by simplelife » Fri 8 Jan 2010 02:01
Professional poker players are known for their good sense of risk taking and their ability to make good calls but there have been instances where their ability to do such things pretty much started and stayed in the poker game and unfortunately did not extend out into their every day lives. There have been poker pros who have had millions of dollars in winnings, only to go out and waste it all on living it up for a couple of years. These players literally spent everything that they had and were flat broke. It is amazing how such great players who usually have plenty of knowledge on decision making can manage to screw up so royally with money of all things. I have heard of celebrities doing it, but you kind of expect them to, seems to be the common thing to do after your career has pretty much been over for decades, but it isn’t something that we hear of poker professional players doing often which is why it seems so unusual and ironic to me.