live 08 player ages

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The TV revolution shows the excitement of playing big bet poker. Big bet poker for the young (hope of quick riches) is mezmerising. Talk to some young people getting out of high school or college and ask them where they expect to start salary wise with their first employment. They will have high expectations for starting out. Their parents and society have fostered them to expect to start out at the high end of the income chain and go up. None of them expect to start out in the training trenches and work their way up.

Why should they go into a game that offers a long term grind for a profit (once they have the experience).

They want to go for the high risk and high reward from NLHE. Go to any casino and the young guns go to (a) the NLHE tourny sign ups or (b) NLHE cash games. They bet big, make risky bluff plays and (a) go broke or (b) get a big stack. When they get a big stack, they move to a higher limit and try for the parlay up. Then they repeat the cycle. They move the money up the food chain. Occassionally one will get schooled along the way and begin to actually play poker but they rarely move into the diversity of poker. They are one trick poneys. When they go broke, they mooch off friends or use some other hustle to get back in the game.

They are "players." They don't spend time to "LEARN" poker.