![]() This is the biggest reason why I have not seriously considered pulling the trigger on 1) above. 2) If I cannot figure out the economics of this high-risk game, and I really cannot articulate or quantify my differentiators/advantages, I am loath to make this my profession. But work (yes, one of those high-risk entrepreneurial jobs) consumes every waking hour and the wife won't allow it (because she says I am not very good at the game!). Oh boy, where do I start? :-) 1) First, I would personally like to take six months off and become a professional No Limit Texas Hold 'Em player. I don't play poker, but some good friends of mine do (including some readers of this blog!). Naturally, there is no agreement and certainly no hard data. There are many opinions, ranging from hypothesizing cultural taboos (but Indians have grown up playing other card games) to being risk averse (but what of all the start-ups founded by Indians?). Readers have also weighed in with opinions. The blog post includes thoughts on this question from a number of people including from Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology student featured in Freakonomics who accidentally befriended a drug gang and discovered that such gangs operate like major corporations. i.e., the kind of fields that produce a lot of amateur and pro poker players - why should this be so? Considering that there are so many Indians of poker age in this country who thrive in finance, computer science, engineering, and other fields that incorporate math, probability, risk, etc. Whenever I see a poker tournament on TV or wander through a casino, I am always struck by a particular absence: there seem to be very few Indian-Americans playing poker. Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, asks the question " Where are all the Indian Poker players"? He is mystified because:
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