How old are you? Where do you live?

[mscags]

Andy,
They don't use those same $10 chips from your pic anymore do they? I thought they were darker when I was there.

[Andy B]

Canterbury had $10 commemorative chips made for their grand opening in June of 2000 (they had a "soft" opening in April of that year). I don't know if they had a lot of those leftover or ordered more or what, but when the largest limit went from $15/30 to $30/60 in August 2001, they used those commemorative chips. I had lost most of my money that night and was drinking the rest when they converted a $15/30 game to $30/60 around midnight of whatever the magic day was, so I witnessed the first $30/60 game at Canterbury. There was a problem because the yellow $2 chips blended in too well with the $10 chips, which are also yellowish, so they quickly removed the $2 chips from that game and only used $1 and $5 chips when making change for the rake. The commemorative chips were a different style from other CP chips and were slightly thinner. Recently there were concerns that someone might put 21 chips in a row in a rack as the chips wore down, so they switched to the brown $10 chips last summer, I think. Irony of ironies, the surveillance folks can't distinguish between the brown $10 chips and the red $5 chips, so they can only use $1 and $2 chips to make change in the $30/60 game. Perhaps some day someone will get the bright idea to make that a time-charge game.

[mscags]

Did you win the 6500 back when the game was amazing? 120+BBs is freakin unreal

[Andy B]

It was perhaps the best line-up ever and I got hit in the face with the deck. I scooped a $3k+ pot and won about $5k in the space of three hours. At my peak I was up $7300. I was dead broke at the time and playing another guy's money.

[Mac]

Good thread, a long time comin'

How old are you? 29

Where do you live? New Jersey

Are you married? Girlfriend/Boyfriend? Been dating a good woman for about a year and a half (she doesn't bitch at all when I jump out of bed to fire up the Party Poker), no kids

Occupation besides poker? like everybody else on the stud board, a software engineer (until the inevitable outsourcing)

If studying (or if graduated), what and where? BS - majored in Computer Science, minored in Math, was doing the Masters part time but stopped halfway through. I couldn't take any more tests.

Favorite movie? Music? Shawshank, Swingers, Office Space

Best poker acomplishment? How long been playing? Playing for 8 years (but not very seriously). I go through pockets of months where I play intensely and read the books, then I'll take 4 months off inexplicably and spend my time doing something else. Best poker accomplishment is winning 6 Single table tournaments in a row, not much but somethin'.

Feel free to add any other information or pictures about yourself you want to share.

Three friends and I left work several years back to start a business in Beirut, Lebanon. I was there for over a year and it failed spectacularly, but the food and women were well worth the hit to my bankroll and for the first time, I was excited about my work. Definitely my best year.

- Mac

[mscags]

That's awesome, you must have been on top of the world after that night, did you do anything fun to celebrate?

[Mac]

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I'm getting an apartment with two good looking ladies (not the twins) for the fall semester.


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Andy, c'mon, you've got the mod power, I think mscags status should be "Jack Tripper"

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I'm going to study abroad in Spain during Spring 07 with one of the girls I'm living with


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this is gonna be an awesome semester, good luck. I spent several weeks in Spain couple years back (Barcelona is the spot, man, I can see myself retiring there)

- Mac

[Andy B]

Paid a couple of outstanding debts.

I was married at the time, so I never did anything fun.

[Gelford]

I recently turned 33 and live in Copenhagen, Denmark


I have an BS in Economics


I have slaved away for selling realestate morgages and banking for the last three years and a couple weeks ago’s I simply had enough, so technically I am now gone Pro .. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I have a girlfriend, no kids (yet)

I have played guitar since I was I child .. never really got good at it, but can fake a good Hendrix or Knopfler .. I can’t fake a Wes Montgomery or Pat Metheny though.
All this favorite movie, book or musicstuff is hard to pinpoint, I enjoy a lot of things and many of them are very diverse

I have also played chess forever .. and though not as good as Preiserone, but I too can be found on the FIDE ratinglist as well. (My style of playing chess reflects pretty much in my style of poker not surpricingly .. the KID and Dragon being what I always returned to .. )


My greatest pokermoments ?
Well there are a couple I guess .. The first is Donking my way into a MTT win ahead of 250 others winning 800$ after playing poker for two weeks (and for a while there I thought I could play poker .. LOL)

The second comes a half year later where I won a MTT without the Donk and spendt the money on a long weekend in Berlin with my girlfriend


But I have always been easy on life just taking every day as it comes and enjoying it


Oh .. and as a last comment .... I been reading a lot of pokerblogs lately, and I have to agree with Felicia, If you don’t have anything on your mind, then don’t write .. reading about results is the most boring thing I can think of

[Pokeraddict]

How old are you?
32

Where do you live?
Atlanta

Are you married? Girlfriend/Boyfriend? Children?
Married with a 6 year old and pregnant wife

Occupation besides poker?
I own the original rakeback directory (not going to spam the link but I'm sure that gives enough of a hint)

If studying (or if graduated), what and where?
No college at all

Favorite movie? Music?
I like 80's alternative and goth.

Best poker acomplishment? How long been playing?
I came in 14th in the 2005 1k Stud8 WSOP. It is the only WSOP event I ever played. I've been playing poker for 16 years and online for 2 1/2