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Personally I agree. However, there is a major but. A writer on a European poker website expressed it much better than I can when he said :

"Online poker sites use clever marketing to convince new players that the keys to being successful at poker are not maths, discipline and experience, but bravery, guts and an ability to read people."

Substitute "TV uses the big game players" into the first line, promote this myth wherever we can, ???, profit.

It makes me very happy to think about how much money I have made playing against people who buy into this myth and think maths is just for nerds.

So of course it isn't admirable. But it may be very much in our interest to pretend that it is.