The 9 biggest reasons to play poker
Whether you're looking for a hobby or a profession, there's plenty of reasons to give poker a try.
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Zero barriers to entry
To get started in poker all you need is your curiosity peaked and a place to play. Plus, if you're not into sunglasses and staring contests, there's this new thing called the internet...
Skills for life
Emotional control, financial discipline, risk assessment, analysing weaknesses, making the most of bad situations, dealing with failure, working towards long-term goals...the list goes on.
Learning is free
As the game has developed as an internet phenomenon over time, basic and advanced strategy has become increasingly available online. Of course this can only take you so far, you need to put in the volume and hard work yourself, but a solid educational platform to build upon and a healthy learning environment in which to do so isn't a bad free starter pack.
The social aspects
Whether you live and breathe the game online or enjoy a casual home game once a month with buddies from work, poker is a universal language that brings people together all over the planet.
The sky's the limit
Where most jobs or hobbies have their limits in terms of how much you can earn, in poker just one good day could be your ticket to an early retirement.
You can be your own boss
Answer to no one but yourself, mathematical variance, and the green line on your graph.
Flexible hours
What's better than being woken up by your body clock at 7 AM, but then realising it's Saturday and you don't have to get up for work...? Enjoying that feeling of freedom when you wake up every single day!
You can take the game anywhere
As long as you have a laptop, an internet connection, and aren't situated in the land of hope and opportunity (America, of course) anywhere on Earth could be your office.
You can play with the best
Unlike most competitive arenas where the closest you'll likely ever get to the legends is social media, in poker you can test your skills against the game's best and brightest on a daily basis.
