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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
They spent 4 years of time and often tens of thousands of dollars to even get to entry level in those fields. Most managers in those fields did additional school (more time, more money).
That's not to say those can't be better choices for some or many people compared to poker.
no doubt that poker compare to many other professions are still easy money with low cost of education.
however you miss some fact. personal development of poker player while doing his job is quiet limited. beside having clue about things like EV (imo very important in life), games theory, basic algebra and statistic (at some level maybe more advanced data mining), poker player do not develop his personality much in field not related to poker, while when attending good uni, having good job in good environment where you interact with many of brillant individuals, all those things give you an advantage over poker player.
just look at personality of best poker players and personality of very successful businessmans, politicians, doctors, philosophers etc. poker players for me in most case, they are even not close to others. of course, is subjective opinion and it's even not confirmed by empiric experience. just what I want to say, that poker is just choice of life, often easy one. the life when quiet inteligent person , choose on of the most easy path to get relatively quick rewards while putting less afford possible. so, seems logic yeh? but when it coming back to expected value of long term, I doubt is most +EV decision for some inteligent individuel which want to have something more then money in life.
yet, still I think, playing poker for a living in some period of time can be very reasonable choice, but would rather considering it like some phase of life which we done and we close one day for moving forward.
all of this it's my very subjective opinion which I think is right. but, is very individual choice. after all, for sure there are some people on this world which are just in FU**ING CRAZY LOVE FOR POKER