kirklaja

How many people do you consider to be "top pros?" That very small sample you see on TV consistently? So what, 50 players?Oh and I just noticed that Prahlad aka Spirit Rock aka Mahatma aka Im_Sleeping aka Aplusgame aka Zweig is still in it too.

Not all of these guys are full time pros (Strasser for instance is a rising senior at Duke), but they are accomplished players in their own right:Jon Lane (G6Dragon online, 88th in ME last year)Eric Lynch (Rizen online, top 5 net tourney player in the world per p5's, winner of stars $1M, has a FT in PLHE this year)Jason Strasser (cash game stud on stars as strassa2, several final tables in Sunday majors, featured in SI article last year on popularity of poker in college)David Angel (won a bracelet in 83, 35th in Main Event the year Raymer won and was at TV table for significant portion of broa

Smash, you're an idiot. Swaps, owning a piece of another player, etc have little to do with a desire to gamble. Read this Paul Phillips RGP post:http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.ga...ac980a448?hl=en

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