"There are no real winners in poker". One of the times when you should look at the messenger as well as the message. I bet its a different opinion if your friend was successful at both poker and business.
"If they're smart enough to make a living playing poker, could infinitely make more in other endeavors of life". Again, rather presumptuous. Making money is not just about being smart. Poker is one of the times it's likely true because consistently outsmarting the competition is likely to be correlated with your level of success. There are a lot of smart people in dead end jobs.
"Right way to spend a life". A lot of this is about your reasons for getting into poker in the first place. Same goes for just about any other profession. We could all dwell on the dark side of any given profession and never do anything. Some poker player get successful and move on to other things. Others truly enjoy doing what they are doing and can't see themselves doing anything else.
Truth is, its all personal and is not peculiar to poker. That's the reason why Colman's behavior is not terrible. He maintained a certain psychology and perception to the game framed from previous experiences and that is responsible in part for his success. Expecting him to ditch his beliefs and act in a certain way is rather shortsighted.
"There are no real winners in poker". One of the times when you should look at the messenger as well as the message. I bet its a different opinion if your friend was successful at both poker and business.
"If they're smart enough to make a living playing poker, could infinitely make more in other endeavors of life". Again, rather presumptuous. Making money is not just about being smart. Poker is one of the times it's likely true because consistently outsmarting the competition is likely to be correlated with your level of success. There are a lot of smart people in dead end jobs.
"Right way to spend a life". A lot of this is about your reasons for getting into poker in the first place. Same goes for just about any other profession. We could all dwell on the dark side of any given profession and never do anything. Some poker player get successful and move on to other things. Others truly enjoy doing what they are doing and can't see themselves doing anything else.
Truth is, its all personal and is not peculiar to poker. That's the reason why Colman's behavior is not terrible. He maintained a certain psychology and perception to the game framed from previous experiences and that is responsible in part for his success. Expecting him to ditch his beliefs and act in a certain way is rather shortsighted.
Sept. 8, 2014 | 9:40 p.m.