The story of Joe Cada (WSOP world champion) is much more than most aspiring poker professionals want to aspire to. There are many kids who drop out of school to follow his lead, but beware that this is an extremely perilous road.
I didn’t drop out of college to play online poker. I did poorly as I always do, the only reason I got into college was because I bent over the SATs like I do to TightWad on a nightly basis my freshman year. I have always done very ok in school, I refuse to do homework or study, and basically got through high school on good quiz and test grades.
Getting a college degree in physics, that simply wouldn’t work. Anyhow, after my poor performance freshman year, the University took away my scholarships and financial aid and my parents don’t really rake in the dough. Thus I was in a bit of a bind as to how to pay for my education, that I was basically not taking seriously anyway.
It sounds silly, but I’ve just never been able to apply myself to school. And now that the school wasn’t going to pay for me, and neither were my parents, I’d have to pay myself or get loans to pay for it. It’s hard to spend that much money on something that you don’t have your mind set on trying hard at.
My freshman year was at Tulane in New Orleans and I was much more worried about playing online poker, chasing women, drinking and pretty much doing anything other than attending that 8 AM Engineering Calculus class. I also understand that getting a higher education is not for everyone as well and it also doesn’t take going to college to get it.
If you are not attending classes do yourself a favor if you don’t already do so and pick up some good literature to read in your downtime. If you want some suggestions let me know and I can direct you to a lot of good books that I am sure you will find interesting. But in the meantime keep knocking them dead at the tables.
I just spent $811.95 on 2 home plate tickets to the last game of the Red Sox regular season. In all seriousness I am pumped to see them crush the Yankees right before the playoffs. The girl I am going with is a fan too and has never been to a Red Sox game.