Pretty dope Finnish multi-part documentary on pro poker players:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUg8gwMsBdo.
Can definitely relate to riding out the periods of runbad and just waiting until things turn around again (patience), and emotional control (discipline). Feel like I could be up there with the very best if I played online full-time but alas my life trajectory has taken me to "contributing to society." :P I will have to settle for semi-pro for now.
But I wonder: if I got rich playing, could I have an even greater impact with the money I earned? Or is my actual work, through which I apply my legal experience, more impactful? It's so hard to measure the opportunity costs of these very qualitatively different things. I can try.
Let's say if I quit my job I could earn $500,000 a year playing poker online and live five years from now and could donate $500,000 to fund important criminal justice reform efforts and potentially hop back into some legal role again, even if in an advisory capacity or on a board. Would that be worth being out of the legal scene during that period and contributing very little of my expertise to clients, attorneys, and organizations? Then there is the personal toll of the inevitable downswings, awkward sleep schedules, not feeling like I am benefitting society, parental disapproval, etc. I wonder.
About to start episode two...quite motivating, for anyone trying to make it big in poker.
Last edited by DumbosTrunk; 12-09-2021 at 12:31 AM.