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PokerLizard: So what if somebody you knew wanted to drop out of college and play poker? What would you tell them?

Townsend: Go for it.

PokerLizard: You're the first person to ever say that.

Townsend: I mean, you know it's not going to be easy. You're not just going to magically be making millions of dollars a day but if you work hard and you work on your game you can definitely succeed in this industry. There's a lot of money to be made. So I would say go for it and if it doesn't work out it doesn't work out.

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from: Brian Townsend Interview

It's usually...don't do it...graduate first so you have something to fall back on, or if you have what it takes to play poker you can make much more in business. His view is kind of refreshing.

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I wouldn't expect a guy who has made millions and set himself up for life, at such a young age, by playing poker to say anything else.

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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truth.

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The correct advice is to say don't do it because if its really right for someone and they're ready they will go for it regardless

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Townsend: Yeah. It's kind of funny. Last summer I came out and I brought maybe $100,000.00, which is a lot of money for me. And I did really well one night — a quarter million or even more when I was playing some 200/400 no-limit. And a lot of the live pros were just giving me [censored]. Nobody knew who I was. They were just generally just [censored]. One guy challenged me to a heads up, freeze out, dick waving competition, bring a million dollars, whole thing. And then this summer I come out and he's like, "Oh, can I have a loan?" And he was totally sucking up to me and you just gotta realize some people are like that and deal with it accordingly.

[censored] awesome

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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you dont have to be in college tho to have just as much fun as any other college kid, you just have to some social skills and some friends

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Townsend: Yeah. It's kind of funny. Last summer I came out and I brought maybe $100,000.00, which is a lot of money for me. And I did really well one night — a quarter million or even more when I was playing some 200/400 no-limit. And a lot of the live pros were just giving me [censored]. Nobody knew who I was. They were just generally just [censored]. One guy challenged me to a heads up, freeze out, dick waving competition, bring a million dollars, whole thing. And then this summer I come out and he's like, "Oh, can I have a loan?" And he was totally sucking up to me and you just gotta realize some people are like that and deal with it accordingly.

[censored] awesome

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Would that be A Cool Million?

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why is it rarely mentioned that you can do both?

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why is it rarely mentioned that you can do both?

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yeah, seriously. I never went to college or anyting like that but how much of your time does it honestly take up?

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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you dont have to be in college tho to have just as much fun as any other college kid, you just have to some social skills and some friends

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100% agree. College, as in actual college and not the stuff that comes with it, is not fun. You can get the other stuff easily without going to college.

I find poker fun and I suspect anyone that would be able to do it as a living and be very successful would too.

So to say college is fun and poker is not is pretty backwards imo.

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go to college, get a degree, make money on a consistent basis, that is the way to go

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why is it rarely mentioned that you can do both?

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yeah, seriously. I never went to college or anyting like that but how much of your time does it honestly take up?

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it doesn't have to take up much if you don't want it to, but you probably won't get that much out of it if you don't put in the time. Going to school while playing poker is not advisable. You will probably do mediocre in both, or bad in one and ok in another, in my personal experience. I agree with Brian on this one.

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I dropped out of college at 19 and went back at 24, it wasn't that bad but I look young so people don't ask me to buy them beer or anything.

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I'd say go the college route, that way you can study game theory and learn how to make aggressive calls.

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Do many people play more than 4 hours of poker a day anyway? Doing both should be achievable I think. The only difficulty would be at the end of the year around exam time from my perspective. I would have to stop playing for 3 weeks so I can out one hundred percent into the exams but other than that it should be possible to do both I believe.

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it's possible to do both, but college is distracting. I dropped recently and do much better in poker now, as well as get in more hours in.

dropout = profit.

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There are so many people in college who either don't want to be there or shouldn't be there. It makes sense for those people to focus on other money-making ventures than sinking their money into a college degree.

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go to college, get a degree, make money on a consistent basis, that is the way to go

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Yeah aba or cts should def. go to school for 4 years to get a job that might pay $100k/year.

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it's pretty obvious that the correct answer is yes for some people and no for others

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Trust me. College will be one of the best and EASIEST times of your life. You don't need much money to have fun and the snatch is plentiful!

If you think College is hard... then you are a loser.

Poker is a bore when you are grinding for a living... there are much cooler and more exciting professions to strive for... how about owning/starting a Poker mag? Best of both worlds!

Poker and life in general sucks when you are on a losing streak. Why deal with any "losing streaks" if you don't have to... life is too short!

If you work hard and make the right decisions in life you will almost ALWAYS succeed! Poker can kick your arse big time... even when you hold the Aces! [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

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There are so many people in college who either don't want to be there or shouldn't be there. It makes sense for those people to focus on other money-making ventures than sinking their money into a college degree.

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This is crazy. More than anything else, higher education increases your chance of prosperity, whether you're bored by lectures or not. It only makes sense to skip college if you're more concerned about having free time during the next four years than having a comfortable life for the remaining 50+ years.

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100% agree. College, as in actual college and not the stuff that comes with it, is not fun. You can get the other stuff easily without going to college.

I find poker fun and I suspect anyone that would be able to do it as a living and be very successful would too.

So to say college is fun and poker is not is pretty backwards imo.

