CNN article..interesting read

[kennyg]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/29 ... index.html

I love the part the guy says poker isn't as bad as pot Ice, you're a cop..what do you say about that?

[iceman5]

"It's fun. It's exciting. It's glamorized on TV and in the media in a way that other addictions are not," says Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling. "There's the impression that through skill you can beat the odds. But randomness is always going to have a bigger factor in determining the outcome than your skill.

Yet another moron who fails to understand poker. Randomness is a bigger factor than skill? The "randomness" gods must love me then.

I think pot should be legalized personally. Its no more harmful than alcohol is. (and Ive never smoked it in my life)
Also, I dont know anyone who is addicted to poker. I do know a few people who are addicted to gambling though. Its a whole different ballgame, and these fools are too closed minded to see it.

[briachek]

is being obssessed with poker the same as addiction? We all love the game, play it all the time and many of us may be addicted and be in denial (I probably am) but I go by this:

"I don't have a gambling problem because I win more often than I lose."

One way to rationalize it.

[TexasKowboy]

I love the money but it's the rush that keeps me coming back for more. The pounding in your chest waiting for the river on a all in. The sweating palms as your mind races through each possible hand that can beat yours then asking yourself what the chances are your up against it. The hot flash when you know you have the nuts and some moron is betting into you. Then the relief that washes over your body when your hand holds up. That first MTT victory where at that moment in time you were the best. Then logging off then back on just so you can check your balance to make sure you really won. Not sleeping that night wanting to tell anyone that will listen.

So yeah I'm addicted. It's the same rush a cop gets get just before kicking a door not knowing who or what if waiting on the other side. With that said I think that is why cops like to play poker.

It's the same addictive personallity that has kept me from ever trying any drug harder the weed. It's why I drink like a fish and play like a fish when I am drinking.

For you social workers. Yes I know, alcohal is a drug.

Poker is my drug of choice!