PRO: Many poker players are happily married. They have children and happy family lives. One thing is — if done responsibly, poker allows you to spend lots of time with them. I spend more time with my family than almost any other husband I know. Families and marriages are what you make of them, and that’s got little to do with your job, except insofar as your job reflects your personality. I have a wife and handsome, athletic, smart, educated kids, in a classic middle-class beach lifestyle. And, I play poker for a living. I know plenty of people doing the 9 to 5 routine who are bitter with no family life, divorced and lonely. It’s all what you make of it.
CON: If you play poker, you probably work nights and sleep days. How are you going to attend soccer matches and ballet dances? You won’t. Because you won’t find a woman worth marrying. Who would want to hook up with a gambler?
FINAL ANALYSIS: Poker playing is more challenging to family life than most other occupations — except in rare instances. The vocation is overwhelming comprised of males, which leads to fewer opportunities for courtship and matrimony than most other professions (except for male-dominated fields).
