One of the biggest pitfalls of being a professional online poker player is staying healthy.  Live poker players have a hard enough time, but at least they have to walk through a casino to get to the table.  Online players, on the other hand, only need a 400 square foot studio apartment to get by. Schedule Perhaps the best part about being a full-time online poker player is the freedom to be your own boss and keep your own hours.  Feel like waking up at three in the afternoon and playing poker until sunrise the next morning?  You can if you want.  Despite the opportunity you have to make crazy hours, however, I don’t recommend it.  Try to stick to a fairly regular schedule, including sleep.  Keeping an irregular schedule can be very hard on both the body and mind. You can run into the same situation with online poker.  If you're up until the wee hours of the morning one day, barely play the next day, and then play during daylight hours another day, your body will have trouble acclimating.  Even if the times you like to play are when the rest of your neighborhood is asleep, try to stick to some ...