My typical day

[SamIAm]

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I would assume people on this board won't consider poker as gambling?

[/ QUOTE ]Ed Miller says it is gambling.

[/ QUOTE ]Duh. It's putting money at risk with the potential to win more. I think the compulsion, knowledge, and EV of the situation are largely what differentiates "Gambling for a living" and "Having a gambling problem".

I don't think using tylenol shows a drug problem, but it's still a drug.
-Sam

I believe this is what the population refers to as "sarcasm".

[jrz1972]

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Am I wasting my life here?

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If you really like poker and love what you're doing, the answer is no.

But given that you've looked for a "real" job before and given that you're posting about it on a message board, I'm thinking the answer is yes.

(On a somewhat related note, I don't know how much programmers earn, but I'm guessing that anybody with the intelligence and discipline to consistently beat 10/20 could earn more than $20k per year in some other line of work.)

[TrueBritt]

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I accept poker as a career providing a service for other players to compete against but that's a stretch that took me 15 years to achieve.

[/ QUOTE ]That is SUCH a stretch, to the point that maybe it should count as a lie. I think you have to face the fact that you don't construct or provide anything in your line of work. That's ok; there are lots of jobs that earn money but don't necessarily add to society. But don't pretend you're "providing a service".
-Sam

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We provide the same service that Casinos do: entertainment. That's why people play blackjack, and that's why they play poker. They play for fun.

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We provide the same service that Casinos do: entertainment. That's why people play blackjack, and that's why they play poker. They play for fun.

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Sure, and they can play for fun against other people who are playing for fun, or they can play for fun against people who are constantly studying to improve at taking their money. This "we provide a service" line is pretty amusing to me. Remove all the 2+2ers from Party Poker and you'll certainly have more enjoyable and less costly games for the fish. Expert players ruin the experience just enough to make money, but not enough to scare the fish away entirely, and they use variance as a smoke screen. Let's not kid ourselves.

[chessforlife]

what is wasting life?

[Mason Hellmuth]

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what is wasting life?

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Not enjoying it?

[FlFishOn]

"Am I wasting my life here? "

You're wasting your kid's lives. Get them out of daycare. You should be ashamed.

[celiboy]

Let me get this straight

1.You husband is a professor and therefore makes a very good income - enough to support you and your kids comfortably.

2. You gamble all day while your kids are in daycare which is likely costing you $500+ a month after tax.

That's pathetic

"What you call wasting, I call living...I'm living my life!"

[/Seinfeld quoting]