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[QUOTE="GabryRox, post: 694550, member: 32590"]
I totally agree with you... to become a professional athlete, you have to be born with a certain amount of natural ability. Certainly those people still need to work to hone their skills, but the fact remains that the vast majority of people would never be able to make it to the pro/self-sustaining level no matter how much effort they put into it.  Similar thing with being a musician.
 
However, poker is not really dependant on physical prowess, so most average people would at least have a shot at becoming succesful at it (I think that is where the ultra-high popularity comes in). Certainly you need a decent mind for numbers/odds/analytics and such, but there's probably only a relatively small segment of society that does not possess that ability.  Of course, I'm talking about mainly online playing here.  If you're playing brick & mortar, it's somewhat more dependant on your ability to read people and such.  But still, this population of poeple is significantly higher than those that have a ligitmate shot at becoming a pro athlete or musician.
 
Speaking of reading people, isn't it juck sick how Negranau can read what people are holding?  Was watching the WSOP on ESPN the other day, and I swear, the guy was dead on on almost all of his reads.  Even the announcers were amazed, stating that "maybe he should be in charge of finding Bin Laden"!
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