OT: Professional Gaming

Whisper · #1 08-11-2006, 11:04 PM

Im really bored so I decided to start an OT thread! Is anyone here a professional video game player? Any game, computer or consol. I personally played warcraft3 for 2 years and played lots of tournaments and traveled. My handle before i left was rS.Whipser. I manage to net a whopping 1k from my 2 years of work [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (+ random shirts / mousepands and computer junk)

I would really like to know any fellow video game enthusiasts, not nerds, as I call them. Please include game, handle, and experiences.

cakewalk · #2 08-11-2006, 11:05 PM

i had the opportunity to play halo2 professionally but pursued poker instead.

SC:BW i beat a few pro's on a user-created map that tested micro-management skills, other than that i was pretty bad at the game.

SlackerMcFly · #3 08-11-2006, 11:26 PM

I made thousands running an arcade. $.25 per pop adds up when hundreds of folks are playing Pac-Man, Asteroids, DonkeyKong, pin-ball and foosball on a daily basis.

Took a few hundo here and there from FoosFoolios who were sadly mistaken in their assessment of my hand/eye coordination.

Does that count?

Mc80's

Sykes · #4 08-11-2006, 11:31 PM

I made a semi-living basically being a dealer of Magic:the Gathering cards.

Poker however, has far more money in it.

King Car · #5 08-12-2006, 12:07 AM

I played Tetris professionally for three years. After a nasty down swing, I switched to NLHE STTs in hopes of reducing variance

mike28 · #6 08-12-2006, 12:12 AM

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i had the opportunity to play halo2 professionally but pursued poker instead.

SC:BW i beat a few pro's on a user-created map that tested micro-management skills, other than that i was pretty bad at the game.

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What was your tag?

I live by some old h1 pros and turned down some sponsorships for h2 to also focus on poker.

cakewalk · #7 08-12-2006, 12:22 AM

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i had the opportunity to play halo2 professionally but pursued poker instead.

SC:BW i beat a few pro's on a user-created map that tested micro-management skills, other than that i was pretty bad at the game.

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What was your tag?

I live by some old h1 pros and turned down some sponsorships for h2 to also focus on poker.

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ben carroll

mike28 · #8 08-12-2006, 12:26 AM

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i had the opportunity to play halo2 professionally but pursued poker instead.

SC:BW i beat a few pro's on a user-created map that tested micro-management skills, other than that i was pretty bad at the game.

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What was your tag?

I live by some old h1 pros and turned down some sponsorships for h2 to also focus on poker.

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ben carroll

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i assume that's your real name?

i was talking bout your mlg/xbl tag

cakewalk · #9 08-12-2006, 12:27 AM

i was never on mlg, never wanted to put the time. that was my xbl tag, lol.

bluefeet · #10 08-12-2006, 12:37 AM

There is such a thing as a professional gamer? Man...I'm getting old.

I'll play any of you young punks in either...

or...

(after a little warm-up of course [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img])