For The Pro's

[IggyWH]

Just curious, I know we have a lot of great minds here. Great minds don't always mean doing well in school though.

What would you be doing for a living if you weren't playing poker professionally?

[raze]

I can honestly say I have no idea. I'd probably be trying to open a business online or be in university, or both.

[IggyWH]

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I can honestly say I have no idea. I'd probably be trying to open a business online or be in university, or both.

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So you never went to college? How old are you and how old were you when you decided to play poker for a living?

[Nick-Zack]

I was in sales (commercial laundry) before I went "pro". Before that I owned a bunch of small businesses - laundromat, tanning salon, diaper service, aerobic studio, martial art school.

[r3vbr]

I would work on my family's business. We own industries that produce a series of plastic and packaging products such as aluminium cans, artificial fibers and plastic bottles.

[Mr_J]

Broke?

I'd probally be doing personal training/gym to build my sports br.

[imitation]

I was at university studying law and IT, now I'm living in China playing Poker, but I'm also studying Chinese fulltime, I think i'd probably still have travelled, just would have had to sweat my ass back home to save before hand doing [censored] labouring jobs whilst being a student. Then probably work as a teacher over here.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

I have no idea. Right now I am enjoying being a pro and have no plans of quiting, but I am living in a country where I do not speak the language etc., so some adjustments would have to be made /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

I am very good at selling, so I assume I would take a job in sales somewhere. I worked with fastevolving technology which is a curse in this situation as I will be a dinosaur if I enter the industry again (will get a lot of comments like: "that's how things were made two years ago, idiot" /images/graemlins/smirk.gif).

[daryn]

i probably would have gone to grad school and become a physicist or university professor. i stll might do these things

[MicroBob]

Some people around here know this.

I am 35...prior to poker I was a radio sports-broadcaster for various minor-league and college teams.

I was doing minor-league hockey for a team in Memphis but got fired (as did almost everyone else).

my degree is in broadcast-journalism and I could have gone back into news OR sports (radio or TV...although probably just behind the scenes if TV) if I wanted to eventually.

for 8 months I was dealing blackjack at a casino in Tunica, mississippi immediately prior to turning pro.
Blackjack actually paid a little better than small-time radio.

[Fraubump]

I was a cab driver, which actually paid a bit better than poker, but was a lot less pleasant. Can always go back to that if poker dries up. Or maybe I'll figure out how to put those useless creative writing degrees to work.

I didn't go to college, and never will. I hate hate hate school and teachers. After HS I worked as a starter at a golf course and for my mom (financial aid office at a college, which sucked).

If it weren't for poker I'd do something golf related. My first choice would be clubmaker/fitter, but if not, anything on a golf course or in golf club design would be good.

College drop out, although i am going back to school in the fall. Mostly to take buisiness and finance classes, not for a degree, at least not yet. If I wasn't playing poker I would probably be a full time student.