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Originally Posted by winnercircle
Poker doesn't ruin lives. People with addictive/degenerate/self loathing personalities ruin their lives. Poker just happens to be a medium for them to express it. If it's not poker, they'll do drugs, alcohol, pills, lotto tickets, or whatever else they can get their dopamine rush through.
I agree completely. I was a men's shelter supervisor in a rescue mission for 12 years, and I saw just about any kind of addiction you can imagine, including someone who grew his own "schrooms" in the upper penninsula of Michigan.
There are people who will do anything for a rush, including skydiving, stealing, fighting, or running a con.
We had one guy who explained to me how we went to the library, found a form for a retal agreement and printed it. Then he found someone to "rent" an empty house that he did not own.
Clearly this guy had enough brains and initiative that he could have held a "regular" job, but that's boring compared to the rush of the quick cash of getting the "rental deposit" and running a successful con.