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Message: [QUOTE="BelgoSuisse, post: 1350652, member: 30299"] I'm one of those people who make a significant amount of money from this game. Essentially, in order to be good at this game, you need to be rational. If you believe in luck, magic, ... you're in for big trouble. And the reason poker is hard is that a lot of your short term results are driven by luck, so you get fooled by that and rationalize your magic thinking by using short term results as justification. The actual skills you need to learn are details compared to this essential quality of rationality. BTW, i think it's good things that religions overwhelmingly frown upon gambling. If you're gullible enough to believe in one or several gods, you should not be gambling because you're obviously too likely to fall for magic thinking. Atheists should not have that kind of problem. Please make that the topic of your research and establish a strong correlation between religiosity and problem gambling. :D [/QUOTE]