Agreed, I personally know 2 people who make their living playing poker...both are former magic players. It was explained to me like this...magic has so many different variables the odds on different hands are very complex, poker by comparison is very easy (odds wise vs. magic). I used to watch one of them play online, 3 monitors with 8 tournaments running per screen at the same time, I think he was in the top 50 worldwide for a bit there (not to mention winning a very large sum in one of the poker tours).

Both of them moved out of country when the Poker stars crackdown happened so they could keep playing.

When I mentioned I liked Blackjack they laughed and said "...odds are terrible...you might as well play the stock market..".