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i don't understand it when people imply that it's harder to have a social life playing poker than working a real job.

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i'm planning to do the poker thing for a while after graduation

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yeah. it's a lot different when you don't have an enforced structure to your life. it's easy to theorise about still keeping a normal healthy well adjusted couple of hrs of poker/voluntarily structure the rest of your day in a healthy way even though you don't have to type deal, but in reality after months on end of setting your own hours and being able to do whatever you damn well feel like, and usually pulling in truly sick amounts of money in the process because you don't have to focus on other things as much, things change a bit.

i exercise a lot play in band have gf etc, but it's still hard to keep a normal existence, especially because even if you have a lot of spare time, other people usually don't - they can only socialise during certain days/hours of the week, in which time you could be in any sort of mindset because your life is so open-ended. so even when you do see people, maybe they are exhausted from a hard day of work whereas you've just woken up from losing $5000 the night before. this is why i'm in the stay in school camp even though i didn't myself.

i mean, if you can keep a normal sleeping pattern and set your life to a rough schedule even after playing for a living for 6 months or a year then that's awesome, but it can be tough.