College Students, how much do you play during school?

[dibbs]

Just curious really, as I don't know yet how much I'll even be able to get in this year, and wondering how much others do.

How many hours or hands do you get in a week during the school year? I'm mainly curious about students with upper level courses, seminars, internships and all that, but either way.

Thanks.

[tonypaladino]

Senior level couses, worked 40 hours a week,
i was able to play only 4-5 hours a week.

[whodaman]

im getting as much as i want in.
You could play 8 hours a day everyday

[NiR]

4-5 sesssions of 8 tabling per day.

Yeah I'm in the same boat, I spend about 10 hours a week in class, 2 hours a week doing school work (MAYBE), and 4 nights a week at the bar. I find its easy to get in 25 hours a week, 30+ if I really feel like it. I am not looking forward to graduating and having to get a real job...

[ggbman]

15k hands so far this month!

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[ggbman]

Ok but seriously, 15 hours/week should do.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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13k hands so far this month!

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[Delzek15]

I would LIKE to get 20 hours a week. But 15 is more realistic.

[SackUp]

i'm in law school and I try to get in around 5-10 hours a week or about 10k-15k hands.

My play varies a ton depending on what is going on. If I have a moot court or mock trial comp, some bs thing for law review, or something like that. I'm also a research assistant now so that cuts into my PT as well. I also am a 3L though and only have 3 classes and an intership so that lightens my load a bit.

Really you just need to balance your time and never sacrifice school for poker...just not worth it in the long run. Know when you have time and when you do not. You really should not base your time against anyone else b/c everyone has different schedules.

[ClaytonN]

Freshman, about 2 hours a day 4tabling, usually after midnite when everyone else is getting hammered. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[TheMetetron]

I probably played as much when I was in college as I do now as a full time pro.

Maybe that's part of the reason I dropped out of college my junior year to become a pro. Hmmm....

Oh well, best decision I ever made.

[trentcroad]

I think Its hard to get more then 20hrs a week.
Especially when most of us miss out on the best games which are on the weekends.

[mdeck]

I'll be lucky to get in 5k hands this month. That being said, I'm a Biochemistry major with two labs, in an undergrad. research program, and volunteer weekly in a hospital, so during the week I play all of...maybe an hour a day.

On weekends my play is little to none, but I go to a big football school so the weekends are all busy. Also, Sunday is my NFL/study day so there's no playing there.

I guess it comes down to,
Pick Two:
1. Be Studious
2. Have a significant social life
3. Play poker

Being at school is -EV /images/graemlins/frown.gif (unless I decide to start playing in class).

[StacysMom]

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13k hands so far this month!

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18K+, and I'm a law student. What a nub...

[Mercman572]

sophmore at cornell. I have time for maybe 1.5 hours a day with time to spare to get my work done and be social. weekends maybe 2-3 hours. past that and I'm locking myself in my room and not doing work I should be

[ChromePony]

Senior at Northwestern, I've hardly played at all this month with moving and seeing people again. My advice to everyone out there is to not let poker get in the way with college, this is a once in a lifetime experience and it'll be over before you know it. Have fun, make friends, and skip class to do stuff other than poker. That said, I'd still like to hit 7-10k hands/ month.

[jzpiano14]

Double major in 3.5 years and i usually get in about 20 hours per week.

[StacysMom]

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Senior at Northwestern, I've hardly played at all this month with moving and seeing people again. My advice to everyone out there is to not let poker get in the way with college, this is a once in a lifetime experience and it'll be over before you know it. Have fun, make friends, and skip class to do stuff other than poker. That said, I'd still like to hit 7-10k hands/ month.

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What makes you think poker isn't a once in a lifetime experience? I agree you need a social life. But I treat every day of online poker like it could be the last. Its the best opportuinity I have ever had. How many people come out of school not only debt free, but with a downpayment on their first house?

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I guess it comes down to,
Pick Two:
1. Be Studious
2. Have a significant social life
3. Play poker


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I really don't think it's too difficult to do all 3. I aim to play 1-2 hours a day, probably 10-15 hours a week. It allows me to balance my school work and social life along with playing poker. Let's not forget nap time, guys. Napping is crucial to college success. (Unless you go to bed at a decent hour, which is nearly unheard of around me).

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[imported_CaseClosed326]

10k a month. Maybe I can get in more this year than I did last.

[teddyFBI]

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i'm in law school and I try to get in around 5-10 hours a week or about 10k-15k hands.


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On what planet do you get 1,200 hands / hour?

For the record, i'm a 3L too on east coast and am shooting for 3 to 5 thousand hands / wk while in school.

