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Hey all, just joined yesterday. Still on the free trial but I ain't goin' nowhere! Hope to finally learn WTF to do to profit????

RL First Name: John
Age: 44
Status: Married, 5 years, with one beautiful 3 yr. old girl
Occupation: Mattress Sales (Serta)
Location: Birmingham, AL. Grew up in Chi-town.
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here):
Sports Team - Chicago White Sox, Da Bears, Da Bulls, Da Black Hawks.
Food- recently on a Vietnamese kick. But Chicago Pizza owns,IMHO.
Fave Music group- Grateful Dead

Random Fact: I took ballet class in 6th grade because it looked easy, and thought I could score one of the chicks... Until I inadvertently kicked her in the crotch while doing some high kicking thing. That went well.
DC member you wish you could meet: All of ya's

There isn't an intro thread and this seemed like a good enough place to leave something. o.O

RL First Name: Daniel
Age: 18
Status: Single
Occupation: Student
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Started playing poker through the Starcraft:Brood War community / liquidpoker.net. Playing for about 6 months now, joined because I wanted to learn NLHE HU. Decent uNL cash game history at 10nl-50nl, took some unsuccessful shots at 50nl and 100nl and was a comfortably winning player at 25nl, but haven't had much time for poker.

RL First Name: Pascal
Age: 27
Status: Married, sort of (for immigration purposes, real marriage in 2 yrs)
Occupation: Freelance Graphic Designer - www.makeshift.ca + www.monumentstudio.com
Location: Montreal, Canada

Favorite:
Sports Team - Montreal Canadiens
Food - Good Italian or Japanese gets me high
Fave Music group- Radiohead
Pet: Dogs usually, but we have 2 cats (Aimee and Gizmo), planning on adding a dog when we move out :-)

Started poker: November 2006 w/ $1 sngs
Currently playing: 200nl HU after playing 6-max for over a year up to the same level.

Dude, Jeremy Piven is the fuckin man, family friend?

RL First Name: Dan
Age:36
Status:engaged
Occupation: Real Estate
Location: Born in Maine living in exile
Favorite; Sports Team: Sox/Pats/Celtics/CC Tigers, food: Thai, place: In the mountains, beach: Mal Pais, Costa Rica, pet: My dog Moxie
Random Fact: When I was 12 I was courtside at the Salt Palace in SLC, UT watching the Celtics' morning practice. The BB rolled over to me and my brother. DJ raised his arms calling for the ball. I picked up the ball and threw a screwball that klonked Robert Parrish in the back.
DC member you wish you could meet: Any

RL First Name: David
Age: 26
Status: Girlfriend of three years
Occupation: PhD student in physics
Location: Munich, Germany
Favorite Movie: Eraserhead, Dr. Strangelove
Random Fact: I have seen elevators that were bigger than the room I lived in for the past three years.
DC member you wish you could meet: Joe Tall obv. Actually, all the coaches seem really cool, so I'd love to meet any of them.

Cool, after 3 weeks i found where should the first post go. Well, hey all!
RL First Name: Tibor (pronounce like the "i" was "e")
Age: 21
Status: It depends on what day of the week is it.
Occupation: undergrad (mathemtaics and programming)
Location: Hungary
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Let's see, i have a spider which i love, italian food is one of my major weakness, and my favorite thing to do if definitely hanging out with friends.
Random Fact: I just wanted to try out the 7-days free trial first, but on the last day i was damn drunk and forgot to cancel the subscription.
DC member you wish you could meet: Isabelle Mercier isn't member? She should be! She really should make videos! Poker. Of course.

Of course, I find this after my first post. Anyhow, better late than never.

RL First Name: Zy
Age: 26
Status: I don't like to get pot committed, if you know what I mean
Occupation: Student.
Location: AZ
Favorite: Sports Team: New York Yankees, Food: Chinese, Place: Puerto Rico
Random Fact: You cannot say, "but I was told by others to do thus" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice. Remember that.
DC member you wish you could meet: Batman!

RL First Name: Steve
Age: 28
Status: Single...but many irons in the fire if u know what I mean
Occupation: IT Customer Support
Location: Blackburn, England
Favorite (Sports Team): Blackburn Rovers
Random Fact: err... i dunno.... summat random? .. Once attended Wrestlemania lol! I'm a winning player at 2/50nl but had to withdraw roll to pay off debts, so now I'm grinding my way from the ground up, starting at 2nl!
DC member you wish you could meet: Just joined, don't know anybody yet, but I intend to be an active poster so we'll see!

RL First Name: Fredrik
Age: 22
Status: Free
Occupation: Student
Location: Sweden
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): A forrest by a lake.. So peaceful, ya know?
Random Fact: Prop betted to run a marathon in 2010.. Ugh...
DC member you wish you could meet: WoT and DJ.

Name: Kevin
Age: 19
Status: Single
Occupation: Poker
Location: Örebro, Sweden
Favorites: Food, EOD.
DC member(s) you wish you could meet: n0whereman for make do fun!
Random Fact: I hate stupid people.
Poker fact: Trying to reach 5/10 by the end of the year, currently at 1/2-2/4.
Other: kitten goes m00

RL First Name: Thomas
Age: 26
Status: Girlfriend
Occupation: Gradstudent(Industrial Marketing and Purchasing)
Location: Denmark
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): The local football club FTW! Food: Italian. Place and beach: Thailand - damn its nice! Movie: Pulp Fiction
Random Fact: First time I ever drove my parents car I left the handbrake on for the whole drive. That shit smells after 15 km. And my dad got sort of - well, he told my not to do it again
DC member you wish you could meet: WoT - his NLGrinder series rocks!

Been playing poker since 2006. Started with BRM in April 2008 and now playing 25nl. Been rolled for 50nl a couple of times, but can't seem to hold on. (obv. need coaching)

RL First Name: HÃ¥kon
Age: 23
Status: Single
Occupation: Student (journalism)
Location: Norway
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): LA Lakers, Mexican food, cats
Random Fact: I do professional chess coaching
DC member you wish you could meet: KRANTZ

Started with $5 in April. Now crushing 2/4. Ty DC!

RL First Name: Kevin
Age: 38
Status: Little bit of limbo (our contract at the FCC was bought out) so.........
Occupation: SMS Engineer (SMS 2003 primarily)
Location: Pasadena, MD (near the rednecks)
Favorite (Sports Team, food, place, beach, pet, etc...anything goes here): Colts baby!!!
Random Fact: The ladies love my cow colored cat, what they don't know is I have a cat so I can slip in sexual related comments without it being too obvious.
DC member you wish you could meet: I don't know. I'm sure there's at least 1 serial killer in the bunch so you'd have to be careful.

later...

kitten goes m00

I just really had to quote this, one of my handles is "cat says moo".

Name: Jonas

Age: 25
Status: Being hit on by fat chicks.
Occupation: Trying to convince a game company that I'm good enough to make awesome games.
Location: Moving around Sweden until I got a full-time job.
Favorites: Paintball until I busted my knee, guitar hero until nobody wanted to play me

DC member(s) you wish you could meet: thacs dog, tubasteves avatar girl. Anyone who could show me around Vegas when I'm baller enough to go there and spend a fortune.

Random Fact: I read faster than anyone I know (in my language). Could read a book (800 pages) in a couple hours if it was in Swedish, might take 3-4 if in english.
Poker fact: Cashed out 1000$ after running about 300 above EV and then didn't play for my entire final year in school, just starting again (with 8k hands in a month). Have played LHE, PHE, NLHE, sit'n'gos, tournaments, Omaha high, Omaha/8 but back to 25NL agin.