Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:30 pm GMT by Cricket_Fire
From everyone's personal experiences, what's the poker like in colleges?
Lots of games? Few? Good players? Mostly bad? Buyins? What game? Tournament? Cash game?
I'm very curious lol
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Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:51 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
The group of guys I used to play with at UC Davis, by and large, were very good players. Most of the games I played with them were among the toughest I've ever played, but they were still fun. I found that my usual LAG tactics were being overrun and that I simply wasn't strong enough to beat them that way, so I had to revert to a TAG style to beat the NL games (and I only did so marginally until we expanded our base of players). We also used to a play a mixed rotational game, though, which I consistently beat, although it was still much tougher than anything I've seen online or in a casino.
It's not a hard and fast rule, but the young, college-age players as a group are usually highly aggressive, educated on the game, and tough.
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:28 pm GMT by UrAteUp
Back when I was in college the poker games were good. Plenty of them and plenty of action but I always hung with people who liked those sorts of things. We even once had a poker game on the radio station at the local college...BTW this was the same college that 2004 WSOP ME winner Greg Raymer graduated from.... 
I imagine with the upswing on poker in this country and around the world, games would be more frequent and more players.
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:30 pm GMT by MasterMike
I got a question, obviously many college kids are strapped for cash although there are exceptions, are there a wide variety of low stake--higher stakes games going on? I suspect that there are just a lot of low stakes and then you got your big timers with high stakes, with not much in between.
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:25 pm GMT by Gunslinger
I doubt there is much poker action in college, I would imagine most of the students are too busy studying.
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:38 pm GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
| Gunslinger wrote: | I doubt there is much poker action in college, I would imagine most of the students are too busy studying.
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Oh yeah, I spent my day studying the great thinkers of our time:
Sklansky, Malmuth, Miller, Lederer, Harrington...
Oh wait, that wasn't what you meant?
Posted Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:06 pm GMT by Gettin_gone
/quoteSklansky, Malmuth, Miller, Lederer, Harrington.../quote
You forgot Helmuth 
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:10 am GMT by xDiamond_CutteRx
| Gettin_gone wrote: | | You forgot Helmuth |
I said THINKERS. Not whiners.
Posted Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:34 am GMT by tame_deuces
Can only speak for my experience in Norway. Around here it is very varied games amongst students, some play nickle&dime and some are used to extremely high stakes.
I think the quality of play is generally bad even w/ quite experienced players.
Posted Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:21 am GMT by kao85
well my school there's a game if you want to find one or make one, but it's almost always low stakes/ buy-ins, I mostly play weekly with friends for 5 to 10 bucks and I think that's what most do with an occasional larger game where it's tell all your friends and bring 20 bucks for a tourney
but alas we are mostly poor college students...freshmen year we played for a couple dollar buyin I guess we're moving up in the world! 
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