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[QUOTE="Egon Towst, post: 483388, member: 11768"]
Not at poker, but I have at snooker.  (For American members who may not know, snooker is somewhat like pool but played on a larger table with smaller pockets, and therefore needs a high degree of accuracy.)
 
I used to be a keen player and have won an amateur tournament.  A pro came to our club one day, John Pullman (retired now, but a former world champion and among the top ranked players in the world at the time I met him).  The other club members put me up to play him, because I was supposed to be the best player there.
 
He wiped the floor with me, cleared the table while chatting to the spectators and apparently not even paying attention to the game.  It was obvious that the gulf between a good amateur player and the pro was just ridiculous.
 
The same would happen at many (if not most) sports, I suspect.  Which amateur would fancy challenging Roger Federer to a game of tennis, or Tiger Woods to a few holes of golf.
 
I`d suggest that poker is unique among big money sports and games, in that a good amateur really does have at least a half chance to compete with the best.
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