Quitting Poker (LONG)

[TheMetetron]

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I started playing when I was a senior in high school on partypoker. I have to say that I am surprised that you are quitting. I didn't find it a problem to balance poker and a social life, much like many kids in high school have part time jobs. In addition, I was able to use the money I made to basically do whatever I wanted. Personally, I can see myself being a lifetime poker player. Poker will allow me to take a low paying job such as a teacher while making most of my income from poker. As for your grades, I highly doubt that a college will not accept you based on your senior grades, especially your second semester senior grades. My opinion is that you should prioritize. My priorities are something like this, 1) friends 2) poker 3) school 4) family 5) girls.

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you are officially gay. The ONLY reason poker goes above the others in my case is because the rent depends on it. If it didn't, girls would definitely be much higher than 5th.

[nongice626]

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Not to knock you or anything Awesemo, but I just don't see how a highschool student can play at a high enough level to make it worthwhile to play poker, while still keeping a healthy balance of school and a socail life. And by making it worthwhile I mean you must be pulling in a minumum of 25k a year atleast for me. That level is probably considerably less to most teenagers but that is because I live pretty comfortably as does my parents. Although I am confident I could pull in those numbers I just would rather focus on other activities right now. I don't know the level that you play at but you have to put in a decent amount of time and really have to dedicate yourself to the game to do this when you have other things like school involved. It is simply a rough life for a teenager to live when he has to go through the phsycological problems that poker creates such as massive downswings. How many teenagers do you think can really drop 2k in one night and still feel good about themselves in the morning? Not to many that I know of. I know I struggled through my downswings.

Just from you ranking Poker above family and even girls when you are a highschool student shows to most people that you don't have a healthy balance of poker in your life.

Also colleges can reject you just from one D in your required classes even after you have been accepted.

Awesemo I am curious as to what stakes you play at and how old you are now?

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wtf are you talking about?

a half shitty poker player can easily make $30/huor on party mutlitabling.

if he plays 20 hours a week, about 3 huors a day, thats $600/week, 25,000/year

OP probally sucked at poker.

[ChrisCo]

More honesty? I don't know what else I could say. Do you fell like I am leaving something out? I am curious what you mean by this.

Also I know that Poly is a much more respected school than Chico. I have already been accepted to Chico under a business major. My grades aren't super high and I don't have many extra curricular activities in the last couple of years due to my foot injury. Because of this the only way I felt I could get accepted into Cal Poly is if I picked an easy major. I chose the same major as my brother which happens to be basically the easiest major to get into the school, AG business. Also you can't go into Cal Poly under one major and then switch, it is basically impossible. So with this I feel that it would be the best for me to pursue the major that I truly want, business, instead of Ag business.

[4thstreetpete]

Hey bud, great post! You're definately very mature for your age and it doesn't surprise me that you'll be fine in the the future.

I had a similar story when I was 18. We didn't have online poker then as I learned to play poker when I worked as a dealer at the casinos. I would always see the same people win all the time so I knew very early on that poker was definately a game of skill.
It was then that I started playing a lot at the B&M's and spent a lot of my time at the underground casinos. I didn't know what I was doing at first but learned very quickly afterwards.
I was making a lot of money then and built up a pretty good reputation for myself at the undergrounds. I remember countless days where I would skip all my clssses to play poker. The worst it ever got was when a friend and I once pulled a 28 hour marathon playing poker. Needless to say my grades at school were in the toilet. I was an honor student prior.

It was soon after that I met the love of my life. The most incredible girl I've ever met. Our relationship was great except for the fact that I was still spending a lot of time playing poker. I remember feeling like crap that I left my girl at home while I was playing poker till 7 or 8 in the morning at the undergrounds. I was making really good money for an 18 or 19 yr old but I really hated my life. I knew I needed to change.

I look back now and I'm so glad that I stopped playing poker for those years because I really had some of the best times of my life afterwards. Poker was great and I never really had to worry about money like a lot of my friends but being 19 I didn't want to spend the next few years of my life grinding it out for endless hours like that. I was there everyday.

Now it's a different story I'm back at poker although this time it's online which I prefer much more (money is better).

I totally understand your situation and respect it. Good luck with everything and go enjoy your life. Money is not everything and poker will always be there when you decide to come back.

[Wake up CALL]

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Do you fell like I am leaving something out?

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Most certainly.

[ChrisCo]

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Do you fell like I am leaving something out?

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Most certainly.

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Care to elaborate more on that? It seems like you know what I am leaving out but I am unsure what you mean.

Why don't you just come out and say it?

[nongice626]

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More honesty? I don't know what else I could say. Do you fell like I am leaving something out? I am curious what you mean by this.

Also I know that Poly is a much more respected school than Chico. I have already been accepted to Chico under a business major. My grades aren't super high and I don't have many extra curricular activities in the last couple of years due to my foot injury. Because of this the only way I felt I could get accepted into Cal Poly is if I picked an easy major. I chose the same major as my brother which happens to be basically the easiest major to get into the school, AG business. Also you can't go into Cal Poly under one major and then switch, it is basically impossible. So with this I feel that it would be the best for me to pursue the major that I truly want, business, instead of Ag business.

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the most important thing to do is get laid and smoek alot of pot.

what do you think all these old fucks on this website would rather go back and do: get laid or get a better degree from a better university?

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You expect us to believe that your parents never offered any encouragement for you to change your evil ways after your grades fell off?

[ChrisCo]

It was mostly my Mom that would put pressure on me to limit my play but it was I that made the sole decision to stop playing poker. My grades didn't drop as drastically this semester as it did my Junior year. I went from about a 3.7 avg my first to years to a .8 my first semester of junior year. A large percentage of this could be contributed to me missing so much school and being so down from my injury but part of it was poker. I ended up having a meeting with all my teachers and they agreed to give me 1 month to turn in any late work and make up any tests I could. I ended up bringing it to a somewhat respectful Gpa.

This semester I got a 3.0 which isn't anything bad but I am capable of much more than that. If I would have wanted to continue to play I would have been able to play all the way through the summer into college. My parents realize that I am a pretty smart player and they would let me continue to play at my own free will.

It was completely my choice to give it up. Very little influence came from them.

[ChrisCo]

Nongice you are right with your numbers, I was just trying to make a point with the poster. It wouldn't be to hard to make 25k a year playing but it would take a considerable amount of your life away while still going through high school as a teenager.