While I'm talking about poker, here's something that can stop:

Starting sentences with the phrase, "Poker is a lot like life..."

This is only a trend with people seeking to validate the devotion they give to poker. Poker isn't like life. Poker is a game of strategy in the long-term, and luck in the short-term.

In life, you can make all the incorrect decisions and reach the top of the iceburg. Naturally, you forget about the 70% of us that are underwater, but you get what you pay for, and life is free.

An example would be President George W. Bush. Here's a man that's the "leader" of the most powerful nation on earth, and he still thinks naming an anti-theft device "The Club" is really fucking funny.

That doesn't belong on the resume of the President of the United States. That is on MY resume. Fuck.

Poker is not like life. It's easy to see similarities between something that is not understood by humans (life) and anything else that's so incredibly complicated that it's nigh incomprehensible (in this example, poker).