Playing poker during class

Cactus Cactus · #1 08-24-2005, 01:36 PM

There has got to be nothing better than check raising the nut flush in a huge multiway pot while everyone else is listening to the VERY boring lecture about mirco-economics

**I love online poker

Sponger15SB · #2 08-24-2005, 01:45 PM

I've played poker during class tons of times. I was back at my house though [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

SackUp · #3 08-24-2005, 01:51 PM

why even go to class then? I've never really understood that. If you are not going ot pay attention then no sense in really going. Unless your prof takes attendance, but not many do especially in large classes that you would be able to get away with playing poker in.

I would try to pay attention some. Poker will only get you so far. Plus there is some interesting sh1t you can learn in college.

Hornacek · #4 08-24-2005, 01:54 PM

Only time I've played in class was for this incredibly amazing class i took this past spring. It was the last class I needed to get my Masters degree, but prior to signing up for the class, my advisor warned me that 2 out of 3 classes would be utter ennui, but every third class would be amazing inspiration. Since this class met once a week, I brought my laptop, and I would play whenever I was bored.

StacysMom · #5 08-24-2005, 02:22 PM

I did undedrgrad at U of IL and played every class period, save exams, after I got my laptop. It is redic.

nfpceo · #6 08-24-2005, 02:30 PM

I barely went to classes my Freshman and Sophmore years of college and did just fine. To me it was more efficient to use the time I would spending walking and sitting in class, to teach myself the material. It was always a good feeling doing better than my friends who wasted time sitting through a class when all you had to do was study the book on your own time. Later on most of my professors took attendance which sucked because class was such a waste of time.

handsome · #7 08-24-2005, 02:30 PM

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why even go to class then? I've never really understood that. If you are not going ot pay attention then no sense in really going. Unless your prof takes attendance, but not many do especially in large classes that you would be able to get away with playing poker in.

I would try to pay attention some. Poker will only get you so far. Plus there is some interesting sh1t you can learn in college.

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Some people can actually multi-task. *GASP*!

Python49 · #8 08-24-2005, 02:47 PM

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why even go to class then? I've never really understood that. If you are not going ot pay attention then no sense in really going. Unless your prof takes attendance, but not many do especially in large classes that you would be able to get away with playing poker in.

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Because some professors are gay and will drop your grade based on attendance.

Phishy McFish · #9 08-24-2005, 02:57 PM

A few reason come to mind from someone who would have gone EVEN LESS and taken even longer to get his bachelor's if online poker and laptops were as popular "back in the day" (read 90's).

-Pop Quiz

-Homework may be assigned

-See members of the opposite sex (hell other humans in general).....and this is key because I actually wonder how many 2+2ers are pasty white, delivery eating, cyber sloths.

-can play tight and only stop paying attention when the premium hands come.

Mendacious · #10 08-24-2005, 07:05 PM

What's better is: being stuck in a bumper to bumper traffic jam, turning on the laptop, inserting the Verizon Broadband card, starting up my favorite poker client (with PT and PA of course) and tripling up with the nut flush against two made straights on the river right as I cleared the traffic jam.

And for those of you who are safety minded, my seatbelt was on, and I would NEVER multi-table and drive!