Re: Why do pros play with pros?
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There's another reason, too: it's actually much more difficult in a lot of ways for a very good player to play against a weak or novice player, because it's can be impossible to put them on a hand or predict their behavior. It's very common for an inexperienced player to make a stupid bet or call against a pro and then get away with it on a miracle card. The pro, of course, was thinking something like, "There's no way this guy calls an all-in reraise if all he has is the inside straight draw."
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That is true. But for every time the novice wins he looses his entire stack ten times to the pro.
I don't know why anyone insists on thinking this way. It's clear that any pro can, and will, take almost all dough from a clueless novice. Sure, it hurts when the novice draws out, but he draws out so rarely that the pro will make HUGE profits.
I think the real reason they mostly play each other is that there are so few fish at their level, but those fishes make it more than worth their time. They sit there shuffling chips back and forth waiting for the live one to sit down. And when he sits down he's going to be bled dry so fast it makes his head spin.
They play each other so that when a fish comes there is a game ready and waiting. If two fishes show up at the same time they'll probably start salivating.
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