I like poker so I'm going to quit school. - Page 3

LALDAAS · #21 02-04-2005, 03:51 PM

I am talkin about all the chumps sitting there watching ESPN and the WSOP and then loggin in to party on a wish and a hope. yokin out there credit cards just to lose $100 sooner or later this crowd is 1) going to give up 2) actually learn how to play.

I think this fad isnt going any where any time soon nor will it ever competely dry up however I do belive it will thin out.

Patrick del Poker Grande · #22 02-04-2005, 03:52 PM

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I think it's great. In a few years we will have a nice crop of very experienced dealers in the cardrooms. Nice to have dealers who have played a lot of poker.

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Nice.

bogey · #23 02-04-2005, 03:59 PM

I think kids should stay in college, but more so for the college experience than the necessary lifetime EV. The amount of money kids are making now playing poker is sometime 4 to 5 times they would be making coming out of college with a degree.

Being able to make that kind of money in the short term opens up longer term entrepenuarial goals and a greater chance at real wealth than slaving it out for the man getting a $4k raise every year.

They can always take the money they made playing poker and go back and get a good education later too and do anything.

Now that being said, each case is different and I feel a lot of people may be making a mistake doing it, but for some, its probably a good idea. Think of is this way, a lot of lawyers graduating a top law school and working for a good law firm for over 5 years can be expecting to be earning $200k a year. Some kids are doing that now, without all the time investment, with more free time, and without paying $150k on top of college for law school.

fnord_too · #24 02-04-2005, 04:01 PM

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However I have been thinking about how long does everyone think the online scene will stay profitable for. This fad will end sooner or later and all that will be left are the sharks.

Comments?

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I wonder if the first prostitutes thought "Wow, I wonder how long guys will keep paying us for sex!"

astroglide · #25 02-04-2005, 04:01 PM

i didn't even go to college and i think dropping out for online poker (or any other career-dropping move without an ability to reasonably succeed in poker's absence) is a profoundly retarded idea

scrub · #26 02-04-2005, 04:13 PM

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I think it's great. In a few years we will have a nice crop of very experienced dealers in the cardrooms. Nice to have dealers who have played a lot of poker.

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I actually doubt most people dropping out of school to play poker will be well qualified to deal. Well, apart from speaking the languagae.

scrub

Poker Chief · #27 02-04-2005, 04:14 PM

Who the Fvck cares what you think? It isn't your choice and you don't have to deal with it.

johnnycakes · #28 02-04-2005, 04:16 PM

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I for one would never leave my job for it,

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I would. I absolutely hate my job.
I hate sitting in this cube in a windowless room under florescent lights for 8 hours a day.

In fact, my goal this year is to quit my job. August is the target month. But I will only actually quit if I have a funds in the bank/roll to live for a year.

Hopefully I'll make enough money at poker that I can do something else in the near future. I'm not sure what that is yet. It could be going back to school. It could be opening my own Subway franchise (cheap). I'll never go back to IT, and if at all possible, I'll be my own boss.

JoeC · #29 02-04-2005, 04:28 PM

I set a rule early on that I'm not going to leave school unless I can make 500k annually.

daryn · #30 02-04-2005, 04:28 PM

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I am talkin about all the chumps sitting there watching ESPN and the WSOP and then loggin in to party on a wish and a hope. yokin out there credit cards just to lose $100 sooner or later this crowd is 1) going to give up 2) actually learn how to play.

I think this fad isnt going any where any time soon nor will it ever competely dry up however I do belive it will thin out.

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yeah.. in other news, casinos will no longer offer blackjack. it just simply isn't profitable for them anymore. they should've listened to the analyst who told them years ago:

"these people aren't going to keep coming to our casino and losing $100 playing blackjack. sooner or later they are going to give up, or start counting cards, then we're cooked."