Why do you play poker?

For the money obv.

But besides this, why do you play it? Unless you are banking 15k+ a month.
Just interested in random motivations.

For me it's because I'm a student and poker basicly my only source of income, at this time I have to.
Wages earned in parttime jobs for a student are just stupid.
In the future I do see myself working for a random company, unless i manage to make 12k+ on average or so, but even then I wouldn't play it forever.

But maybe some of you have a total different opinion on the matter, so i'm interested in reading these.

For your reason exactly.

Also it's also baller to say, I won a few grand last night from a tourney. Funny how I worked a part time job at subway this year, made $2k from it. Then I ended up winning a tourney for $2.5k.

same reason I played starcraft competitively

I love to own +_+

Also the people I've met thru poker are pretty damn awesome and nobody is like dumb... almost everybody is smart (don't mean to sound like a douche, it's just that stupid people are kinda less interesting to talk to lol)

oh and I make more money than I thought I'd ever make

$...........

No other reason.

money/travel/meet smart people/own donks/ no schedule/free time whenever

Cause checkers got boring.

$ because im too anti-social to get a real job and its easy just to be lazy and play poker rather than work hard for a real job

currently, because it is the best challenge for my stoicism... nothing else

Easy part-time money for me to help me grow my business. I don't enjoy playing with a proffessional's mindset anymore. I hate it frankly.

edit: even fun drunken homegames are wrecked now, because I can't just 'hope' for cards and enjoy gambling - I'm just making the best long-term decisions I can.

Foe tha luv of money

On July 23 2010 15:14 lostaccount wrote: money/travel/meet smart people/own donks/ no schedule/free time whenever

seems nice

I get *some* mental stimulation from playing, like playing a video game. Video games are far more satisfying for me though, although that might just be b/c im pretty good at games and not so much at poker. But a good 80% of my drive just comes from the financial prospect. I want to sleep in every day, go on vacation whenever I feel like for as long as I feel like, and have enough of a money umbrella over my head to account for any bad beats in life, like economy tanking, unemployment, inflation etc etc.

Although I do alright as it is now, and people always live within their means, so I have a feeling even if I became a millionaire I'd probably still find ways to stress out over bills after upgrading my lifestyle.

chemical engineering sucks cock and my school didn't offer evolutionary biology as a major...otherwise i'd have double majored in evo biology and psychology and prob have never met the ppl who got me into poker in the first place

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To punish gamblers!

On July 23 2010 16:00 sChOuA wrote: Actually i play it because i like the game, i don't need the money for living because i got other income.

yes and banking 25k a month isnt bad besides the job huh?

I'm not really intrested in pursuing anything in college, I don't wanna have to work at a shitty job, poker is all I got to make something of myself

I like the idea of being able to increase my hourly wage anytime I want by playing better / putting extra work into my game. I also don't want that normal life most people go for, I wanna eventually be able to travel, so poker's perfect for that!

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to make money so i can retire as young as possible