<p>Let's say I wanted to have a game sometime. Is it relatively easy to just go around your floor or house or wherever you dwell, or make a few calls, and have something started up right away at most reasonable times? Or is it more of a weekly or so occasion?</p>
<p>best card game = Mao</p>
<p>I'd be willing to go out on a limb and say that card playing is the most prevalent social activity on a college campus.
Danny, I think it's fairly easy to get a game, most anyone will play just to pass the time, and everyone loves gambling :p</p>
<p>I don't want to derail the thread (I'll probably end up making a separate thread in the Parents Forum since my parents don't support me at all) but I'm really considering dropping out to focus exclusively on playing poker professionally. Sad to say, but I think my studies are getting in the way of my poker playing and there's really nothing else I want to do with my life.</p>
<p>I've recently had a friend drop out (you'll see him on TV in the coming weeks, he recently won the WPT finale at Foxwoods for 2.2 million; since then [three weeks ago] he's won another 2.3 million playing side games) and he doesn't regret it at all. Hell, if I was up 4.5 million in three weeks I wouldn't either (and he was going to a top 5 school in the country). We went to Foxwoods on Monday and tore up the 5/10 Stud H/L table before I got kicked out (no ID :eek: )
Another friend I have at Stanford has won $107,000 in the past month online and is considering dropping out as well. I don't know what he started his bankroll at.</p>
<p>To answer sooners' question:
It's nearly impossible to find high limit games, especially in the "obscure" games. I myself will not play NL Hold 'Em cash games, especially at micro limits. Online, I usually play 30/60 Omaha H/L and at the casino I'm usually at the 5/10 or 10/20 Stud H/L tables. No one I know is even willing to play Omaha H/L let alone at 30/60 limits (you DO need about $900 to sit down with :-/).</p>
<p>Lastly, if anyone is ever up for a game of online poker, I play at PokerStars and Full Tilt under the name Ecliptica. Come find me at a table and let me lose some money to ya :)</p>
<p>I've thought about playing professionally since I first started playing. Truth is, I don't really have much to gauge my skill level besides the kids around here (high schoolers who are mostly unbelievably reckless). One thing is for certain though, it's risky. And for that one Foxwoods winner, there's a lot of losers. I think of it as a fun and profitable (or most of the time anyways, wink wink) enterprise that appeals to my competitive nature. But I can't really picture it as a sole occupation. More of something on the side or something to go to once I retire at 25 after selling my start-up company for billions of dollars. Good luck though with that, and perhaps my views will change once I begin tearing up tables at a college near you. Hehehe.</p>