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.
The NFL is the most lucrative pro sports league in the world, but its players are dead last among the four major American professional sports in average salary. On average, NBA players make $5.15 million, MLB players make $3.2 million, NHL players make $2.4 million, and NFL players make $1.9 million per year, according to Forbes. But that doesn't even tell the full story.