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Originally Posted by Darraess
All these people who are admired in some way or another, use deception and lies to leech money from the inexperienced and weak.
Gambling as a profession is by no means a moral profession.
The best one can expect morally, are gray areas.
It is realistic for someone to believe that the most successful ones are those that have no moral qualms and can freely step beyond the gray areas, and in this line of business if you are not on the gray side you can only be on the black side.
No surprise for me.
I don't agree with this at all. Every profession has it's crooks and scumbags who will do anything for money (or with money), from doctors (Micheal Jackson's, for one) to professional athletes to lawyers to CEOs to politicians to used car salesmen to poker players. That does NOT mean that everyone in the profession, or that everyone as the top of their profession, is crooked or immoral.
I concede that many poker players at the top of the food chain do some very strange things with money (playing underrolled, selling pieces, bracelet bets, etc.) Some of those things could indeed affect the integrity of the game, for example, if you had an investment or bet involving someone at your table.
But that's not everybody. As far as I know, Kathy Leibert has never done any of those things, and she's done very well. I'm sure that there are many others like her, who, because they're not a degenterate, or hot, or flashy, or annoying, don't get same amount of publicity as a Bellande or Hellmuth or Tony G.
Last edited by Poker Clif; 10-21-2011 at 03:53 PM.
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