People who win at high stakes poker count in wins/losses, not in value of money earned. Poker has become a lifestyle game. It's about the prestige, not the money.
It's always about the money; the lifestyle is the way poker players show it off to the world, that is otherwise disconnected from their success...or occupation.
It's still not even about the money then. But ceaseless acquisition. Of what? The question and answer is virtually irrelevant, despite it being obviously money/chips, and the money/chips being important.
The "lifestyle game" perception is a facade. It's easy to digest, and it's what most articles that get written support as the reality.
Money is the prestige. And if there is a top, it's apocryphal.
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People who win at high stakes poker count in wins/losses, not in value of money earned. Poker has become a lifestyle game. It's about the prestige, not the money.
Yes. But no,
It's always about the money; the lifestyle is the way poker players show it off to the world, that is otherwise disconnected from their success...or occupation.
It's still not even about the money then. But ceaseless acquisition. Of what? The question and answer is virtually irrelevant, despite it being obviously money/chips, and the money/chips being important.
The "lifestyle game" perception is a facade. It's easy to digest, and it's what most articles that get written support as the reality.
Money is the prestige. And if there is a top, it's apocryphal.