RidersFan
Legend
Silver Level
alienat3d
easy-going alien grinder
Bronze Level
It's like asking a junkie "why is your drug so attractive for you?"
Well maybe a little bit exaggerate said, but still..
Well i don't know actually. But it isn't money indeed. I mean, i'm happy to have that possibility in poker to grow up in limits and play for bigger stakes, eventually having big wins, withdraw it and buy something nice as a benefit for good play. You hardly can do that in any other games. But that's not a main thing for me. I love a competitive nature of poker, it's complexity, where psychology comes along with simple math. It's most interesting board game i ever played either. And you can develop yourself playing better in it till the end of your life. And this is the thing. This is a possession of poker. But you know what, there are so many people who don't play poker, don't like poker and have no idea, why poker can be so attractive. And simply because poker is not in their blood, like it is for us in this forum. So in conclusion i can say only: either you are a poker player and then it's for a life-time or you arn't.
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Machidon7
Rock Star
Silver Level
For me poker is attractive because it allows me to live my life like I want, be my own boss, and I can compete against other people and test myself .
If poker didn't involve money it wouldn't be the same ,but i would still play and enjoy myself .
I have great memories of playing poker ,with my familly and with my friends, without playing for big bucks.
Thank God for poker. :cheers:
If poker didn't involve money it wouldn't be the same ,but i would still play and enjoy myself .
I have great memories of playing poker ,with my familly and with my friends, without playing for big bucks.
Thank God for poker. :cheers:
paulinhlt
Rock Star
Silver Level
Yes man, pokerlifestyle is veru cool..u travel around the world playing poker..is great job
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Badbunny
Rock Star
Silver Level
because it is the only game in which the hazard counts but not with such a high percentage and the one that you gain or lose basically this one in your hands asique the best of the poker is the moves are learned well since many of these tend to happen often.
AlayneBarros
Rock Star
Silver Level
I think even without poker involvement poker would still be interesting because I played poker for two years without being real money.
1putnik
Rock Star
Silver Level
Yes, even if dont take in mind money question, poker is a rush game, as for me, I played poker on play chips not for one year
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Rational Madman
Legend
Platinum Level
Answer to primary question
What draws me to poker is the beauty of what it allows. I don't give a damn about Islam or what it says about gambling, gambling (especially in the form of poker) is one of the most morally correct ways to make money. It not only inherently does this by teaching you discipline but the entire process is good for you in many, many ways. It increases your overall IQ (unless you stick to slow paced software/tables) because of the amount you need to take into account in a given time, multi-tabling to 3 is a good way to push this as you're reading into one table, distracted by another and at the same time need to consider the third.
Poker is beautiful for another reason though, and this reason is entirely intricate to poker alone and is something that no other form of gambling offers other than perhaps Bridge (assuming you are in a real competitive pairing, not playing individually and just randomly paired). This reason is that you are actually doing a service when you win and a service when you lose. Whether you win or lose you're firstly upkeeping the establishment, be it a site or real casino. This is more relevant in your tipping of dealers in games (the casino takes the rake, they don't pay it to the dealer, they make over half their living from the tips given, the exception is in tournaments because tipping doesn't happen there so they are paid wages for that). Aside from this, when you beat people, even if it is a bad beat, you teach them lessons about emotional resilience and, if it was a good beat, you inspire them to improve at the game to 'be as good as him/her(you)'. When you lose to people, you do them a service as you are paying them if they make a living from poker or you are keeping the fish coming back if it was a suckout.
This means no matter what, you know you are doing great things when playing poker. Screw the haters, this is my way of making cash for now and perhaps for my whole life.
Answer to latter question
Poker cannot work without either 'money' or 'fake money' so the concept of poker without something that matters in the SAME WAY AS money (such as your ranking on a free site with visible fake bankroll to make it competitive) is pointless. A valuable number that equates to what money is to the human subconscious is innate to poker. Gambling means nothing if you cannot numerically lose something you badly want to gain instead.
What draws me to poker is the beauty of what it allows. I don't give a damn about Islam or what it says about gambling, gambling (especially in the form of poker) is one of the most morally correct ways to make money. It not only inherently does this by teaching you discipline but the entire process is good for you in many, many ways. It increases your overall IQ (unless you stick to slow paced software/tables) because of the amount you need to take into account in a given time, multi-tabling to 3 is a good way to push this as you're reading into one table, distracted by another and at the same time need to consider the third.
Poker is beautiful for another reason though, and this reason is entirely intricate to poker alone and is something that no other form of gambling offers other than perhaps Bridge (assuming you are in a real competitive pairing, not playing individually and just randomly paired). This reason is that you are actually doing a service when you win and a service when you lose. Whether you win or lose you're firstly upkeeping the establishment, be it a site or real casino. This is more relevant in your tipping of dealers in games (the casino takes the rake, they don't pay it to the dealer, they make over half their living from the tips given, the exception is in tournaments because tipping doesn't happen there so they are paid wages for that). Aside from this, when you beat people, even if it is a bad beat, you teach them lessons about emotional resilience and, if it was a good beat, you inspire them to improve at the game to 'be as good as him/her(you)'. When you lose to people, you do them a service as you are paying them if they make a living from poker or you are keeping the fish coming back if it was a suckout.
This means no matter what, you know you are doing great things when playing poker. Screw the haters, this is my way of making cash for now and perhaps for my whole life.
Answer to latter question
Poker cannot work without either 'money' or 'fake money' so the concept of poker without something that matters in the SAME WAY AS money (such as your ranking on a free site with visible fake bankroll to make it competitive) is pointless. A valuable number that equates to what money is to the human subconscious is innate to poker. Gambling means nothing if you cannot numerically lose something you badly want to gain instead.
