[Alchemist]

Age: 32
Where: Grew up near Pittsburgh (go Stillers!), currently living in Cincinnati.
Family/Education: Got my MS in Chemistry (go figure) in '98 at Wright State Univ. where I met my wife, also a chemistry grad student. I'm currently employed in the pharmaceutical industry as a synthetic organic chemist for 6 years. We've been married 7 years and had our ceremony at the Ohio Renaissance Festival.

No kids, don't want any.

We have two greyhounds, who make wonderful pets. That's Kelli in the picture wearing Mardi Gras beads. People think greyhounds are hyper/aggressive and nothing could be further from the truth. They are lazy/low maintenance dogs which is exactly what we wanted in a pet. I highly recommend them and adopting a greyhound is doing a great thing in itself.

Music: I like pretty heavy stuff. Megadeth, White Zombie, Static-X, etc. I really got into German groups Rammstein and Megaherz a few years ago cause I loved the sound and singing along in German is fun [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. Rammstein's Der Meister = teh best song evar.

Greatest poker accomplishment: Qualifying (narrowly) for last year's WCOOP $530 Omaha/8 event via satellites.

How I got there: finished in the top 17/177 of a 90FPP satellite which got me to the super sat. There the top 9 of 332 qualified for the WCOOP event. How narrow was my win? 5 hours into the tourney we're on the bubble with 10 players left on two tables. A guy on the other table miraculously busts out when I have the big blind next hand. I had 3318 left in my stack and blinds were 6000/12000. I finished with only 1818 more chips than I started with! Average stack of the other four at my table was over 63000.
So what happened in the big tourney? The ending is rather anti-climactic. After much deliberation, I decided to sell my seat for $480 to lock up the sure thing. A good choice too as only 63/735 (8.5%) made the money (wtf?).