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Originally Posted by AceofLaid
If you play poker every day there is 0 chance you don't have some form of addiction. Let's be real with ourselves here. That's like saying you shoot dope every day but because you make money hustling you dont have an addiction. It's absolutely ignorant
Edit: close to 0 chance. Something doesn't have to be a "problem" for it to be an addiciton
Also what werbear said. Negative word association makes people live in denile
It seems that you can't tell the difference between addiction and working hard. If someone you knew was working 60-70 hours a week to get a new business off the ground, would you call him an addict?. For some reason, if your job is playing cards, working the same number of hours is an addiction. I guess the world class bridge players out there better get some counseling.
I once had a job as a men's supervisor in a rescue mission. I had been between jobs before that, and money for our family was tight. It turns out that the mission had a very small staff, so if even one person was missing there were hours to be covered and I scooped up all of the voluntary overtime that I could get.
I worked a couple 60 hour weeks at the mission. I had some weeks where i covered so many shifts that I wound up working first, second and third shift all in the same week. Was I addicted to that job? I don't remember any withdrawal symptoms when I had a day or two off.
At another point in my life I was going to college, I was in an elite National Guard unit that met once a week and I had a full-time job. Hard work, not an addiction.
When I decided to make poker my job, I approached it with the same work ethic. I study at least 10 hours every week, I play online tournaments for at least 30 hours, and I add to that whatever administrative hours that I need to put in. And yes, sometimes I work all seven days in a week.
If you think about it, there are a lot of people that work long or strange hours. Why should poker be any different?
Last edited by Poker Clif; 09-21-2017 at 06:26 AM.
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