First of all; If you are really believing poker is good for you, please read my post as subjective as you can.
I do believe that there are people who are very substantial/material and winning money does make them very happy and that it is "good" for THEM.
For me poker is all about the false imagination of having control to decide your move or being able to make a decision.
But after a couple of hundret of thousands of hands played,
every normal thinking intelligent person should realize that u in reallity have 0% of influence in the game.
Even if u make the right decision/play/move 100% of the time,
you CAN just be a winner a small % of the time.
but mostly you are ether on the lucky side, or on the unlucky side!
Maybe one thing that poker is
teachingyou, is that you dont have to make always the right decision to win.
Or better; you can FAIL at everything but still be a big winner by getting lucky.
(It also teaches you that you should accept losses by making right decisions in the game to be a winner in the long run)
But thats not a good thing for you or your live, that concept maybe works within the game with millions of decisions in one single session,
but never in life. Thats completely against the basis of society.
Becasue u will win only a small % of the time u have to invest too much time in the game unless you are really lucky.
on a side note:
Before some one comes up with having an "edge" is making you a winning player, where is the "edge" nowadays?????
Do you really believe there are still people NOWADAYS depositing $100-$500 not nowing at least basicly what they are doing.
NO, the edge is not in making your opponent fold or bluff him by some deeper thinking (level >3) or whatever.
Thats some brainless farytale ********!
(well, maybe and only in 100K NL or higher this may be a slightly bigger part of the game)
Serious money will only be won when two or more opponents having really strong hands and the "cards" on the table decide wich one will win (wich is always LUCK).
Every one who says other is an ignorant dreamer or a lier to himself (like many degenerate gamblers here on this forum are)
So basically, as you can imagine, poker was never good for me.
Yes i won in the game, but never even nearly enuff to retire or really use it.
BUT i lost friends, girlfriends, familie, career. Didnt had social activitys in general for years, becoming an unsocial bitter person etc..
I used to believe in the false imagination of the "long run". Investing all my time into a "game" in wich you HAVE to be lucky to win (and i am deffenetely NOT lucky).
Poker is never good for anybody, winning or losing.
It doesnt make you happy (not in the long run)!