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Guess I'll chime in.

I'm 34, and I live in Orlando Fl, been here for about 20 years and I love it. I'm an ex-entrepeneur, I sold my last business about 7 years ago. For the last 3 years I've been playing poker professionally, for better or worse. I've got a girlfriend who I've been with for a little over a year, strange relationship, as she's a muslim and I'm agnostic.

Politically I'm a die hard libertarian. I'm very pro choice, pro legalization of soft drugs, hell, I believe hard drugs should be given out free in large quantities for those that choose to kill themselves. Just don't steal my TV. I believe in much less government spending and involvement. Oh, and I love guns.

As for my poker career, my best tourney win has been a 100k guaranteed, with some close finishes. I tend to play 30/60 limit, a bit higher or lower depending on my BR.

As for how I spend my time, I love traveling, eating out, drinking way too much, reading a ton, watching far too much TV, and of course reading 2+2.

As for drugs, used to do alot of weed, X, acid, shrooms. Haven't done any of em for quite a long time, except weed, which reminded me why I can't smoke it anymore. I was like Woody Allen on acid, neurotic as hell, then I started puking like a 15yr old girl on winecoolers. That sealed it for me, I'm drug free now heh [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

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I'm in Orlando too. I moved here last year from San Francisco when Disney recruited me to train animals for one of their shows. After a year working for the mouse, I quit and became a HS Biology Teacher in January of this year. Right now I'm enjoying my summer off, trying to hack just as a poker player.. I still work part time training animals for Disney.

I'm 27 (28 in July) and graduated from UC-Berkeley in 2001 and started working in the zoo industry right away. I started playing poker about 2 years ago and won a 2005 WSOP main event seat through Gaming Club. I made it to the end of the first day (about 12 hours of poker). I survived as long as I could, but losing with AA twice and KK once didn't give me much breathing room.

Poker sucks in Florida. The largest cash games available in casinos are 1\2 or straight 2. I play mostly online now, but there are local bar tournaments that lead into a big tournament for a WPT buyin. I took 3rd overall in the first Orlando finals in February and won a $300 buyin to a Suncruz gaming cruise tournament.