Professional poker-> Is it a pipe dream?

[**MR.MANHATTAN**]

YES MOST DIED PENNILESS AND FORGOTTEN

[Loren]

Good point! My point is simply that if one uses a faulty premise, he must inevitably reach a faulty conclusion.

ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM Cicero

[758219]

"I know several brilliant people who could easily make $50 an hour playing cards but they don't because they make $100 an hour doing other things."

That's not true, as all people are idiot savants and savant idiots. I know no person who is very "intelligent" at something or overall who whouldn't be more or less an idiot at more than one area. I don't think there is any correlation at all.

[Warren Whitmore]

I couldent agree less. Read "The bell curve"

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Your reply completely misses the point. He's not making a generalization here, he's discussing specific people.