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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Of course bad actors exist in every profession, but gambling attracts more of them, because it presents itself as a way to beat the system, make money without doing legitimate work, etc. Plus there are a lot of marks and suckers in the ecosystem.
You could make a longer list of CEO's simply because there are far more people doing legitimate work. But given the population of professoinal gamblers (probably a rounding point on the population as a whole, .1 percent or something), the number of scandals in poker is ridiculously disproportionate. And that's not surprising at all.
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The really sad part about "cheating" is that some "professional poker players" consider this to be just, "maximizing their edge" in the game. And then, with their next breath...they'll declare that, "the most valuable asset of a gambler is his reputation".
I remember Johnny Chan's comment when he was asked on TV about the relative "honesty" of the poker community, when compared to the rest of the "business environment" out there:
"I'd rather lend $10,000 to a poker player, than to anybody else"...Chan remarked.
I've spent almost as much time around poker players as Johnny Chan has...and my opinion on this matter couldn't be more dissimilar.
