[rgold79]

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I agree with this sentiment.

Poker players today are in a unique place in time and space, and if they really want to be part of the larger world, they should try to connect in more real ways with things that aren't always related to gambling lots of money. The contest for Biggest Degenerate will never be won, so it would be far more enlightened to take that money and do something useful with it. (Edit: At least in the case of someone trying to pursue some version of religious enlightenment with or without poker).

I also think it's crazy that we have the unique opportunity to travel to lots of amazing places in the world, in near first-class style and with relative ease, and the only thing most poker players could tell you about those locations is how good the cash games were or how much they flipped for over dinner.

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Mr Sch. very solid as usual but I think it is all gambling mentality types that miss life. I have trading friends worth $300M who do NOT miss a day of work and when on holiday take monitors and screens so they can watch markets, a horse-racing mate who hasnt been outside Perth in 30 years cause he will miss a race...........addictives all are losers in life............

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Yeah, I never understood people who work 60 hours a work for 20 years just to become partner and earn the right to work 80 hours a week! All for the purpose of making lots and lots of money, but never enjoying it fully or using it to help anyone else. I went to HS with a lot of people who will probably go down like that, and that's a big part of the reason I didn't go to college (no possibility of winding up like that). I do work hard to try and achieve what I want and what I believe in, just not in that way.

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Lots of people work hard like this to provide for their families and to retire or to do whatever they want. I don't begrudge anyone who's willing to bust his ass for a paycheck, no matter how large. I have a lot of friends who pull 90 hours weeks who don't understand how someone could risk the possibility of not making next month's rent because of the turn of a card. We're all looking at things relative to our own position.