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OK. I really don't know how I want to include this in my application, if at all. During college, I played online pokers about 4 tables (100NL) at a time and it was an amazing learning experience for me. I read lots of books, recorded all my earnings on a poker tracking program, and I really invested lots of time into it (at the expense of my grades). I learned about expected value, leverage, how to opponents on a range of hands, risk and reward, self-control, amongst other things. I was a winning player and although I didn't play big stakes, I played lots of hands spread over multiple tables and made enough money to pay for rent and supplement my living expenses.
Personally, I think it ties into my desire to become a doctor because what drew me to the game was the ability for me to learn something and apply it to something and see results. Having been in school all the time up to that point, I became jaded at gaining all that knowledge and not really having the avenue to apply it. I like to solve problems and apply theoretical knowledge to real life situations... and seeing that theoretical knowledge pay off provides me with a large sense of gratification. I want to go to med school because I will finally in my life learn things I can apply in real life problem solving situations. I stopped playing because I came to realize that although I would do it for the rest of my life if I could, I'd rather not have a game be a source of my living and having to be tied to the politics and volatile legality of online gambling.
But I digress. I think people's reactions to me playing poker will be a negative one. I always hear "But, how much did you lose" and to be frank, it is gambling and it is a game. Should I even bother putting it on my app? If so, how should I list it?
Thanks.
Personally, I think it ties into my desire to become a doctor because what drew me to the game was the ability for me to learn something and apply it to something and see results. Having been in school all the time up to that point, I became jaded at gaining all that knowledge and not really having the avenue to apply it. I like to solve problems and apply theoretical knowledge to real life situations... and seeing that theoretical knowledge pay off provides me with a large sense of gratification. I want to go to med school because I will finally in my life learn things I can apply in real life problem solving situations. I stopped playing because I came to realize that although I would do it for the rest of my life if I could, I'd rather not have a game be a source of my living and having to be tied to the politics and volatile legality of online gambling.
But I digress. I think people's reactions to me playing poker will be a negative one. I always hear "But, how much did you lose" and to be frank, it is gambling and it is a game. Should I even bother putting it on my app? If so, how should I list it?
Thanks.