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Originally Posted by SNGplayer24
god forbid people try to do something and fail! how would being a successful poker player be a negative? If you say you would take a college grad from an ivy league school over a successful poker player(someone whos made significant money) I think your insane.
Playing poker and running a business are two completely different skillsets. The main difference, which I think is a fault of the majority of poker players, is that you have to do **** when you don't want to do it. In poker, you can just take days off randomly, wake up whenever you want, work some hours here and there, basically work whenever you feel like it and still be very successful. If you bring that same attitude to running a business, it's going to fail close to 100% of the time. You have to wake up and bust your ass on days when there's nothing you would hate doing more. This is why I would choose an Ivy league college grad over a random "successful" poker player(What does this even mean? Like how much money needs to be made to be qualified as successful? It's not that hard to make a living player poker). Someone who graduated from an Ivy league college has already shown the ability to do **** they don't want to do. They've woken up for classes when they didn't want to, written papers when they didn't want to, worked with other people at some point or another, and have shown the ability to balance their time. All this over a period of at least 4 years. You need a decent idea to start a business, but it's alot more about the amount of work you put into it than "figuring things out" imo, and graduating from an Ivy league school shows more of that than being successful at poker.