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 Originally Posted by RCB
Would you have pursued hockey as a career if you hadn't chosen to be a professional poker player instead? If so, would you have tried to play or would you have gone into coaching?
What aspects of training for/playing hockey have helped you as a poker player, if any?
This might sound stupid, but which is more physically grueling, the WSOP ME or playing a game of hockey?
I read somewhere that you became a poker player because there was a hiccup of sorts with your payment for a semester of college. Is that true? Did you ever get your degree? What did you study?
It's more like I got into poker because the hockey career wasn't going to work out. It started out with me being a really fat kid and not starting early enough in life to realistically expect to be a pro hockey player. If I did it I would be a player and eventually a coach. I still plan on coaching one day (my kids' teams!) and now I get to use poker as my competitive outlet.
The WSOP ME is more grueling because it's a week (when ur really lucky). I have to admit that, hour-for-hour, hockey is a little more grueling. haha I was really shocked when I started playing for a living how grueling live tournaments are and actually mocked what they said on ESPN about how exhausting it can be until I started doing it though. Thinking about every aspect of every hand all day long is a mentally draining task.
Yes, that's true. I turned 21 in the first of my 2 senior years, one for each major, Business Management and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. I spent the whole break in AC and when I got back to school I found out that they were missing a signature on my student loan paperwork and were sending snail mail to my parents' house but never bothered to call my cell, so I was signed out of all of my classes. My semester off is now going on eight years.
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