SoCalMan,

I play both games frequently.

During the course of this year I hurled things across my home office, punched a sofa repeatedly, went into a cursing frenzy etc... while gambling. Each and every time it was poker that caused the emotional outburst. I can't remember the last time horseracing provoked that kind of negative emotion from me. It was certainly many years ago.

There are more opportnities for life altering bads beats in horseracing than poker because few people are playing in the biggest cash games or final tables of major tournamants daily, but a poker player will experience more horror show like individual hours of low probablity river beats in the typical month than a horseplayer will experience similar frustration in the typcial year.

If the articles are to get any better, they do need to start talking poker strategy. However, who wants horseplayers for that. Just read and absorb Sklansky/Miller/Malmuth books for limit, Harrington's books for tournaments, and Super System for NL and you'll learn everything you need to win from people that actually understand the game.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2005 01:17PM by speedkills.