A remarkable phenomenon that lies beneath the surface of the booming poker industry is the fact that a percentage of the professional poker community comes from another card game, Magic: The Gathering, also referred to as M:TG. Interestingly enough, one of the most unknown sports, or card games, provides poker with some of its most successful young players. While the age demographic, and gender for that matter, of professional poker has changed over the last decade or so, a great deal of the young men who take up poker as a career have spent at least half of their life playing a game called Magic: The Gathering.
The reasons that M:TG players are so successful at poker lie within the parallels of the way the two games are played. First of all, Magic players in general are exceptionally good at mentally calculating numbers, a skill that would prove to be very useful in cards, specifically poker.
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