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Originally Posted by YanasaurBBQ
Sorry that is all. Just needed to put my thoughts down. Nobody in real life I can tell this to that understands.
Man this is definitely the truth. Outside of this community people generally fall into one of two buckets. They either think we're all degenerate gamblers destined to lose our houses, or that we're either MIT level geniuses or savants that can see cards like Rainman, or just suckers at the table constantly losing to our better opponents. Like every single piece of poker media portrays it.
No one who hasn't done it realizes we're just constantly studying our asses off while playing for small edges and enduring gut wrenching swings and losing amounts of money that just doesn't happen outside of poker. I suppose stock traders might have some idea but many of the ones I know are quite delusional with regards to their abilities and actual profits.