Name: Greg
Age: 33
Residence: Minneapolis, MN
I started playing only a short while ago in December of 2002. I was looking for an online horseracing game and after being severely discouraged with just about everything I found, I discovered the sim. I had two stables within a couple weeks and now up to ten... err, 11, but the last one doesn't count. Actually, 12 and the last two don't count.
My primary stables are all named kaif###, which is the name of a song on the album Darkside of the Spoon by Ministry, which is what I happened to be listening to when I first joined. It made sense then.
I grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from high school in Minnesota, went to the University of Kentucky for almost five years where I learned that no matter how smart you are, you have to go to class and turn stuff in. I left wiser but without a degree. Well, not that much wiser. My next decision was to sell everything I owned except my car and move south. Where? I didn't know, but I figured I'd know when I found it. I kept going until I got to Key West, where I was forced to stop going south due to the large body of water I found in my way. I lived out of my car and public showers for about a month and decided that I really didn't like the beach anyway. So I drove west to Los Angeles. The drive went smoothly until I ran out of money in New Orleans.
This pattern continued for about seven years where I learned more about horse racing (I have shown a profit every year since 1986 excluding a very tragic 2002 (net loss, $74), a lot about poker (including playing full time in Arizona and Las Vegas), and all about how hard it is making a living taking money off other people when they are trying to do the same to you.
Early in the new millenium, I grew tired of wandering and working and not having health insurance and just kind of tired of everything, so I needed a new play. I even kind of wanted to settle down and live in a city longer than a couple months (I've lived everywhere in the US from Key West to Vegas to Portland to NY and plenty of places in between, all in the past 11 years). There really wasn't much of a market for college drop-outs that know the ins and outs of holdem, so I bit the bullet. I went back to school. I practiced a couple semesters at community college, just taking a class or two, and that went reasonably well so I am now at the University of Minnesota where I am getting my math and actuarial science degrees. I take a full load of classes, still work (I wait tables), I play the horses when I have time (I hope to attack Canterbury pretty seriously in the summer of 2004) and play poker online to supplement my income.
I look forward to finally getting my degree and actually having a real job with a boss I hate. I then look forward to becoming a very grumpy old man.
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