Or just drop out of law school to play poker for a semester like i did -- story at www.zbasic.com/pokerblog.html (http://www.zbasic.com/pokerblog.html)

[housenuts]

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Freshman, about 2 hours a day 4tabling, usually after midnite when everyone else is getting hammered. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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why aren't you getting hammered?

[pyroponic]

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Senior at Northwestern, I've hardly played at all this month with moving and seeing people again. My advice to everyone out there is to not let poker get in the way with college, this is a once in a lifetime experience and it'll be over before you know it. Have fun, make friends, and skip class to do stuff other than poker. That said, I'd still like to hit 7-10k hands/ month.

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What makes you think poker isn't a once in a lifetime experience? I agree you need a social life. But I treat every day of online poker like it could be the last. Its the best opportuinity I have ever had. How many people come out of school not only debt free, but with a downpayment on their first house?

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Amen, not to mention a big screen TV, a nice theater sound system, and furniture to furnish it =)

[stillbr]

I used to put in like 25. It was very easy to do. Now I am not NEAR as motivated, and playing higher than I used to so my hours have gone way down. Now I play maybe 10 hrs a week or so.

[kagame]

i havent been playing more than 300 hands a day because i stop whenever i break someone in the first two hours...

ill take fewer hours, no stress, and a badass winrate ;-)

plus i still dont go to class

weeee

[mdeck]

My schedule:

MWF 8:30-1045, 12:50-1:40 Class
M - Lab 1:55-5:15, Class 6:30-7:20
W - Lab 1:55-4:55

T/Th 9:30-10:45 Class
T - 12:30-1:20 Class, 2:00-5:15 Undergraduate Research
Th - 12:00-4:00 Volunteering in Hospital

Fridays are Pep Rallys at 6, and we have a 40's at 4 drinking tradition, so Drinking at 4, food at 5, pep rally at 6. Go out (no poker) afterwards.

Saturday: 7am, Power Shower and Keggs and Eggs Breakfast, then tailgating til the game starts. Game goes til 5:30 or so, then dinner. Post-Dinner is partying.

Sunday: All the work I couldn't cram in between the week goes here, and Church.

All this, combined with naps, exams, papers, homework, and meals leaves me very little time to sit at the computer and play a decent session. It's definitely hard for me to get in more than 2,000 hands a week in with my current schedule, and still keep my grades up.

[blackize]

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Yeah I'm in the same boat, I spend about 10 hours a week in class, 2 hours a week doing school work (MAYBE), and 4 nights a week at the bar. I find its easy to get in 25 hours a week, 30+ if I really feel like it. I am not looking forward to graduating and having to get a real job...

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Oh god. This is exactly the average American is so stupid and uninformed. 4+ nights a week at the bar only 10 hours of class a week and only 2 hours of work. Are you majoring in hotel and restaurant management and on a 7 year plan?

[ClaytonN]

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why aren't you getting hammered?

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cuz? I dunno. I'm not a drinker.

[Bradyams]

I try to play atleast an hour a day.

[threeonefour]

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Yeah I'm in the same boat, I spend about 10 hours a week in class, 2 hours a week doing school work (MAYBE), and 4 nights a week at the bar. I find its easy to get in 25 hours a week, 30+ if I really feel like it. I am not looking forward to graduating and having to get a real job...

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Oh god. This is exactly the average American is so stupid and uninformed. 4+ nights a week at the bar only 10 hours of class a week and only 2 hours of work. Are you majoring in hotel and restaurant management and on a 7 year plan?

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actually this isn't the reason at all

[blackize]

Heh I know. I also was so pissed at hor absurdly easy his college schedule is that my post came out horribly. I just want to emphasize that 10 hours of class in a week is 3 classes maybe less, and I dont know anyone who spends 2 hours a week on homework. I know plenty of people who go to the bars 4 nights a week though, but they work hard as [censored] otherwise.

[Bartman387]

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Senior at Northwestern, I've hardly played at all this month with moving and seeing people again. My advice to everyone out there is to not let poker get in the way with college, this is a once in a lifetime experience and it'll be over before you know it. Have fun, make friends, and skip class to do stuff other than poker. That said, I'd still like to hit 7-10k hands/ month.

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What makes you think poker isn't a once in a lifetime experience? I agree you need a social life. But I treat every day of online poker like it could be the last. Its the best opportuinity I have ever had. How many people come out of school not only debt free, but with a downpayment on their first house?

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Amen, not to mention a big screen TV, a nice theater sound system, and furniture to furnish it =)

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There is more to life than having lots of things...

Also could one of you two explain how poker is a once in a lifetime experience?? I'm pretty sure poker isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so as long as you are alive you will be able to play. However your friends and you will not have the freedom to do the types of things you can do when you are young and in college. People get married, have kids, etc. etc. responsibility will continue to grow and opporitunity do just go out and do whatever will dwindle.

