Work relations of professional poker players: from daily work to player health

Abstract

The overall objective of the research was, therefore, to understand the working relationship of professional poker players at the time of career recognition in the light of Psychosociology from a parallel with the management policies developed in strategic organizations. Data collection consisted of individual interviews and analysis of the works of professional poker players to elucidate the points that comprised the analysis proposed by the research objectives. The discussion presented by the research ends up being an alert across the profession that is in wide development and thus deserves full coverage both in their legal, administrative as well as its accounting aspects, and in the sense of knowledge committed to workers’ health (such as medicine, psychology, physical therapy, etc.), aiming to equip the development of better structures in relation to the conditions and the organization of work, so that players who are engaged daily in the professional poker game exercise can enjoy a better quality of life and health.