[Phat Mack]

How old are you?
60

Birthday?
Yes, 60 years ago.

Where do you live?
I live south of the Cedar Park Metroplex in the People's Republic of Texas.

Are you married?
One wife, who deals poker. No kids.

Occupation besides poker?
When in Vegas I sub as a dancing bartender at Centrifuge.
Occasionally I'll work a promising corner with my sign: "Not Broke, Not Homeless, Need Money for Buy-in. (I'm a g00t player, really!)"

If studying (or if graduated), what and where?
That was a long time ago. Studied math and asian studies.

Favorite movie?
Too many to pick out just one. Depends on the mood. Of the old B&Ws, I like anything with Fred Astaire, and a lot of the noir stuff, esp Big Sleep and Maltese Falcon.
Of modern stuff I like the comedies that didn't quite make it. Repo Man; Tape Heads; Big Lebowski; Fight Club. The last two did develop some fans after their original release.

Any Kurosawa flick.

Music?
The usual stuff: Deck Chairs Overboard; New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra; Mrs. Ackroyd's Band; Pre-Let it Bleed Stones.

Best poker acomplishment? How long been playing?
Feel free to add any other information or pictures about yourself you want to share.

I've been playing since I was 10.

I once took $1300 out of a nickle-(and I mean$.05)ante, $.05-1.00 spread limit 5stud game in the 60's. I tell people that was my biggest win.

In the early 80's, I'm guessing 1983, I was lying in bed reading an article in Scientific American about how computer geeks were changing the face of mathematics by solving problems with something called monte carlo simulations. I bolted upright. Holy [censored]! I could use them to answer poker questions I had been asking all my playing life. A few days later I had my TI 99 cranking out triple-draw lowball hands.

What I love about poker is that there is always something to think about. A lot of those Holy [censored]! moments, where I say to myself, "That's how it works!"