I posted a topic at Card Runners about how old I feel playing at the micros and posting thought on the low limit forums. It seems that everyone playing online poker is 18-25 and very aggressive and sharp. The highest levels are filled with twenty something phenoms shoving incredible sums of cash into huge pots. I can't help but wonder if I would have been one back in the day.
I was born in 1962, and of course life was simpler. I know, yadda, yadda yadda. But really we didn't have Internet or 100 channels. When I was in my teens, we played high school sports, drank and chased girls. I can't help but wonder if I would have spent my days in front of a computer screen playing 8 tables of No-Limit Poker at Full Tilt Poker, Where the Pros Play! I don't think I would have. All of our activities were outdoors. I can't help but believe the online poker boom is a product to ESPN and video games. Kids today aren't outdoor oriented, they are tech savvy and spend a majority of the day in a digital world. I would venture to say that an online poll would revel such facts. It's like smoking pot, it's harmless at first, but it will lead you to something stronger. For these kids, it was a simple game like Halo, but know look where they are. They play the highest stakes of online poker, and have a bankroll I'll not see in a lifetime. So in retrospect, I missed the boat. I should have been chasing bad guys on the TV with my controller instead of chasing curve balls low and away. I have promised a blog of poker and prison, but this is just a simple observation not even worth the megabytes required to post it.
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