TAJPROFESSOR: Professional Poker as legit as Professional Hockey

[KingofthePaupers]

JCT: There was a letter to the editor about the mayoral
candidates from Marshall Miller. After acknowledging Turmel is
a professional poker player, he says:
"By my count one-third of the candidates can prove they not
only have a full-time gig, but can also make it one their own
in the private sector."

Jct: His count is off. With me were the candidate working for
a pharmaceutical company, the developer and the salesman. It's
not 3/9 = 33%, it's 4/9 = 45% who are making it. Of course,
Miller added wrongly (up to 4) or didn't count me. Sure, he
would no doubt count Wayne Gretzky's making a living by
physical prowess as a professional hockey player but not John
Turmel's making a living by mental prowess as a professional
gambler for 36 years. Okay, so Marshall's fraction is wrong
because he miscounted or his fraction is wrong because his
initial premise that living by mental prowess doesn't count;
he didn't grasp what the word "professional" meant in
"professional gambler." Still, Garbage In, Garbage Out.

MM: "Would the $85,000 salary and benefits the mayor's job
pays have anything to do with why the other candidates are
running?"

JCT: That's $20 to $30 bucks an hour, I average $35 (3.5 bets)
an hour in the local small $10 Holdem game at the Brantford
Casino. I'd be taking a pay cut even if I stayed out of the
bigger games and he didn't count me?