Gamblers or not gamblers?

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Take 100 'gamblers' with good poker skills + give them all bankrolls of 10K. Come back in 5 years and you'll have 1 top class poker player earning millions a year in some of the biggest games around, and 99 guys will have 0.

Take 100 'non gamblers' with good poker skills and give em all 10K. Come back in 5 years and 99 will be successfully grinding out a modest income at the party 20/40, posting on 2+2 in their spare time. The other guy was the unlucky one.

Which one is better? The first of course! In answer to the questions, the gambler is likely to be the better player because, all other things being equal, the fact he's going to be playing a lot more poker will give him more experience. The second is more likely to be able to make it professionally, but no where near in as big a way as the first is able to.