There is so much emphasis on professional poker players lately that the amount of new players getting into the game of poker on a daily basis is truly staggering.  These players approach the game with steel in their eyes and fire in their hearts, determined to make their mark on the poker world and go home a winner.  Players are so serious and so determined to win that they purchase books, buy special apparel and even spend inordinate amounts of time learning the trade and game of poker.  This type of player is very common to the world of poker, as diving in head first and giving it your best shot is generally considered to be the best strategy.  But watching these new players in action, grim faced and determined to win, it is easy to see that the focus on professional poker players has taken away a lot of the fun that existed in the game before the professional angle was so widely adopted.

 Many players in days past would actually play poker more for fun than for profit, as players flocked to the tables at low limit games for the chance to play a few rounds and have a good time at what was largely considered to be a social function as well as a chance to earn some money by winning at poker.  By contrast, today’s players are all about winning and only winning.  The serious mindset of the current poker player today stands in stark contrast to the friendly and sociable tournaments of the past, when players knew each other in great detail and remained close throughout their careers.  Simply winning at poker wasn’t enough for these players, as maintaining these lifelong friendships became as critical as playing well at the poker tables.

In the modern day world, with such an extreme focus on winning and crushing the enemy, there is very little opportunity for players to increase their social network and participate in friendly games for anything less than the absolute best odds of winning.  These players of the modern day have seemingly taken all the life out of the game, leaving behind the trappings of a friendly and gentler era for the cutthroat world of brutal and ruthless poker in the most effective play styles available.

 Unfortunately, the tendency for players to become more and more serious and for the poker player to become a less hospitable place to be seems to be on the rise more and more as players with stars in their eyes fill the tables and play all manner of aggressive styles with winning the only concern.

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