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Originally Posted by Zele
Mic Man,
I'm sure Dynasty is aware that he could have been making a ton more online, and I don't see how that makes his decision to play live "wrong". Is it stupid for an applied math prodigy to pursue a career in academia when he could be making boatloads more money at a hedge fund? Or a driven and talented young lawyer to go into public service rather than a big time law firm?
These are awful analogies.
There are obvious moral, psychological, lifestyle, even spiritual reasons people might prefer the former occupations to the latter.
Live poker has none of these advantages over online poker.
The one genuine advantage live has over online poker is social contact, which, while not trivial, doesn't justify playing primarily live versus online.
And fwiw I never said he was "wrong". I said "irrational in the economic sense".
I have no problem whatsoever with how Dynasty chooses to live his life. It just irks me that people were using his story as finger-wagging example of what professional poker is "really like" in order to justify to themselves their boring real-world careers.