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at the same time if you're not looking into the top finance jobs, then forget everything i've said and omit poker on your resume.

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what do you consider a worthwhile non "top finance" internships?

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Obviously something that he's seen in a movie somewhere.

I don't know thing one about finance. I'll admit that. Maybe it is a completely different corporate culture than engineering (which is what I am familiar with). But I honestly don't see how putting poker on your resume is going to help you. Sure, maybe some random mid-level guy is looking for a really aggressive, ambitious college grad. Maybe he'd be impressed. But I think it would be a hell of a lot more effective to bring this up during the interview process than it would be actually on your resume.

Is it going to grab some peoples' attention? Sure... so will listing "bum" as your previous experience, or putting your six month religious "sabbatical" on there to the Red Light District. Just because it stands out doesn't mean that it's going to help you get noticed in a good way. Some people may be interested, and want to get to know you better. Others aren't going to be, and will toss it right in the trash.

Rather than just blindly advertise this to everyone who might look at your resume, I'd hope that you were good enough at reading people that you could pick and choose which people you should bring this subject up with. You can still find +EV spots to discuss this, I'm sure there will be some people who are impressed. But why walk around telling EVERYONE that you were a poker player. I think we all know that not everyone is going to approve.

Who knows, maybe the guy at the job fair will be impressed, but what about his boss (the guy who's going to be looking at his resume next)? If you had just brought it up in casual conversation, you still would have gotten the attention, but now you wouldn't have to explain yourself to crazy-bible-thumper-VP who now has ahold of your resume and is wondering why some degenerate heathen is interviewing for his company.

Unless you want everyone in the company to know (which is very doubtful), I'd limit this to a need-to-know basis, or at the very least a casual conversation with the couple of people who it might impress.