What I Love Most About Poker

I was thinking today about the intense satisfaction I get from punishing fools at the poker table for their impatience/ignorance/stupidity/lack of emotional control.

Poker is such a joy to play. In real life, lazy ignorant people get paid to sit on their asses while others do their work for them. In today's America, the whiners, complainers and professional victims are coddled. In poker, there is no boss to report to, no office politics, no nepotism, no affirmative action.

Each person at the table is rewarded (in the long term) for his/her skill and knowledge. It's the purest form of capitalism I can think of. You live or die on your own merits and your bankroll doesn't much give a damn about your excuses.

Yep, that's why I love it. Because the very people who piss me off in every day life with their attitude of entitlement are usually the ones who are paying me off. What a great stress buster!