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Message: [QUOTE="ILIKEFISH31, post: 2398690, member: 108238"] I spent some time in the chess community before finding and falling in love with poker. You would be absolutely astonished at how the average, non poker playing person perceives this amazing game that we play. Their perception of the game is so dumbed down and simplistic that it's basically an insult. They all seem to have this idea that chess is so superior to poker intellectually and it's mainly because they have absolutely no understanding of how to really play poker. Sure, they know bet - raise - fold and they understand a minuscule about positioning, but that's just about all they understand or even think there [I]is[/I] to understand about poker. I'm partially attracted to this game because I'm taking a shot at becoming successful at something so, so many try but fail at. I am willing to bet that a large, large portion of the people who play poker "casually" tried to make it more than that at one point and just flat out failed. I'm not bashing them as there is a good chance that I will fail, too ...but I'm definitely going to give it 110% for several years and see what I come up with. Poker is harder to improve at than many other things since you don't often get the solution to the problem played out in front of you and therefore it's hard to know what the right decision was in retrospect. Sometimes you just have to speculate. In just about every other venue in life, you know when you made a mistake and you know what that mistake was. Poker isn't as candid with you and I think this (among other facts) makes it one of the most complicated venues one could get themselves involved in. [/QUOTE]

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