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Once read an interesting story by a man from Perth.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79/edf/changing-your-life-787/

lol... well.. my life sin't THAT exiting.. but i think i could give him a run for his money

everyone from Aus cos we rock the kazbar

Yeah mate

RL First Name: Mike
Age: 24
Status: Sweet GF
Occupation: Poker Dealer
Location:Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): NY Rangers!
Random Fact: My brother is one of the best Guitar Hero and Rock Band players in the world.
DC member you wish you could meet: Threads13 naturally as he is my coach, but Krantz seems like a chill dude.

RL First Name: Andrej
Age: 32
Status: sweet GF
Occupation: Pokah
Location: Slovenia (not Slovakia)
Favorite Sport Team: Mt.Visnja's Racing Snails
Random Fact: No rain today, USD/EUR is 1.5, Loch Ness monster drowned, Godot finally arrived
DC member you wish you could meet: anyone from DC, who won't try to explain in details how an underdog fish sucked out on him yesterday
Preferred game: 6-Max NLHE

RL First Name: Mike
Age: 24
Status: Sweet GF

Damn Mike, we are dating the same girl ???

RL First Name: Larry
Age: Sweet Christ, am I really 43? Let's all pretend I'm younger.
Status: Long time GF.
Occupation: Screenwriter, part time college professor.
Favorite Team Sport: Yankees. Can't help it. Sports appeal to the stupidest, most base part of the lizard brain. They get you when you're young. Now I am stuck rooting for the oppressor.
Random Fact: I once directed a feature film which had, among other things, a very great deal of female nudity.
DC member you wish you could meet: any of the cool kids.

first name: Rob
age: 40 (suk it larry)
status: it it moves ill roger it
occupation: bankruptcy lawyer, golden colorado
favorite team sports: since I got into poker I dont watch much, I like action and cannot tolerate the commericals I used to watch football but find the commercials unbearable
random fact: cant win at poker
dc member you wish you could meat . DJ , like his teaching style

RL First Name: Luke
Age: 24
Status: Living /w girlfriend
Occupation: Non-profit management
Location: West Virginia
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Heaven help me, I'm a dedicated Bills fan (grew up 60 mins south of Buffalo, NY)
Random Fact: I've realized I'm an action junkie, which is why I love poker. Other things I do that are similar are : EMT, rock climbing, whitewater rafting. . . see the trend?
DC member you wish you could meet: BalugaWhate

RL First Name: Luke
Age: 24
Status: Living /w girlfriend
Occupation: Non-profit management
Location: West Virginia
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Heaven help me, I'm a dedicated Bills fan (grew up 60 mins south of Buffalo, NY)
Random Fact: I've realized I'm an action junkie, which is why I love poker. Other things I do that are similar are : EMT, rock climbing, whitewater rafting. . . see the trend?
DC member you wish you could meet: BalugaWhate

Around the Chautauqua area?

RL First Name: Jimmie
Age: 19
Status: Single
Occupation: Unemployed
Location: Emmaboda, Sweden (A snowy country without icebears)
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): I follow the swedish first division hockeyteam Nybro Vikings, love pizza, and got a dog which name is Chicko.
Random Fact: I was really tired this morning.
DC member you wish you could meet: WiltOnTilt

RL First Name: Jens
Age: 42
Status: Single
Occupation: "Kfz-Meister" and "Technischer Redakteur"
Location: Normally Regensburg/Germany but know Spain for one year
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): FC Bayern München, KTM
Random Fact: Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun
DC member you wish you could meet: BalugaWhale

Name: Christian
Age: 47
Status: Divorced
Occupation: DJ in a strip bar (seriously)
Location: Laval, Canada (near Montreal)
Love to: Travel to Cuba,smoke cuban cigars, play, read, eat and breathe poker
About poker: Been playing for 16 months but more seriously for 3 months. Found a good coach and now I am beginning to win more and more at NLHE 0.05/0.10 as long as the old me does not come back, i.e. S-T-U-P-I-D.
DC member you wish you could meet: My coach, ybother


P.S.: Nienie is the nickname I gave to my daughter Melanie when she was born and still call her that way 15 years later.

Name: Erick
Age: 33
Status: Single
Occupation: Graphic designer
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Love to: Play poker, Dota and starcraft.
About poker: Been playing srsly for about 6 months and currently playing NL50 on FTP
DC member you wish you could meet: All of them...especially krantz <3

RL First Name: Joey
Age: 32
Status: Married
Occupation: Legal Assistant
Location: Norfolk, VA
Favorite Sports Team: Los Angeles Lakers, and Washington Redskins tie
Random Fact:want to become the best poker player I can be
Love to:Go out to the series in vegas in 2010
About Poker:Been playin like 10 months seriously and really dedicating myself for 2010 to be the best I can be(sounds corny but if Im a losing player after truly puting in the effort Im at peace w/ that. At this point I cant say I have worked as hard as I am capable of.
DC member you wish you could meet: Joe Tall (cause my name is Joe and im
tall I wish I thought of that name 1st) and Baluga Whale

