my first post minus well be controversial

[crow1713]

you suck at life. all of your opinions are now worthless to humanity.

[crow1713]

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Penn -- Joe Paterno suks.


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you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. UPenn and Penn State aren't the same school.

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No I'm pretty sure about this.

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You are wrong. Penn State is a different school than Penn.
Sports conferences example; Penn State= Big Ten, Penn= Ivy League

[econophile]

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Penn -- Joe Paterno suks.


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you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. UPenn and Penn State aren't the same school.

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No I'm pretty sure about this.

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I don't understand irony. Someone help me.

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[fsuplayer]

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luv,
the J.J. Redick of Poker

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strassa-

i thought your first gimmick account would be better.

im disappointed.

[Sponger.]

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i cant stop laughing at "minus well"

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I spent about a minute looking at the title wondering wtf he was talking about before I even opened this thread.

This whole thread is ridiculous.

[dankhank]

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from my small sample size of you guys and the guys i know from UMD, MN seems to have a higher EDIT:skill/'total players (at least mid limit winners)' ratio but UMD produced the few high high limit players who consistently win at those limits. ive yet to see great players from the schools OP listed (or can't think of any at the moment)


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there is one expert player about to graduate from harvard but hes a ghost player, like james sousa

[MonsterJ]

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sorry bro...we dont even rank

Barron

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Haha, I know, i was being facetious. When I am known to be a real good player, that shows how bad we are.

[ihardlyknowher]

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Your logic is flawed, as for the truly genius world shakers of Yale and Harvard, poker is -ev and a waste of their time.
The smart ones (most all of them) recognize this quickly. While they surely have the potential to be the best players, to invest the time and effort to do so would almost surely be -EV. So why would Harvard students make -EV decisions? Maybe slight gambling prob, in which case their potential drops down a bit.

The truly great players should come from working/middle class backgrounds and public universities: Players with high IQ's, but with no lucrative connections/daddy's company they're passing on running after college to play poker.

Basically, for brilliant harvard guys, you're wasting your time with a -ev game like poker. Get your degree, become Senators, make millions on wall street etc

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I think you got your idea of the Ivy League out of a comic book or something. Ivy Leaguers ARE middle class. And they don't see poker as -EV compared to the working world whatsoever. I graduated from an Ivy. Did the I-banking thing for a while (internships) then management consulting after college. Poker is waaaaaay more lucrative. Thanks to poker I'm making as much as the Ivy grads with 12-14 years of consulting experience under their belts. All my Ivy buddies resent their desk-jockey lives immensely, and hope to emulate my entrepreneurial success themselves in some measure.

Can you be a senator or a Wall Street millionaire when you're 20-something? You have to put in a lifetime of effort into either, and even then it's far from a guarantee that you'll be successful all the way up. The typical Ivy grad who becomes a full-time employee and puts in 20 years of 60 hour workweeks ends up with a random/obscure management job in a Fortune 500 company making 300k a year, running the "development objectives" module of the "integrated initiatives" project or whatever... and that guy runs out his clock living a life of quiet desperation and complete obscurity, until retiring to FLA to watch TV all day.

My former colleagues at my places of employment, all of whom are educated at Ivy or equivalent schools, see my poker opportunity as something they would kill to be able to have... even the guys who are in their 30s with MBAs. Nobody wants to grind out 60 hours a week on utterly meaningless and passionless work, year in and year out, never getting much closer to achieving financial freedom.

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You didn't get your "key to the universe" at graduation? You must have gone to Brown. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[donkeyradish]

You need to get out more. The world is bigger than your back yard.

[Erik W]

You need to get out more. The world is bigger than your back yard.

I don't really care but I did a search on poker capital and came up with this.

http://212.22.229.210/community/bigs...1/feature2.htm


Feature
Is there something in the water? The rise and rise of Linkoping.

When you think of high-limit poker, the place that most readily springs to mind is Las Vegas. But try it again, this time thinking of internet poker. Still thinking of Vegas? But maybe you shouldn’t be, as a small Swedish city is fast becoming the internet poker capital of the world. And it’s not just the poker capital in terms of the percentage of the population that play. It’s the poker capital in the sense that everyone who plays seems to be so very, very good.

For a start, it’s home to some of Victor Chandler Poker’s most talented and successful players. And it’s also the residence of Erik Sagstrom, the infamous King of Ding, reported to be the world’s most successful ever online poker player with winnings rumoured to be around the million euros mark.

So, in a spirit of intrepid journalism, we decided to investigate further. And after being told there was no chance of a trip to Sweden, undeterred we’ve scoured the web to bring you the lowdown on the poker hotbed that is Linkoping.

* FACT! Linkoping has the highest concentration of engineers in Sweden.
* FACT! Linkoping’s population is 134,000.
* FACT! Linkoping has over 23,000 students (that’s nearly one in six).
* FACT! There are 250 Professors in Linkoping.
* FACT! The Swedish aviation industry was born in Linkoping.
* FACT! Linkoping is home to the Mjardevi Science Park which offers 155,000m2 of office space.
* FACT! Linkoping specialises in IT, Life Sciences, Aviation, Electronic and Communications Technology.

At a recent Dublin-based poker tournament, we managed to catch up with one of Linkoping’s finest after he came third in the €1000 NL event (despite never having played in a real-world tournament before – see, told you they were good.). And according to our source, much of Linkoping’s internet poker success, and indeed, internet poker’s success in Linkoping, can be traced back to a pool hall in the city that’s also home to an internet café. It’s here that a few people (including Erik Sagstrom himself) started playing regular online poker, and as people watched and were spurred on by their friend’s successes, they decided to take up the game too.

Still, that doesn’t really explain why Linkoping’s players seem to be so darn good. Could it be that it’s a highly educated city with a large student population? Do those long winter nights give plenty of opportunity for practise? Or are they putting something in the water? We’re still not sure.

Are you from Linkoping? If so, we’d like to hear from you and find out more about the town and why it’s such a hotbed of internet poker (how did you get involved?). Tell us all, as we’d love to do a follow up article.