[scrawnybob]

hi Matt

I guess there are three things I would mention in short

1) Arnold Palmer commented on golf ...

"It's funny the more I practise ... the luckier I get"

(it equally applies to poker - but not slot machines or casino games)

2) Lots of men happily sit in pubs all night, every night slowly supping beer

does this make them addicted to alcohol because they spend alot of hours drinking slowly

and should people who enjoy an occasional drink or a spend alot of time in the pub be stereotyped or put in the same group of being drinkers and compared to the minority holigan who gets plastered and paints the town red ?

3) Addiction is addiction - and that can be an addiction of anything - poker isnt unique in that respect or statistically a very good example of addiction (it just happens to be fashionable to cast it as such)

cheers scrawnybob