Don't get me wrong I love playing poker, it has allowed to affors many things I wouldn't have without the supplementry income in rpovides, but when it comes down to sitting in front of my comp on a friday night or going to a party, football game etc. I almost always choose the latter and the few times I haven't I kick myself for deciding to sit around rather than go out and experience life.

I completely agree with the senior at NW. I'm a senior at the U of M and wonder where the time has went. I guess it's just one of those things you only learn with age.

P.S. my schedule:
15 hours of class/week
20 hours of work/week
5-10 of homework/week
all remaning time divided between friends, family, poker, and all other fun/social activites. All in all I maybe get one hour in a day and roughly 2-3 on saturday & Sunday each.

[ChromePony]

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What makes you think poker isn't a once in a lifetime experience? I agree you need a social life. But I treat every day of online poker like it could be the last. Its the best opportuinity I have ever had. How many people come out of school not only debt free, but with a downpayment on their first house?

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OK, that is a valid point and I definitely agree with you. I mean Im clearly not dropping poker right now, and there are times when all I feel like doing is playing so thats what I do. I guess all I'm saying is that you should make sure that you don't find yourself turning down too many fun social opportunities to stay home and play cards, but if you have the time to balance both and poker continues to be fun then by all means go for it.

[SoftcoreRevolt]

I play as much as I can really. During the school year I play a lot more during the day when I'm not in class since there is less to do, and play less during prime time (8-10) and then more between 1 AM and 3 AM.

Of course, I'm a senior double majoring in Political Science and History, so I breeze through my courses leaving plenty of time for poker. It's tought o put an hour figure on it though, since I could really easily play 4-5 hours a day without noticing it, then struggle to play 1-2 hours the next day because I had things to do, and I don't have my PT stats on my new computer.

[ChromePony]

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I completely agree with the senior at NW. I'm a senior at the U of M and wonder where the time has went. I guess it's just one of those things you only learn with age.

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Maybe its a senior thing, looking back I feel like the first 3 years flew by kinda fast and I want to make sure that I get everything I can out of this year. Yeah poker is booming right now, but it will still be here in a year in some capacity, and I just dont want to be sitting in my nice paid for house in 5 years regretting how I spent my time here.

[Bartman387]

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I want to make sure that I get everything I can out of this year.

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Thats exactly it!

As a frosh and sophomore it seems like you have forever and a day, if you dont get to it now there is always next week, month year. But as a senior and to a lesser extent a junior you realize your time is winding down and if you dont do it now you may never.

[StacysMom]

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I completely agree with the senior at NW. I'm a senior at the U of M and wonder where the time has went. I guess it's just one of those things you only learn with age.

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Maybe its a senior thing, looking back I feel like the first 3 years flew by kinda fast and I want to make sure that I get everything I can out of this year. Yeah poker is booming right now, but it will still be here in a year in some capacity, and I just dont want to be sitting in my nice paid for house in 5 years regretting how I spent my time here.

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Deffinately take advantage of non poker activites. Especially with friends, I make sure I do. But I just to avoid wasting time on stupid things like video games, tv watching, internet porn... and allocate that to hardcore multitabling.

[Python49]

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There is more to life than having lots of things...

Also could one of you two explain how poker is a once in a lifetime experience?? I'm pretty sure poker isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so as long as you are alive you will be able to play. However your friends and you will not have the freedom to do the types of things you can do when you are young and in college. People get married, have kids, etc. etc. responsibility will continue to grow and opporitunity do just go out and do whatever will dwindle.

Don't get me wrong I love playing poker, it has allowed to affors many things I wouldn't have without the supplementry income in rpovides, but when it comes down to sitting in front of my comp on a friday night or going to a party, football game etc. I almost always choose the latter and the few times I haven't I kick myself for deciding to sit around rather than go out and experience life.

I completely agree with the senior at NW. I'm a senior at the U of M and wonder where the time has went. I guess it's just one of those things you only learn with age.

P.S. my schedule:
15 hours of class/week
20 hours of work/week
5-10 of homework/week
all remaning time divided between friends, family, poker, and all other fun/social activites. All in all I maybe get one hour in a day and roughly 2-3 on saturday & Sunday each.

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In other words, this guy really wants us to know he's not a loser.

Fact of the matter is, you can play 4 hours a day still have a great social life. I know because I do it. I go to classes and hang out with friends during the day, then at night when most people are in their room watching tv getting ready to fall asleep, thats when I play poker. I play from like 12am to 4am because i'm used to staying up late... fixed my schedule to allow me to sleep in. On thursdays, fridays, saturdays, go out and party. Theres alot of downtime in college. And sitting around hanging out with friends watching tv during the day and drinking is not much better time spent than playing poker.

[Weatherhead03]

Sounds like a great time to start.