my first post minus well be controversial

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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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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.

[JohnnyHumongous]

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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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and it ain't close.

TSP

[Justin A]

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Stanford, and it's not close.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure there's a 50/100 NL Pro that goes here too.

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Wtf you go to Stanford?

[MonsterJ]

Its Washington University in St. Louis, and its not even close.

[TempusFugit]

Oxford!

[baronzeus]

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Stanford, and it's not close.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure there's a 50/100 NL Pro that goes here too.

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Wtf you go to Stanford?

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Yeah, and I'm really curious as to who the 50/100 NL pro is around here.

[odellthurman]

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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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What is financial freedom?

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Other than Richard Nixon, what controversal things ever came out of waspy-rich Duke (other than having the gall to post in the wrong forum [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img])?