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Originally Posted by Strongsville
I never have and never will enjoy poker. I even find it morally wrong to play. What keeps me going is the idea of being able to make money from home and making your own schedule.
Although it's not quite the same, this kind of reminds me of a conversation I had with a literature major at university many years ago. He had already read a great number of literary classics (20 years later, I may have almost caught up to the books he read in college). He proclaimed that he didn't enjoy reading any of the books he studied, and he didn't have any interest in reading for pleasure. He read only to understand.
Not only did I find this sad/pathetic, I also saw it as a fundamental error. If you can read a book like Don Quixote and not enjoy it, then you can't claim to understand it AT ALL. But then, that's academia for you.
Now, back to poker, if you take a completely passionless approach to the game, and have no apparent real interest in the game beyond the notion that it's some kind of ticket to free money (which is hardly the case), then there's a good chance that your game is flawed. I think you have to love the game on some level to become something more than competent.
By the way, if you ever catch yourself making absurd statements such as "poker isn't gambling," you may really be straying off the path. (No one's said that yet, but ya never know).