This is what I'm currently thinking now. Hard work is pretty much long hours of grinding and how it feels silly losing to bad players in Poker! Even when you are holding the best hand, your opponent can still catch up from gambling that he will get his card. Most of the time, he won't but with the times he does get it, it's pretty much time to take a loss then.
In this game of trying to keep the winning percentage, going into the business of playing Poker can pretty much stay a one-man operation. It can be a lot of long hours spent gambling and also trying to outclass other opponents to make a living off of it. What I'm relating it to the most right now is a casino. A successful casino will always have the winning edge with those typical games where players can gamble and try their luck on. Having several tables operating at once, it's like the winning percentages will pay off on the long run and make them stay in business as long as the players keep on coming from treating them like valuable customers.
In a sense, with hired labor doing a lot of the physical hard work, it can be pretty nice for the owner. What I'm starting to get at is that from playing Poker, I'm taking a gamble at how I'm a winning player and using my experiences to build upon always making myself a better player. Yet, it's so much time that goes into it while still being a gamble. It's probably not the preferred route for me after all, and I'm pretty much just spending my time on it to play for fun. It's probably just a delusion then that I can be a professional player, while not being full-time with it. With a lot of above-average players losing money in this game from gambling on variance, I shouldn't statistically count myself as excluded. It's just playing for fun and getting too into it to pass the time would be a wasteful effort for myself.
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