Re: An Unprecedented Time: Teenagers and Poker
[ QUOTE ]
lol no. "Not very good" = losing player, guaranteed.
[/ QUOTE ]
ok, by not very good i meant in comparison to a truly great player, like how i made the sports analogy. some guy who is a solid c grade athlete doesn't make anything, whereas a solid c grade poker player easily makes 6 figures/yr. of course he still has to be better than the other c grade players but he gets to that level by just caring about the game more than the other c grade players, he doesn't need any god given talent.
and my overall point was that you can't really compare athletes/stockbrokers making a lot of money at a relatively young age to the poker phenomenon, because poker is a lot less exclusive. the potential societal effect isn't really cos of the couple of hundred guys at the top making millions. it's more to do with the 50,000 guys noone has ever heard of winning and then donating back considerable 5 figure sums often before they have ever had a fulltime job (or had sex!), and what a bizarre situation that really is.
|