Here’s a fun question of the day for you
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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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Abulafia added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 5:13 pmBuy 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.
Bill added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 6:48 pmPersonally, I think a chunk of it would go into my bankroll and the rest would be put away into savings/investments.
Chilly added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 8:45 pmSchool loans paid = Monthly payment diverted to poker. A little dollar cost averaging into the bank roll.
Nick added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 9:02 pmI’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.
StB added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 9:02 pmI am too responsible. At least half would go to my mortgage. A portion would go to big poker tournaments as well.
Joaquin Ochoa added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 9:52 pmI 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
Heafy added these pithy words on Jul 21 05 at 11:34 pmI’d pay off bills and student loans, splurge a little and pad the bank roll by $2K I think.
gracie added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 10:30 amInvest!
And hire a real honest to God poker coach.
Joe Speaker added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 12:21 pmWell, 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.
StudioGlyphic added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 1:59 pmPay off the school loans first. Invest half of the remaining amount. Increase my mortgage payment and put money into an IRA monthly.
StudioGlyphic added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 2:00 pmWait, wait… this money came from a poker tournament? Set aside enough bankroll to play 30/60 and then do what I said above…
Johnny FlopBoot added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 8:10 pmI 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!!
Johnny FlopBoot added these pithy words on Jul 22 05 at 8:13 pmThe 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…
Drizztdj added these pithy words on Jul 25 05 at 1:22 pmLittle 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
The Engineer added these pithy words on Nov 09 05 at 11:26 pmhell i’d get into that tournoment again! haha …. but getting noble, probably set up a scholarship program for uni students.
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