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This game is intellectual, and therefore elitist. Politicians, diplomats, businessmen, actors, athletes willingly spend time at the card table and everyone finds something in poker. Poker UNITES us ! The game teaches patience, making quick optimal decisions, trains endurance, observation, memory, logic, intuition. Poker is a great training that teaches you to read the emotions and behavior of others and accept people for who they are; develops courage and self-confidence; teaches you not to overestimate the role of money in life and structure your time.
Top engineers/programmers/actors and other TOP people in other industries earn much much more than poker players do. You're playing poker because it's easy to do, you don't have to lift your bottom from a chair and you don't have to think much FOR A CHANCE TO WIN 1000 BUY-INs for that 1st place in that big MTT you're playing.
But what will be the product that you've created for the society and for yourself? Nothing? Oh yeah, you've spent the time for a chance and you've got some really cheap logical explanation given to you by poker bosses, to keep you playing at the tables and to keep you inviting your friends to spend the money. You're playing poker just because you believed in Santa, one day you've realised that Santa is a myth designed to keep you happy and to buy those useless Christmas gifts for someones profit. IF you're satisfied with design of the myth, and see no lies in it, then it will keep you happy. If your mind will ever grow up from position of "myth consumer" up to position of "myth creator" then you'll understand me better.
Several years ago, being 30+y.o. after spending approx 8 years playing poker, I've invested my time into learning new things like programming, 3d design, metalworking and so on... I've also invested
bankroll to buy tools, garage and part for the machines, and built several cnc machines. These machines work and create useful products that I can sell, I did most of the job when I've started it, and I'm also doing some job by designing and programming new products. You can do the same or even better. It's much much more interesting and more profitable time spending, it's not based on the luck. There are like 20 easy to do types of business, some of them are based on chemistry, others include physics, others include machines. But LOL I know 3 types of profitable business types that people can start with $100 investments and 1 square meter of surface. And it's easy to find info by browsing related forums.
Ask yourself, who earns more money for the time spent? The poker player who has to sit at the table or the owner of this machine, who has to wait 20 hours to get 12 products done? He can spend these 20 hours doing whatever he wants, while his machine works.
I see 12 wood logs turned into 12 statues each worth $30-100, and total money spent for energy and wood was like $20-30 for 20 hours of machine work.
Now, if you can be real about things and quit thinking about actors and sportsmen at the poker table and the 3-decisional strategy and logic LOL, and come down to your personal life. What will be your next step? Can you create a plan for the next 5-10 years of your life and make it a real multi-step strategy which will be a real road to success? Or it's better to stay where you are and keep fingers crossed for a chance to win that 1st place? :hmmmm2: