I actually am. I bought a 3k TV on Thursday and a 1k Bose sound system. My bar tab on Sunday was like $500. Not bragging, just saying I can slang that paper around.

I don't think I would necessarily be happier in the situation you described. I am free to do whatever I want right now and am very happy.

what is your dream car?

what is your next big purchase going to be?

do you think you'd have an edge vs the following people in HU NL 100-200bb cash

Negreanu
Moneymaker
Ferguson
Harman
Townsend
Muddywater
Caby
AdrianXX20
Gobboboy

Not really, it was a donkish play from him.

Ferarri

A car, not sure which one. I am going to save for the Porsche but I don't really want a Porche. They told me that there would be a new car in the stars store by the end of the year.

This is assuming online:

Negreanu - I think this would be close.
Moneymaker - Yes
Ferguson - Close, but I think I have edge here.
Harman - Yes
Townsend - No
Muddywater - No
Caby - No
AdrianXX20 - Well I lost 2 BIs to him the last time we played, that was only for an hour though. I made a few terrible plays vs him which is why he won but I'd definately have edge here.
Gobboboy - Not sure, no clue about his game.

Donkish? I think you're missing the point here.

You would never fold AA or QQ there. May be it is a good play if you also have JJ, which is the only hand that you might fold.

JJ = AA here......

No, JJ you chop with him. AA you take it down.

Exactly. I didn't know anything about him at the time. I wouldn't have called him w/o the king, I can tell you that much.

Both hands are bluff catchers vs his shoving range. DUCY?

EDIT: Can we not turn this into a strat thread? The whole point was that TE asked about influential hands. In that hand I saw someone turn a hand that was very high in his range into a bluff. It got me thinking about what Muk said, where AA = JJ or whatever.

how did you go from being a lazy bum to the machine you are now?

actualy if you have jj, its less likely that he has it and is turning it into a bluff so you can expect to win a higher % of the time if you hold AA and call which means AA > JJ noobs.

Back to the WEll!....;

^^^

Zep, you're amazing. I'll now be inspired for a few days before I waste time and become a bum again.

I basically stopped doing a lot of stuff that was bad for me. I used to be a really unhealthy individual in college. I was always a good student but started getting f_cked up all the time in high school. This kind of snowballed and by the time I was in college I was in bad shape.

Like, it had really negative effects on my life. I would go weeks without going to a single class. I would show up to a class and realize I had missed a midterm. I probably missed more quizzes than I actually took. I had a good friend of mine see me at a final exam once and say, "I didn't know you were in this class." I'd was like, "I've never been here." I was just a mess most of the time.

But things really started to change for me about 2007. I had cleaned my act up for the most part but still wasn't very productive. I mean, I was making some decent scrilla at poker, like a couple hundred bucks a week, but I decided I was going to take the GMAT just to see whether I could get into a good grad school, knowing I would have free tuition if I got in. I decided that if I did well and could get into University of Chicago that I would go. However, I knew this wouldn't be likely because my undergrad grades sucked. However, I was pretty sure I could crush the GMAT. So I studied for like a month and got a 760, which is above the 99th percentile. At this point I was pretty sure I could get into any school in the country.

Once I started grad school, I was really focussed on doing well. Like, I wanted to be there and wanted to learn. After all, I was sacrificing my time to be there. Subsequently, I cut back from drinking like 3-4 times per week to like 1 tops. I just couldn't afford to be hungover or drunk as much any more. When this happened, I started playing more poker and realized that I could make SNE if I busted my ass the next year.

That's kind of how I got here. The hardest part was getting used to not sleeping as much. I don't really mind at all any more.

How come you were taking GMAT instead of GRE? Were you thinking about doing MBA?

Yeah, I was really only considering getting my MBA. It is extremely flexible at UofC though.

Right now I wish that I were getting my masters in computer science. But I might do this when I finish at UofC. I don't see myself stopping this madness any time soon.

ZepHendrix,

How do you feel that you can pay attention to the well so closely SOLAMENTE because you are at work?

curious about your MBA program

did you work for a a little bit before you started or did you jump right into it after college?

how much work is it?

what kind of classes are you taking

a lot of MILFs in your classes?

would you recommend for it someone like me who just graduated and has no clue wtf they want to do with their life

Like I said, my job is awesome. All I really did today was post in this thread.

How much money (or other compensation) would you have to be paid to fly from the USA to Canada with a small amount of cocaine, say 1-2 oz, on you? You could put it in your checked luggage.

Yeah, I worked for about 2 years before I got into this school. They say that you are supposed to have a minimum three years experience before you get in. However, my job is good and with my GMAT I decided to apply with just two, figuring I would get in anyways. I am definately pretty young for that program though.

It's a ton of work. Actually, last quarter I kind of started to blow off my classes again (the mondo grind started taking its toll on me), and I kind of blew off the whole quarter which is why I took the last quarter off. I needed to recooperate and relax a little (By working 80 hours / week instead of 100+), lol.

I'm taking my prerequisites right now. I have taken a few of the financial classes for a base but I haven't gotten into the hardcore analytic finance stuff yet. That will be way harder I'm told.

There are not many good looking chicks in that school, not at all. I don't think I've seen any MILFs. There might be a few that I would convince myself to bang if I were drunk tho.

No, I wouldn't. I think you really have to be motivated to pursue grad school. From personal experience, I think that would be hard to do without some idea of what you want to do with your life. Plus, grad school will be so much more effective / worthwhile if you are building off a foundation that you have acquired in the real world. Reading and discussing the topics you will find in grad school are just more effective if you have real world experience imo.

Everyone has a price, but I am not sure this would be worth it. I would want like $100 million probably. There isn't enough money you could pay me at this point of my life to risk going to jail.

which reg are you most excited about calling your raises from the blinds? what about least excited to call you pre in position?

great well

Are you planning on going for SNE again next year?

If you could travel to anywhere in the world, where would it be?

did/do you cut down on tables when moving up to a new stake? if so how many do you start off with?

do you think playing so many tables reduces your growth as a poker player?