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Especially close to my heart -- the Penn Poker Club at the University of Pennsylvania, of which I was a founding member, drew 175 attendees for a free-entry hold'em tournament! The structure (which should guarantee legality in most U.S. states) could be used as a model for other schools:
PokerRoom.com, an online forum to learn and play poker, provided the Penn Poker Club with $2,000 in cash prizes and 150 decks of cards detailed with the PokerRoom.com logo.LinkDespite the lack of an entrance fee, a $3 donation to the Chess in Philadelphia Schools Initiative was suggested by Graeffe, president of the Penn Chess Club.
The very first Penn Poker Championship was an unofficial event, held in a fraternity house in 1996. It consisted of four tournaments; I won one of them :)
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Posted by: Allison Trump on December 22, 2005 03:43 AMHello - I am a professor of Communication at DeSales University doing research about poker playing on college campuses. I am asking college poker players who play at least once a week to take a 5 minute survey. Below is the survey, please email me your responses. Also, feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
Thanks for your time,
AJ Moore
Thank you for taking part in this brief survey which attempts to look at how popular poker has become on college campuses. You are taking this survey because you consider yourself to be a consistent poker player. That is someone who on averages plays poker, either in person or online, at least once a week.
To respond to this survey, please send an email either from your own account to me at aaron.moore@desales.edu or to that same address from the following Yahoo Account: surveypoker@yahoo.com – PASSWORD: poker1. By using this prearranged email address, your identity will be kept anonymous. You can also send that message from surveypoker@yahoo.com – PASSWORD: poker1 to the same address as well.
To respond to this 21-question survey, please put the question number and the corresponding answer right next to it in the body of the message. For example: 1.) A, 2.) C, 3.) B, etc… For those questions that do not provide any specific options, please type your answer with a response that is as short or as long as you wish.
Once again thank you for your time and please feel free to contact me directly with any specific question you may have.
Aaron J. Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communications
DeSales University
2755 Station Avenue
Center Valley, PA 18034
(610) 282-1100 ext. 1303
aaron.moore@desales.edu
1. What is your gender?
(A) Male
(B) Female
2. How many years have you currently been enrolled in a college or university?
(A) 1 year
(B) 2 years
(C) 3 years
(D) 4 years
(E) More than 4 years
3. To the best of your knowledge, what is your overall Grade Point Average (G.P.A)?
(A) Less than a 2.0
(B) 2.0 to 2.5
(C) 2.5 to 3.0
(D) 3.0 to 3.5
(E) 3.5 to 4.0
4. What is your major?
5. On average, how much time outside of the classroom do you devote towards studying all of your various class subjects?
(A) 0-2 hours per week
(B) 3-5 hours per week
(C) 6-8 hours per week
(D) 9-11 hours per week
(E) 12 or more hours per week
6. What best describes how you most like to spend your free-time outside of the classroom or studying?
(A) Socializing with friends
(B) Playing poker
(C) Spending time with your boyfriend or girlfriend
(D) Spending time alone
(E) Participating in athletic events, arts or music
7.) How many of your close friends are also consistent poker players?
(A) None
(B) A couple of them (1 to 4 friends)
(C) Some (5 to 8 friends)
(D) Most (more than 8 close friends)
(E) All the people I consider close friends play poker
8. How long have you been playing poker?
(A) Less than a year
(B) Between 1 and 2 years
(C) Between 3 and 4 fours
(D) Between 5 and 6 years
(E) 7 or more years
9. How much time per week do you devote towards playing poker – this includes live home games, in casinos or online?
(A) 0-2 hours per week
(B) 3-5 hours per week
(C) 6-8 hours per week
(D) 9-11 hours per week
(E) 12 or more hours per week
10. Have you ever read a book about poker?
If so, how many?
(A) 0 books
(B) 1-3 books
(C) 4-6 books
(D) 7-8 books
(E) 9 or more
11. Which ones do you consider to be the best poker books?
12. Do you subscribe/read to any poker or card magazines?
If so, how many?
13. Please rate how often you watch poker games on television?
(A) Never, I have no interest in televised games
(B) Rarely, if nothing else on television is interesting to me, I will watch poker
(C) Occasionally, if I happen to stumble across a program when channel surfing
(D) Consistently, there is at least one poker program I set time aside to view
(E) Always, anytime there is poker on television I will watch it
14. On average how many hours per week do you devote to watching television in general?
(A) Never, I do not watch television
(B) Rarely, 1 to 4 hours per week
(C) Occasionally, around 5 to 8 hours per week
(D) Consistently, 9 to 14 hours per week
(A) Always, more than 15 hours per week
15. On average, besides school related work, how much time free-time do you spend surfing the Internet?
A) 0-2 hours per week
(B) 3-5 hours per week
(C) 6-8 hours per week
(D) 9-11 hours per week
(E) 12 or more hours per week
16. Do you participate in/read online poker forums?
(A) Never
(B) Rarely, on average less than an hour a week
(C) Occasionally, more than 2 hours per week
(D) Consistently, about 3 to five hours a week
(E) Always, more than 6 hours per week
17. Do you see poker as more of a….
(A) Social Outlet
(B) Financial Outlet
(C) A combination of both
(D) Neither
(E) Unsure
18. Do you play at in-opportune times when you should be doing a task with a higher priority (i.e. studying, working, sleeping, etc.)?
(A) Always
(B) Often
(C) Sometimes
(D) Rarely
(E) Never
19. Do you think the life of a professional poker player is one you would like to emulate?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) Possibly
(D) Unsure
(E) Never thought about it
20. If you had the means to become a professional poker player, would you do it?
(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) Possibly
(D) Unsure
(E) Never thought about it
21. What has been the biggest influence on you becoming a poker player?
Once again, thank you for your participation