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Message: [QUOTE="punctual, post: 2322067, member: 105248"] Well, in response to another poster's thread titled "IS POKER GAMBLING?" I thought I would start my own post on a different topic: Is "WORKING FOR A LIVING" gambling? [LIST=1]You have a boss who can fire you on a whim[/LIST] [LIST=2]the company you work for needs to be profitable for you to keep your job[/LIST] [LIST=3]Depending on what your bosses have you doing, you can be liable for fraud[/LIST] Now in general one would not consider these WORK conditions to be very risky. But now consider you go to work cursing your boss out every day, your company is about to go completely bankrupt, and you cut corners at work to be more efficient and in the process break laws that can put you in jail. now you just took what one would consider a fairly safe endeavor, WORK, and made it risky. Now consider what poker is all about. [LIST=1]You start out wiht a bankroll and want to make it grow[/LIST] [LIST=2]you put your money on the line when you feel you have an edge in a hand[/LIST] [LIST=3]when conditions seem favorable to you, you put in all your chips with intentions of doubling or tripling up[/LIST] [LIST=4]At the end of the day you make or lose money, depending upon the decisions you make.[/LIST] With proper bankroll management you can make your bankroll grow. When you become really good at knowing when you have edge enough to bet, your bets will make money more often. When you are able to, through experience, develop the skill to know when to put your money all in you will double and triple your stack more often. So we have taken an inherently unrisky thing, WORK, and made it risky. So WORK depending on our decisions could be gambling. In the same way, we POKER PLAYERS are taking an inherently risky thing and making it less-risky by pushing our chips in when we have edge. Over the long run, this edge will make us profitable over hte long run. So poker can be considered gambling, but poker can also be considered a low risk endeavor. It all depends on how we approach it. Poker, in a sense is just like running your own business. At the end of each business day your P&L is either GREEN or RED. Running your own business can be as much of a gamble as any poker session. Would love to hear other thoughts on this. [/QUOTE]

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