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[QUOTE="Propane Goat, post: 2120255, member: 96298"]
Professional players writing books about how to make a killing at poker while they themselves are flat broke or close to it remind me of the "gurus" who will show you how to make a fortune overnight flipping houses but won't tell you how many times they've had to file bankruptcy already. I'm not questioning their skills or what they teach, I'm questioning the overall image that they project with the help of the entertainment industry that sucks people in and takes their money, because they've been given a false impression of the lifestyle and what being a poker pro is like. People see all the glamour and big paychecks on TV and want that, but it's just an illusion. There's another thread on these boards started by somebody who wanted to go pro with a $10k bankroll and cut himself off from his family because they wouldn't support him.

To be brutally honest if I had to treat poker as anything other than a hobby I would throw the cards in the fireplace and never look back, it's a brutal way to try and make a living.
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