I like poker so I'm going to quit school.

[snowbank]

i wasn't joking. i think he has a myopic, naive, overly optimistic outlook on whatever. i like the guy and wish him well so i hope that whatever bad thing will happen will happen quickly so he can develop some sort of base structure. i'm not talking about a law degree or anything, and like i said i didn't even go to college. but i think you have to "just figure it out once it happens" at least once before you can expect to do that and succeed.

I don't understand why you want him to fail. I am not attacking your post, I am genuinly interested. If he's happy doing what he's doing, that's awesome. Most people get a job just to have one, and try and hang on to it until retirement. Zee's route seems like it will continue to enable him to enjoy his life.

[sublime]

don't understand why you want him to fail. I am not attacking your post, I am genuinly interested. If he's happy doing what he's doing, that's awesome. Most people get a job just to have one, and try and hang on to it until retirement. Zee's route seems like it will continue to enable him to enjoy his life.

i dont think he wants him to fail, or is wishing anything bad on him at all.

[astroglide]

career/stability in general

[astroglide]

i think it's more about enjoying his present than enjoying his life. we all live in the present tense but we end up needing the past to support ourselves.

[sublime]

career/stability in general

i may be mistaken, but i am pretty sure you play for a living. granted you are probably one of the best internet players around, but what do you have to fall back on that zee doesnt? or is that you are not as optimistic about the future of online poker or didnt give up as much az zee did?

[snowbank]

i think it's more about enjoying his present than enjoying his life. we all live in the present tense but we end up needing the past to support ourselves.

So you're just talking about him investing his winnings for his future and making sure he doesn't spend it? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[astroglide]

i only play 60 hours per month. i have a full-time job as a network engineer for a grid/cluster software development company and self-employment on the side doing IT consulting for property development and venture capital businesses (some of the best ones for referrals and meeting other business owners). i will do singleton work for whoever but i only keep on call with people who are seriously low maintenance.

it's almost a coinflip moneywise between my jobs and poker, but any two of the three sources of income i have could drop out and i could focus on the remaining one. i don't think online poker is going to last in its present, easy state much longer. that will actually make me happy because i'm pretty sick of people taking it for granted and assuming that they're amazing when they're not.

[curtains]

There were plenty of people who made money from poker before the "pokerboom". Some people's skill level won't be high enough when the "boom" ends, if it ever does, and they will be the ones with the biggest problems. However the exceptional players should still be able to make plenty of money. Perhaps they won't make as much, but they'll still be alright.

[sthief09]

I go to like the shittiest social school there is (columbia) and I think the "college life" more than makes up for the getting up early, studying for tests, and doing hw. I briefly skimmed through this, but didn't see anyone mention this. I don't get it. for one, it's fun, and two, getting life experience working with and living around so many people my age, is incredibly important and something I couldn't get sitting in front of a computer screen for 5 hours a day, and beating off the rest. there is no replacement for the college experience, and I don't just mean education

[Zoltri]

I have a great idea.
Why dont these young brash guys learn some business skills and run their own online poker site or open a B&M and leave the poker to others.

Now that would be impressive.