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Is there any game that offers so many "life lessons" than Poker?

• dragontamer 8y ago
  Go is pretty good at "life lessons" too. The game is over when both players decide it is over (skipping a turn). Its usually not worth it to try to kill opponents: the winning strategy is to typically capture territory. There's always more territory (especially in the early game) rather than aiming for conflict. You've got to know when to fight battles, you've got to know when to sacrifice pieces. The entire opening is basically tradition and still has no unifying theory (there's 3-4 opening and a Joseki for how professionals seem to play, but there's no hard proof that this is the optimal strategy). So its still a very open-ended game with a lot of unknowns.
• freyir 8y ago
  Is one of those life lessons "stop playing poker"? Because in my many hours frittered away in card rooms, I never once thought "these people have it all figured out."