OT: My mom wants me to be a poker pro

[Slim Pickens]

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Wears the brass rat and everything.

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I'm pretty sure the women's ring is designed primarily for self-defense. Ugly as all hell... nice and heavy for punching horny nerds.

[liucipher]

She had to stop wearing it recently - medical residency [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Speaking of which: when I advocate a good career over quitting school to play poker, playing poker is probably +EV in comparison to med school [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[MegaBet]

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I have no idea what my parents think. I never thought to ask them.

Lori

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Have you shared with them the fact that you're a smoking hot lesbian? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Or are you waiting on breakin' that news as well?

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Yugoslav

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We're all waiting for the hot picture of Lorinda. If anyone had one, Yugo would [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Isura]

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You need to explain to her that online pwns live poker, and that it is best to stay in college and enjoy a (hopefully) profitable hobby. Mom's today, always wanting their kids to go pro, ignoring the hard work and downside, only seeing the dollar signs of fast, easy money...

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POTD.

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$50 an hour playing 2/4? Are you serious? A great player would have to run hot for the whole year to average $10 an hour. $100k a year playing 2/4, yeah!

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Well OK if that's too high for you, then howbout 3/6? The level of skill doesn't change that much at casinos moving to that level. I've had many of 2/4 sessions where I did 100/hr. I think it is reasonable that you could do $50 an hour playing 3/6 if you played correctly over the longrun. My experience is that tables at casinos are rediculously loose at that level, so you just adjust accordingly.

To address the other post about finance jobs, what do these finance people do exactly right out of college that are making a bundle as is mentioned? I'm not challenging your knowledge I would just like to know because I'll soon be looking for one. I'm a finance major myself and have had several recent encounters with "financial" offices offering positions to recent college grads. You think you're becoming an analyst or advisor but instead they get you all excited and you find yourself doing cold calls for 80+ hours a week, selling out your family and friends as possible clients. That's how it goes here in Orlando anyway. Too many companies try to take advantage of ignorant college grads, seen it happen over and over again. I would love to come across a legitimate financial office that means well for the clients instead of trying to get them to sign up for insurance and "financial plans" (selling only the company securities and nothing else). Some companies I'm talking about include Ameriprise, Northwestern Mutual, and Meryl Lynch. Don't get me wrong, if you don't mind how these companies operate and are good at it, you can make LOTS of money. I'm just trying to see if you are referring to these types or not. Most people just consider these positions morally wrong.

[Hornacek]

I work at a proprietary trading firm. My roommate (another MIT grad) works at Bank of America for Mortgage-Backed Securities. And trading is different from brokering.

There are other jobs out there besides sales, ya know.

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I'm pretty sure you can't extrapolate your $/hr rate when you're running hot + when the casino is at maximum donk capacity to a full 40 hour week. e.g. I've noticed my SNG ROI is better when there are 50,000+ players online than when there are ~20,000 players.

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Well I went on a Tuesday early afternoon. There was basically no wait and all the tables weren't filled. I don't have very extensive casino experience but wouldn't it be harder during the day like that when people are there to make money instead of have fun for the most part? I do realize that it was low limit and my table was still filled with "donks" and you just had to wait for the cards. It was actually pretty fun because pot odds go out the window when you get 8+ players in every pot.

Forgive me, I'm a newb to this forum. What does, for example, 2bb/100 mean? Everyone talks about profit and such like that, I guess I don't know the lingo. Sorry in advance.

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I just graduated with my Bachelors ('04) and Masters ('05) in Computer Science from MIT and am working in NY on Wall Street. My first year pay, while not amazing compared to what I hope to make in the future, is probably the same amount any of the top 5% of the players here will make in a year.

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That is awesome, congrats. I'm sure you worked quite hard at MIT for that masters. How did you find that position? Or did it find you? As I said above, I'm finance major but pretty dissapointed with the prospects I've found as of yet. A big dream of mine would be to apply financial applications (investing, cashflow analysis, etc.) to alternative energy (wind turbine/solar power), but I'll have to search far and wide to find a good one in that field. That is great that you landed an awesome position early on.

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There are other jobs out there besides sales, ya know.

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I realize. That's just what we are presented with around here.

[bugstud]

if you could live off of 3/6 live, we'd be doing it. You can't.