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Message: [QUOTE="Crystal Blue, post: 1243296, member: 46561"] Let me explain where I am coming from............ Lets look at it from the anti online poker establishments point of view looking in from the outside. To help explain my thought process lets use the following example. ( All hypothetical ) Player one = Married man with 2 children and a mortgage who plays perfect poker. Player two = Married man with 2 children and a mortgage who plays bad poker. Player one has a much better chance of being viewed by the anti establishment as someone who displays responsibility both to the game, and to his family because he plays perfect poker. Player two on the other hand, is the kind of player the anti establishment like to use as an example of irresponsibility due to his poor play. They get excited about player two because it's an excuse for them to imply that he could well be effecting his ability to properly provide for his family due to his poor poker play. He is the sort of player they like to use as ammunition when they claim average Joe is sitting at home in front of his computer frittering away monies playing a game of chance. They can't use that excuse with player one though. He is much more likely to be seen as someone who is displaying his skill and knowledge of the game, and is much less likely to be financially neglecting his family. Thus they have less ammunition to use in their quest against online gambling. Yes of course if everyone played perfect poker then luck/variance would become pivotal ( even I know that ) the only real winners would be the pokersites while the players would just be pushing their money around in circles forever more. My point is that the anti establishment brigade would have far less ammunition to use against online poker if online poker players were all perfect players. They sure would have a big party if all were bad players though. It's all hypothetical anyway as the scenario that all could play perfect poker will never happen. This is just my opinion on what Zach originally said. I hope that explains the way I see it, and it's just an opinion. [/QUOTE]

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