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wilddamon New Zealand. May 17 2008 19:32. Posts 158

I made rather a rushed blog post last night and Pav left me a rather long comment about how I don't have my priorities right.

I believe the comment in my blog he took offense to was "I told you I'd be playing poker instead of studying for my tests"

This was a rather flippant comment and also somewhat untrue, as I had spent the day studying at university before playing poker. The tests begin in 2 weeks time.

I'd also like to point out that I am a full time student studying my third year of electrical engineering, which is certainly not the easiest subject in the world. Without discipline, I doubt I'd have made it this far through my degree already. I certainly do not believe poker is the only option to succeed in life, I find such beliefs laughable.

I'd like to mention the results I got for my last year of study, which put me in the top 15% of all students at my university. I don't wish to brag, but I feel these statistics illustrate my point more clearly than a simple explanation.

These were all full year courses:
Calculus and Algebra: A
Engineering Statistics: A+
Circuits and Systems: B+
Principles of Electronics: B+
Electrical Systems: A
Computers and Modeling: A-
Design and Management: Pass (this course had only a pass/fail grade.)

Poker is, for some reason, the game of leisure among my classmates, and we often get together for a friendly game on Saturday nights. Many of my classmates also use PokerStars, and/or have joined the club "PokerSoc". The amount of poker I actually play is fairly small compared to others on this site. I may have played at most 60k hands in my lifetime on PokerStars. This may answer domyouji and Exhilarate's questions as to why I have so few FPPs. I didn't play many hands and got very lucky!

On a rather lighter matter, I recently found out that two of the people in my class are my cousins. What are the chances?

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Last edit: 17/05/2008 19:38

TheTrees United States. May 17 2008 20:01. Posts 1592

sick brag?

wilddamon New Zealand. May 17 2008 20:24. Posts 158

obv

mrpav.com Canada. May 17 2008 23:08. Posts 3069

My mistake my friend, i just read that one blog post and i honestly thought you were from high school or something. I just always want ppl to go to school and do their best in life. I misunderstood, and i think its awesome that your doing well in your studies. Keep up the good work by the way, and much success and luck in school and poker. You'll turn that 1k into 10k in no time

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