Informative Reversal Freewrite

Ever since Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker in 2003 there has been a poker boom throughout the US. Before Moneymaker, almost every winner of the World Series Main Event had been a professional poker player. The Main Event is decided over a Texas Hold-em Poker table and the buy-in is $10,000. The reason that Moneymaker, an accountant from Tennessee, cause such a big poker craze is because it made everyone believe that poker is all luck and no skill. Everyone began to believe that since one man got extremely lucky that poker was easy and anyone could be successful at it. Now this thinking does not seem very logical, considering when the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team won the gold medal against the heavily favored Russians no one rushed out there doors threw on a pair of skates and went to the NHL. The professional players that have been playing all their lives to make a living have for the most part enjoyed the craze. There is so much fresh money to be won because they believe that skill is the way to success; NOT luck. Of course there is some luck in poker, but there is luck and variation in almost any profession. There are certain things in life that are in no ones control the only thing one can do is to put themselves in the best position to succeed and avoid bad luck or as they say in the poker world, bad beats. There is a certain amount of variation in everything and poker is just another instance of that.