The two-party system, by itself, is not inherently bad. Even countries with multiparty elections tend to have two dominant parties. What hurts the US is the electoral system used, first-past-the-post voting (FPTP voting). Since only the candidate which wins a plurality of the vote gets representation, it makes it much easier to manipulate the results and silence minorities and opposition.
Another rarely discussed, yet very serious, downside to being a professional poker player is that it causes you to greatly devalue money. If you compare a lawyer who makes $500/hr with a poker player who makes $500/hr, the poker player will never have anywhere near as much value for the money as the lawyer does.or a professional poker player to average $500/hr, he has to be playing fairly high stakes games in which you are winning and losing sums between $10,000 and $100,000 on an hourly basis.
Recreational Players: Amateur poker players on the other hand canât expect to make anywhere near this. Although it depends on the stakes involved â and how often you play, amateur poker players tend to make anything from zero to twenty thousand dollars per year.I put the limit at twenty thousand dollars because at this point amateur players become (or are considered) professional.ecreational Players: Amateur poker players on the other hand canât expect to make anywhere near this. Although it depends on the stakes involved â and how often you play, amateur poker players tend to make anything from zero to twenty thousand dollars per year.