Inspired by this thread I ran across on MetaFilter, what would you do if someone dumped $100,000 in your lap tomorrow? Let’s say, on a lark, you entered a tournament with $100,000 1st place payout and you won. Does it go into your bankroll? Do you spend it like a drunken Al sailor? Pay some bills?
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| Betfair | 30% | $1500 | |
| Aced | 30% | 100% up to $500 | |
| Virgin Poker | 30% | 200% up to £1000 | |
| Poker Heaven | 30% | 200% up to €1000 | |
| Poker Nordica | 30% | 100% up to $200 | |
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| Site | Rake Race | Rake Chase | Freeroll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyle's Room | $35,000 | ||
| Cereus Poker Network* | $7,500 | $10,000 | $10,000** |
| Cake Poker | $60,000 | ||
| Party Poker*** | $50,000 | ||
| Red Star | $23,000 | ||
| Eurobet*** | $21,000 | ||
| Players Only | $16,400 | ||
| Tower Gaming*** | $15,000 | ||
| Full Tilt Poker | $10,000 | ||
| Carbon Poker | $12,000 | ||
| Betfair Poker | $12,000 | ||
| Boss Media Network**** | $5,000 | ||
| Cellsino Poker | $5,000 | ||
| Power Poker | $5,000 | ||
| Poker Nordica | $5,000 | ||
| NoIQ | €1,500 |
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Buy a house in Italy. In the Marche, or Frosinone, near the airport or Sicilia. 100′00 will buy a three bedroom old farmhouse, outbuildings, 2500 square metres of land, and an olive and peach grove.
I’ve never seen a peach tree.
The Marche. Tuscan like landscape, Tuscan like food. No tourists, except me.
I might move up from $3/6 at the casino. ;-)
Put a downpayment on a house in Santa Barbara. :)
In So. Cal. you can make one mortgage payment :-)
Personally, I think a chunk of it would go into my bankroll and the rest would be put away into savings/investments.
School loans paid = Monthly payment diverted to poker. A little dollar cost averaging into the bank roll.
I’d pay off my auto loan, quit my job, and move to the CA Bay area. Been wanting to do it, but don’t have the cash to just pack up and leave without a job first.
I am too responsible. At least half would go to my mortgage. A portion would go to big poker tournaments as well.
I would give half to my folks and then purchase my mother a car on top of that. 7*3=21 G’s to my sister’s kids college fund. Then I would make a run at Vegas with the rest…stay at a cheap motel and play 10/20
I’d pay off bills and student loans, splurge a little and pad the bank roll by $2K I think.
Invest!
And hire a real honest to God poker coach.
Well, that’s $57K after taxes here in sunny CA. My round number fetish dicates I toss $7K into AJ’s college fund. Five G’s for the poker bankroll (including some buy-ins to the Legends of Poker events coming up at The Bike. A little shopping spree for the Mrs. Hire a landscaper to plant my slope. Take a cruise with the fam. Invest the rest.
Pay off the school loans first. Invest half of the remaining amount. Increase my mortgage payment and put money into an IRA monthly.
Wait, wait… this money came from a poker tournament? Set aside enough bankroll to play 30/60 and then do what I said above…
I claim BullShit on everyone above.
I would immediately move from $1/2 NL to $10/20 NL and after losing it all in 3 weeks… I’m right back where I started.
WhoooHaaa!!
The above comment is precisely why I can’t seem to move up in limits… or pay off any of my never-ending debt.
It’s a sad commentary on my reality…
Little Drizz would get a boost in his college fund, dear and patient wife could buy every god-given knick-knack for her scrapbooking.
For me, another iPod :)
hell i’d get into that tournoment again! haha …. but getting noble, probably set up a scholarship program for uni students.
I would Put $10,000 in my poker bankroll for tournaments entries. I would either payoff bills or buy a pizza shop with the rest. I’d probably go the pizza shop route so I earn money with the cash instead of dumping it to creditors.