even if you are a professional gambler you can't beat the casino people are eventually lose in the end but those professional gamblers if they already made even a small amount of profit they will stop and take it unlike a normal players they aren't satisfied on small winnings they always greedy to make a huge winnings.
So I think it can be possible but for permanent income, I think that's not possible you can maybe able to make a permanent income if you join an affiliate and promote the casino with your gambling profession like making videos that you win on that platform and then adding with a referral link but playing on casino it won't makes you permanent income.

[philipma1957]

Well it all depends on what definition you use for gambling.  Webster's dictionary says it is risking money at unfavorable odds. Which if true it means eventually you will lose out.

How ever,

Poker has some skill which means that your odds may not be unfavorable. So a great poker player could win consistently.

[SamReomo]

Is it possible to make a permanent income through gambling? What is your opinion?

No, it's not possible to make permanent income through gambling because in gambling you also have to face losses and if you aren't lucky then the number of losses will be higher as compare to winnings.

Gambling is good for entertainment only but if you're lucky then you might win some jack pots but only rarely someone wins those jack pots or mega jackpots.

There is some potential to earn money in sports betting but still you can't consider it a permanent income. If someone's intention is to earn money then they should do something else than gambling.