pokerstars and everestpoker also have tournaments forfree where you can play and earn money and start scalating tournaments little by little, I have a friend who earns a couple thousand dollars each money and lives only out of poker
though it's quite stressfull life, he smokes a lot and plays 9 tables at once.
Lol, you really think we are going to believe you? There is no way he is earning thousands of dollars from playing free tournaments. Others are saying they give like 1k sat to 20k sat maximum, which is no way near thousands of dollars.
Or probably your friend is abusing the free offer and probably breaking their tos by using multiple accounts to abuse their free tournament.