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Originally Posted by PokerPlayer80
I remember when I was like early-to-mid-20s during the poker boom and I would see some of these "pros" on TV and I would be so insanely jealous of them.
I bought hook, line and sinker that these players were insanely talented individuals who were just swimming in money playing a silly little game.
Now, you realize that so many of these players were total frauds. They were basically WWE characters pretending to be something they were not. Many of them are not even good players, they would be nowhere without their stolen or borrowed money, and they really live a pretty sad and pathetic existence by spending their days more cash poor than some 19-year-old college student.
This. Most of these guys made a ton of money during what we now know was a poker "bubble" and lived well beyond their means. Evidently they thought that they could just play TAG poker for their entire careers and get paid $30+ per hour just to grind on full tilt. Somehow they failed to realize that this boom period wouldn't last forever and that money doesn't fall from trees. The most sucky part of all for players like Lindgren is probably the realization that not only do they not have nearly as much money as they once thought they did, but they aren't even
that good at poker. The internet generation makes players like Negreanu and Lindgren only slight winners anymore, if that.