scorned online poker now huh? calm down there, most here can only play online poker:driver:
Not really. I mean not just online poker... Most of online activity is.
Ask yourself - what is that useful product that you create for yourself and for the society by playing poker. What is it? Is it service? Is it a product? Subjectively, you might be thinking about poker legends and high winnings, but objectively, even Phil Helmuth is nothing but a serotonin junkee, who was robbing those who wanted to rob him in a CARD GAME. Nothing else.
Phil Helmuth and other celebrities and other people related to "non gaming" part of the poker are doing useful thing for popularisating poker, and they're paid for that... it's their job, they work for the community and that part of the society pays them back. Most of the other types of "poker pros" falsely believe that poker is their job. It might be a source of income, but not a job.
Poker, games, movies, TV series... these things are designed to wash your life down in the toilet sewage. Think of the following.. 24hrs * 365 days = 8760 hours is one year... 100 years is 876K hours. 30% is sleep time, plus you have to eat, and do other things...
How much time you're going to spend on poker and what for? Majority of this time you'll spend generating rake for casino, that's one single positive side of the equasion named "online poker"... and it's the same for poker in general.
If one 100 year life is 876K hours, and 3 billions people have spent 3 hours watching Avengers movie, then what's the difference between such movie and some heavy bomb? This movie totally erased many millions of human hours for nothing.
and then
People are asking: "why I'm not a millionaire?" or "Why he has a yacht and a plane, and I only have a credit to pay for my old car and house."
WHy? Because he wasn't wasting his life... Instead of watching Game of Throne series, which lasts i think more than 40 hours, you can spend same 40 hours to learn new programming language or learn something else. Instead of spending 50K hours for poker, you could spend this time to learn and become a surgeon, and start saving lifes and be well paid instead of wasting your life for nothing.