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i can see your point for sure, but 24 after graduation and initiation to the real world is different to 15-18 and not being able to wait to be legal in vegas so you can go and dump money being a balla with all the other cool kids.

i don't even mean that "omg people are making so much money and going to be so rich". i mean that they have access to so much and are taking it for granted and throwing it away, and it won't last forever and is really a bizarre situation.

like with the 200NL thing, i didnt mean half decent 200NL grinders actually ARE sitting there making 6 figures a year. just that they easily COULD be, without even needing any sort of intellectual brilliance, just the discipline to not piss it away... and that collectively the majority of us will look back on the situation and think w t f

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Fair enough, 15-18 definitely is very different from 24. Still, the number of 15-18 year olds making 6 figures from poker is probably dwarfed by the number of 15-18 year olds making 6 figures from daddies trust fund or whatever -- rich young kids who don't really understand the value of money are hardly something new to the poker boom.

As for people who COULD make lots of money at poker, if only they had the discipline: It's true, but anybody COULD make 100k+ per year, entirely without poker, if they had the discipline. It's not like it really requires that much brilliance to work your ass off, go to a good college, and become a doctor or lawyer or engineer. Certainly anyone who is not inherently pretty stupid could manage it, given enough determination. The thing that holds the vast majority of people back in life is not a lack of intelligence or relevant skills, it's lack of discipline and determination. So yes, these folks could make 100k+ -- but they only have the least important part of what's needed, and lack the most important. Sure they are taking it for granted and throwing it away and it won't last forever -- but this is not very different from the folks who had the smarts to go to that ivy league school (or maybe just the good state school) and instead didn't buckle down in high school and will wind up making much less throughout their whole lives as a consequence. Or those that are more interested in partying than studying in college, or whatever.