Because of what I do for living, I spend much of my free time and almost all of my "at-work" time on the internet.  Now, I know that the people I run into online are really just a representative sample of the general real-life population, but man, I could swear sometimes that the intelligence quotient of the average internet message board poster is a tick below people I see everyday with my own eyes.  Case in, point, this guy. A member of a popular poker forum had a question eating away at him.  It was so important and so impossible to have answered through basic, logical thought or simple Google searches that he had to create a new thread to bother everyone with it. "Why is poker stars so popular?" he queried.  "Besides from the good client, and good support i dont understand why the majority of the players, who most play micro and such play there and they get next to nothing on rakeback?" I did not respond to this guy in his forum thread, but I am going to briefly take a stab at an answer here in this column.  I actually could just stop right now and say that he ...