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qft

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Trust me. College will be one of the best and EASIEST times of your life. You don't need much money to have fun and the snatch is plentiful!

If you think College is hard... then you are a loser.

Poker is a bore when you are grinding for a living... there are much cooler and more exciting professions to strive for... how about owning/starting a Poker mag? Best of both worlds!

Poker and life in general sucks when you are on a losing streak. Why deal with any "losing streaks" if you don't have to... life is too short!

If you work hard and make the right decisions in life you will almost ALWAYS succeed! Poker can kick your arse big time... even when you hold the Aces!

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this post is a beat

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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Pretty sure that most of the successful poker players that are foregoing college are having a pretty good time too.

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go to college, get a degree, make money on a consistent basis, that is the way to go

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Yeah aba or cts should def. go to school for 4 years to get a job that might pay $50k/year.

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Not many people make much more then that at their first job out of college. If you do then you are one of the lucky ones.

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solid advice didn't need him to tell me that tough

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Townsend: Yeah. It's kind of funny. Last summer I came out and I brought maybe $100,000.00, which is a lot of money for me. And I did really well one night — a quarter million or even more when I was playing some 200/400 no-limit. And a lot of the live pros were just giving me [censored]. Nobody knew who I was. They were just generally just [censored]. One guy challenged me to a heads up, freeze out, dick waving competition, bring a million dollars, whole thing. And then this summer I come out and he's like, "Oh, can I have a loan?" And he was totally sucking up to me and you just gotta realize some people are like that and deal with it accordingly.

[censored] awesome

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I asked him if it was Matusow...he said no...

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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look at how profitable poker was say 2yrs ago and look at the state of the games today. poker will not always be as profitable as it was, or even is today.

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Personally, I agree with the do both route. In particular, I'd love to have all that money AND be a college student.

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I dropped out of college at 19 and went back at 24, it wasn't that bad but I look young so people don't ask me to buy them beer or anything.

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http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6...4fc3cb3gn2.jpg

I keep getting older, the college chicks just stay the same age.

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100% agree. College, as in actual college and not the stuff that comes with it, is not fun. You can get the other stuff easily without going to college.

I find poker fun and I suspect anyone that would be able to do it as a living and be very successful would too.

So to say college is fun and poker is not is pretty backwards imo.

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qft

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Trust me. College will be one of the best and EASIEST times of your life. You don't need much money to have fun and the snatch is plentiful!

If you think College is hard... then you are a loser.

Poker is a bore when you are grinding for a living... there are much cooler and more exciting professions to strive for... how about owning/starting a Poker mag? Best of both worlds!

Poker and life in general sucks when you are on a losing streak. Why deal with any "losing streaks" if you don't have to... life is too short!

If you work hard and make the right decisions in life you will almost ALWAYS succeed! Poker can kick your arse big time... even when you hold the Aces!

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this post is a beat

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Not sure what this means... if it means "the truth" then I agree.

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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Pretty sure that most of the successful poker players that are foregoing college are having a pretty good time too.

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Yeah, all 10 of em!

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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truth.

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def

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go to college, get a degree, make money on a consistent basis,retire by 65 that is the way to go

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sounds awesome, lemme know how it works out.

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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look at how profitable poker was say 2yrs ago and look at the state of the games today. poker will not always be as profitable as it was, or even is today.

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yes it will, poker will ALWAYS be profitable, it just won't be that way for as many people.

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go to college, get a degree, make money on a consistent basis, that is the way to go

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Yeah aba or cts should def. go to school for 4 years to get a job that might pay $50k/year.

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Not many people make much more then that at their first job out of college. If you do then you are one of the lucky ones.

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Yeah, Obv. bumped a bit because you get raises or whatever, but a lot of 1/2nl players are making as much as someone a few years out of college.

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it's pretty obvious that the correct answer is yes for some people and no for others

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college is fun. Poker is not. Poker will always be there. College is not as fun when you're 25 and everyone else is 18-22

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look at how profitable poker was say 2yrs ago and look at the state of the games today. poker will not always be as profitable as it was, or even is today.

[/ QUOTE ]What do you think the top %10 of online players' average hourly was then?

Now?

I think the games evolve and as they do you get better too, so I'm not sure if it was really more profitable then for the average winning player than it is now.

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It's just a lot harder to back to school when your 35 and busto... Better off to graduate, then take chances in life.

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100% agree. College, as in actual college and not the stuff that comes with it, is not fun. You can get the other stuff easily without going to college.

I find poker fun and I suspect anyone that would be able to do it as a living and be very successful would too.

So to say college is fun and poker is not is pretty backwards imo.

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qft

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Trust me. College will be one of the best and EASIEST times of your life. You don't need much money to have fun and the snatch is plentiful!

If you think College is hard... then you are a loser.

Poker is a bore when you are grinding for a living... there are much cooler and more exciting professions to strive for... how about owning/starting a Poker mag? Best of both worlds!

Poker and life in general sucks when you are on a losing streak. Why deal with any "losing streaks" if you don't have to... life is too short!

If you work hard and make the right decisions in life you will almost ALWAYS succeed! Poker can kick your arse big time... even when you hold the Aces!

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this post is a beat

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Not sure what this means... if it means "the truth" then I agree.

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You must have gotten a job after college.