Why Do Professional Poker Players Still Live with Their Moms?

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Professional poker players have a 1-in-2 chance of divorce and a 1-in-30 chance of fatal heart attack! Compare these odds to being a timber cutter, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the most dangerous job in the United States. Over four years' time, a timber cutter would stand only a 1-in-200 chance of being killed.

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Everyone who is married has a 1 in 2 chance of getting divorced.

What is your source for a poker player having a 1 in 30 chance of a heart attack vs people in general?

And what does that have to do with a logger's mortality rate? And how does a 1 in 200 over 4 years compare to their chance of being killed in a 12 month period? Comparing poker players chance of a heart attack in one year is different than a logger's chance of death over 4 years.

Apples and oranges.

Also, commercial fishermen probably have an equal if not greater chance of injury or death as loggers, but your conclusion that poker players have the most dangerous job is the most humerous part of your post.

There was some humor in your post, but too much skewed statistics.

Your writing style needs improvement, also.

[snapfc01]

i'm confussed how you're paying for 2 for meals/drinks but still getting a hoooker... what's goin on here lol?

[LImitPlayer]

the 2 drinks and 2 meals are for the failed date, hence the need for a hooker

[Jefzter]

Who cares about 99.9% of his post, where can you get a hooker for only $180?!?!
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[iluzion]

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i'm confussed how you're paying for 2 for meals/drinks but still getting a hoooker... what's goin on here lol?

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I saw that too, but I figured it was less important than the fact its a stupid ass joke, which i definitly hope is what it was.

[BradL]

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(You didn't question $180 for a "Hooker"?????)

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Seriously, a hooker costs way more than $180.

-Brad

[augie00]

Double Bogie.

[James282]

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Why Do Professional Poker Players Still Live with Their Moms?
(And I don't mean you, Daniel Negreanu, so don't call to complain!)

My Poker Blog: http://mypokerroom.blogspot.com

In other words, professional poker works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. Notwithstanding the media's rhetoric about the million's of dollars available and the glamour of poker stardom, a player's "wages" are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. A low level pro has plenty in common with a McDonald's burger flipper or a Wal-Mart shelf stocker. In fact, most players also hold other jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy poker earnings. Most low level pros make aproximately minimum wage for every hour at the poker tables. And how many burger flippers end up with less money than they started with as a result of flipping burgers?

Consider the cost of a weekend playing poker in Las Vegas:
Flight: $440
2 Nights at MGM Grand: $450
Shuttle to the MGM: $9
Fri. Nite Dinner and Drinks for 2: $130
Two breakfasts: $22
Bar: $12
Monorail Passes: $26
Hooker: $180
Saturday dinner and Drinks for 2: $160
Taxis: $32
Various Other Food/Snack/Drinks: $50
Long-Term Parking at airport: $24
Total:$1,535.
How many minimum wage earners can afford that?

Along with the bad pay and high cost, poker players face terrible jobconditions.Forstarters,they have to sit in a poker room all day and do business with other players. Little or no family life, back problems, bad diet and the stink of smoke are some of the side benefits of sitting for 10 hour stretches at a poker table. Playing in home-games you also risk arrest and, more worrisome, violence.

Professional poker player s have a 1-in-2 chance of divorce and a 1-in-30 chance of fatal heart attack! Compare these odds to being a timber cutter, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the most dangerous job in the United States. Over four years' time, a timber cutter would stand only a 1-in-200 chance of being killed. Or compare the poker player s odds to those of a death row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. In 2003, Texas put to death twenty-four inmates-or just 5 percent of the nearly 500 inmates on its death row during that time. Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while playing in this year's World Series of Poker than you do while sitting on death row in Texas. So if professional poker playing is the most dangerous job in America, and if the salary is near minimum wage, why on earth would anyone
take such a job?



(Thank's to "Freakonomics" for the inspiration)
(To all the critics who do think I hate poker or don't like my math: IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY! I've played and at times loved poker for nearly 30 years.)
My Poker Blog: Click Herehttp://mypokerroom.blogspot.com

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In case you can't tell by now, this isn't very funny or insightful at all.
-James

[Alobar]

For a minute I thought I clicked the wrong link and wound up in OOT and was about to read a thread making fun of daryn.

Alas, it was just an unfunny post and some spam for some shmos blog. *sigh*

[jtr]

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Why would you get dinner for 2 and get a hooker?

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Spoken like Duffman.