furthering my education
 

I am a culinary student in chicago right now, and i am about to finish with my associates in culinary arts and my dad wants me to finish up my BA at a 4 year college or somewhere that i can further my carrer in the culinary field, i was looking at denver, but i tried to find casinos that have poker so i can supplement my income while going to school full time, so if anyone has any ideas and recomindations that i can look into that would be great
thank you in advance

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uhhh, vegas maybe?

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the four big areas for B&M poker are CA, vegas, tunica, AC. play online and you can live anywhere.

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the four big areas for B&M poker are CA, vegas, tunica, AC. play online and you can live anywhere.

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CA - great action and an awesome place to live, likely some good culinary schools, SUPER high cost of living...
AC - good action but a HORRIBLE place to live, likely no good culinary schools, pretty low cost of living (slums!)
Tunica - good action but who the hell wants to live there, no idea about culinary schools, low cost of living (hickville miss)
Vegas - great action and incredible place to live, several VERY good culinary schools as well as one of the best hotel/restaurant mng schools (unlv), great job opportunities when you get out of school, decent cost of living but going up

like i said before, VEGAS!

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vegas would be great, but that would be putting a fox in a hen house, i would go nuts, poker,sluuts,drugs, they dont call it the city of sin for nothing, i would be having more fun then school, playing online is hard for me, i am a loosing online player and a wining live player, i dont know what to do
so confused but thanks for the info,
i have looked into unlv because of there top program in culianry managment, jeez who knew planing for your future would be so hard

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Another idea is to get a, you know, regular job to supplement your income. Very few players are good enough that they can count on poker as a guaranteed source of income.

Nothing against you, but I see a whole lot of people around here who speak so casually of how they can make x amount of dollars per week/month/year playing poker. I wonder how many are truly that good vs how many are simply experiencing a good run of cards.

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i have looked into unlv because of there top program in culianry managment, jeez who knew planing for your future would be so hard

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Try Philadelphia. We have the Restaurant School, Philly has world class restaurants. It's only 1.5 hours from AC by train or driving. Close enough to AC to play casino poker, but not so easy as going down the street so it will give you some discipline. Decent cost of living, compared to the other Northeast Corridor cities (DC, NYC, Boston). I love it here.

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well i am not saying that i am the best poker player ever, but i will say that i am good enought to make 2k month for various things that i need, and thats playing 5-10

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Providence you got Johnson and Whales University and you are about 45 to an hour from Foxwoods. Very fishy games and far enough away to keep you in check.

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playing online is hard for me, i am a loosing online player and a wining live player, i dont know what to do

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You may want to look into this further. I would find the reason why this is true. For me, its concentration and booze. I don't drink while playing live so my results live are better. I know this, have identified my weakness, and am working hard to not drink while I play online.

The thing is, online play gets you to the long term much quicker. It is nice to find your leaks online since you play so many more hands and fix them. It would suck to spend a lifetime playing live only to realize at the very end that you have easily pluggable holes in your game.

B&M rocks! But, there is something to be said for online play as well.

Other than that, Vegas Baby!

Onaflag............

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Providence you got Johnson and Whales University and you are about 45 to an hour from Foxwoods. Very fishy games and far enough away to keep you in check.

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OP said he's from Chicago--if you've ever driven in Chicagoland, 45 minutes can be the time required to get you from one side of a suburb to another. Probably not far enough away to keep out of trouble.

From the OP's comments, he may have some issues w/ self control. Don't know if Vegas is the best for him (gambling, drugs, sluts fairly easy to come by there). OP said father wants him to goto 4 year school--does he?

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well i am not saying that i am the best poker player ever, but i will say that i am good enought to make 2k month for various things that i need, and thats playing 5-10

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Take this for what it's worth because I'm also far from the best player ever, but your goal seems slightly unrealistic if you're going to be a full time student. At 1 BB winnings per hour (a respectable winrate) that would mean 50 hours of play per week to average $500. If you win 1.5 BB/hr (closer to the upper limit against half decent opposition) then that's still 33 hours per week. Do you really want to spend that much time in the casino during school?

Also are you prepared to deal with several losing weeks in a row where you work many hours with nothing to show for it? Maybe some sort of part time job with a predictable salary would be better with a bit of poker on the side. I also think it would be easier to earn $2K per month playing small stakes online and learning to bonus whore.

Anyways, I've played about 20 times live at 5-10 (about 160 hours total) and I'm up almost $3K but this was based mainly on two huge sessions and a bunch of close to break even ones. I would hate to have to rely on playing at these stakes for money that I needed. I could easily be down a grand after that much playing (I would have cut myself off if I lost more than that).

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Just play internet poker for spending cash and pick a school based on it's program and fun factor.

You can always go to Vegas/LA/AC on breaks to blow off steam.

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you are about 45 to an hour from Foxwoods. Very fishy games

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Is this true? I've never been there, but everyone I've talked to who has, has said the games are WAY tougher that Vegas games.

Bobby

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i have been doing alot of research today since making this post and so far, UNLV seem like a good fit for me, so what i have taken from everyone on this is that i should get a regular job and play poker and go to school, sounds good to me its exactly what i am doing rigth now, now all i have to do is find a job, i have many skills, im 6'4 350 ex lineman and wrestler im sure i can find a job at any resturant and strip club, anyone know of any good dance clubs and strip clubs that could use a big guy,or anyone know if dealing poker could be a good college job, i have so many questions

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How is the culinary school at UNLV?

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the culinary manegment is one of the best in the country