RL First Name: Thomas
Age: 22
Status: Engaged
Occupation: Non-profit hustler
Location: Pacific Northwest
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Call of Duty Modern warfare 2, and Halo!
Random Fact: I'm studying to become a Science teacher.
DC member you wish you could meet: Improva! Oh god Improva and DJ Sensei

RL First Name: Tim
Age: 21
Status: Heartbreakkid
Occupation: Student at Mizzou
Location: Missouri
Favorite (Sports Team = Cardinals, food = pizza and chili, place = any place with a beach and any place where I can snowboard)
Random Fact: Huge superman fan.
DC member you wish you could meet: Not sure. Any member who lives in/close to Missouri.

RL First Name: Phil
Age: Thirty ten. Oh damn it - 40.
Status: Married, 2 kids (9 and 5), mortgage, tedium and wallowing in my mid-life poker crisis.
Occupation: Killing time in Dilbert corporate hell until I can get home and play poker
Location: Darlington, UK
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Aston Villa; I'll eat anything but a good curry can't be beat; Chilling out on a Cornish beach. Combining all three not feasible!
Random Fact: I would leave my wife for Vicky Coren!
DC member you wish you could meet: How about a UK DC meet up???

RL First Name: Tarek

Age: 31

Status: Single

Occupation: Poker Player

Location: Germany (Malta as soon as possible)

Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here):

Sports Team: FC Bayern München, San Francisco 49ers

Place: Probably Glencoe, Scotland, but there are many beautiful places in this world.

Random Fact: That's me, and yes... it's real

DC member you wish you could meet: NoahSD (to pick his brain and because he sounds like getting hammered with him might be fun), Improva (pretty much for the same reasons), Tommy Angelo (to help me sober up meditating after a night in the bars with Noah and Oliver)

Random Fact: That's me, and yes... it's real

very slick.

I guess I should probably put some info up as well. Can't believe I haven't already.

RL First Name: Andy (Andrew to my parents)

Age: 21

Status: Single

Occupation: Student

Location: Leeds, UK

Favorite sports team: The mighty Everton FC (that's soccer to most of you).

Favourite place: Venice. It's beautiful.

Favourite food: A good old-fashioned cheeseburger, fries and a coke.

Favourite book: The Godfather.

Favourite film: Pulp Fiction.

Random Fact: I'm a huge fan of Tucker Max.

DC member you wish you could meet: BalugaWhale, Krantz, Ansky. And tubasteve, because I could talk to him all day about poker and economics (two of my main interests).

I just moved over from Cardrunners. So f'in happy to see iPhone video content <3 And the site looks great so far.

RL First Name: John
Age: 24
Status: Married
Occupation: Web App Designer/Developer
Location: Boston
Random Fact: Just started playing poker seriously this year.
DC member you wish you could meet: Don't know any yet.

Looking forward to watching lots of videos on my iPhone while in the gym and traveling

RL First Name: Pär
Age: 40
Status: Single
Occupation: Tenniscoach and manager for one of Swedens must succesful tennisclubs
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Favorite: Favorite sports teams are Green Bay Packers, Detroit Red Wings and Luleå Hockey. I love asian food, and my two favorite places i have visited are Maui and Lambeau Field. When I am not working I love to play poker and golf.
Random Fact: If any of the DC coaches wants to improve their tennisgame, I might be open for suggestions.
DC member you wish you could meet: Balugawhale, Krantz and Tommy Angelo

RL First Name: Sebastian
Age: 28
Status: Longtime GF
Occupation: N/A
Location: Münster, Germany
Favorite: poker(of course), music, books, my motorcycle, food, etc. etc.
Random Quote: "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." Arthur Miller
DC member you wish to meet: All of you.....especially Improva


This site looks really awesome from what i´ve seen so far. Looking forward to watch a ton of videos

RL First Name: Kev
Age: 28
Status: In a relationship
Occupation: Sales
Location: Nottingham UK
Favorite Sports Team - manchester united, food - pizza, place - New York, beach - Sharm el sheikh Egypt, pet: to expensive and i'm self centred so none! Day of the week - bank holidays. Poker show - high stakes poker.
Random Fact: I went to the same high school as isaac newton.
DC member you wish you could meet: Veloblank

RL First Name: Danny
Age: 24
Status: Single with kinda a GF (complicated and long)
Occupation: Graduate Assistant for College Football team
Location: Missouri
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Lakers, Mom's chili, California (where I grew up), Huntington Beach, dog, etc
Random Fact: Went to a nerd university for my undergrad, Carnegie Mellon University
DC member you wish you could meet: Balugawhale because there is a poker rule named after him.

Looking forward to the transition from Stox to DC. Going to be tough, but I think it's the right choice.