Here is a bizarre little story that you may or may not find interesting (totally unrelated to MMA but relative to a poster ITT).
About 5 days ago I posted in this thread stating that I'd been lurking it and really enjoyed the interesting opinions share by the regs here. I also said that SwoopAE's predictions for the last ufc were amazing and I was looking forward to his predictions (preminitions perhaps would be more appropriate) for ufc 148.
Skip to tonight I'm playing a gig at my sisters' restaurant. I get to talking to a girl who works there (we've chatted a bit previously) and she asks why I have so much spare time to be doing gigs at the restaurant so often. I reluctantly told her I was a professional poker player and she swiftly replies 'my brother does that'.
As always, I rolled my eyes. But for some reason, instead of dismissing it or vaguely asking 'what exactly he does', I asked what his screenname was.
To my absolute disbelief the reply was 'SwoopAE'. I stood completely in shock and explained to her about this thread. I'm still a little in shock as in my 3 years as a pro player I've only met 1 legitimate poker pro by coincidence.
Hope you enjoyed and I'm not even watching the UFC on FX this week (first one I've missed since I started watching UFC: Penn vs. Sherk) as I don't know any of the fighters