[da1prophet]

Originally Posted by Freelancer

Hey spect nice to see you here.

Its interesting that I don't view most poker players as crooks however incompetent probably encompasses like 95% of the poker community. Poker has a way of tricking a lot of people into thinking they'r the next poker god and its the only reason why its still very very profitable. Right now it feels like steeling candy from a small child for me, which obviously feels wrong. Often the more professional students of the game are smart and intelligent people and most of them are morally very strong, this may sound awkward but the regular prof. poker player is NOT a bad person. I do think now that they don't realize what damage they are doing to the society, sure if they quit than more will replace them eventually however they still share a responsibility...

The idea of creating a blog to educate the masses about poker and allow them a chance to protect there candy makes me feel better. When I play poker now I always have this seed of doubt in the back of my mind, it just doesn't feel right. Now I never had this problem before, I just figured that they where risking there money voluntarily so it was ok for me to take it. A common feeling a lot of prof. poker players share is (and I used to as well);
'its immoral to let a sucker keep his money'
Or thats the idea I'm getting lately, offcourse its completely offbase because these suckers often don't realize that they'r effectively bleeding money away slowly to the rake/better players.

I think that educating the masses on how to beat the rake/game is closer to the light side of things than playing poker and taking the money directly. I also enjoy explaining poker strategy a lot, and I never mind to talk about it with other poker players if they'r atleast fairly knowledgable. It feels great to pass on knowledge that you spend so much time and energy on to learn yourself. Don't understimate the time and energy it takes to become good at poker, I wouldn't be suprised if I spend more time studying poker than anything else in the past 4-5 months. It would be a shame if that time and energy spend goes to total waste, now I also developed some personal character traits that will help me in my future life but a lot of the knowledge is not applicable to 'normal' life.

To summarize, I am going to create this blog and feel good about it. I will make it the best single best free online strategy available on the net (besides maybe twoplustwo) and I'm not going to selfsabotize this attempt. I feel better about this now, and I won't be playing poker seriously for monetary gains anymore (playing it with friends for fun and entertainment is a different story).



Edit; Both of you thanks for responding here, I appreciate it. This has been bugging my mind for a while now...

Drop me a line when you get your blog up--I'll be happy to link to it and help promote it ; )