Why is "Money Won" on here so important to people

[JohnnyDeepStacks]

IMO its always bad to compare yourself to others in the game of poker. As far as telling how good someone is. FT percentage and ITM % are good stats to look at to get a general idea how someone plays. Tournaments you need a ton of them to really tell how good someone is. But as far as comparing yourself to others. I don't think you should. Its bad for your game and could force you to play incorrectly to try and match up. Its just bad news to compare yourself in poker. If your focused on your own game and continually working on your own game. The numbers will come. If your going to look at others stats then do it for self improvement. Watch them play and see what they are doing. Some of them are just playing more volume in which case their numbers are going to be higher of course. But even when you can't play , by watching others you can learn something.

[Dominator3]

Why are people so stuck on this. Not everyone plays the freerolls... some of us earn points for vouchers... others earn points to trade other players for cash... people automatically think that because there is a 0 there that those players are not very good... you cant judge someone by one stat... especially on a site that has the option to buy sell and trade points instead of using them all for freerolls!!

I dont place too much emphasis on it personally because I use it for bovada 99% of the time and that does not even count for money won.

[Pray4Spades]

Doesn't mean anything to me since I don't play Carbon at all and that's where a majority of peoples money won come from, and I don't play many freerolls anyways.

[6MAXCHAMP]

Word. Some are here to trade, some are here to play, some are here to bullshit.

[Swittie]

some are here to criticize bullshit....lol....j/k............