How old are you?
Younger than some, older than many

Where do you live?
Everywhere and nowhere, many homes around the world.

Are you married? Girlfriend/Boyfriend? Children?
Engaged

Occupation besides poker?
Professional

If studying, what and where?
The studying never stops. All that changes is the topic and the priority. Technology, international affairs, foreign language, game theory, mathematics, poker, whatever.

Favorite movie?
Too many to list. I'm a bit of a movie buff.

Best poker acomplishment?
Now this one I like. I find it very interesting that the other respondents have put down all their big wins. I also have some wins, but they aren't what I feel are my best accomplishments.

I think my best accomplishments are a couple of tournaments where I had absolute garbage preflop cards for the vast majority of the tournaments, yet managed to optimize gains of the few hands I did make, and then do enough stealing, semi-bluffing and outright bluffing to survive and make it into the money. I think anyone with a little talent and luck can make a final table or even win a tournament when Jupiter aligns with Mars. But it is the rare person who can make something from nothing and I'm proud that I did that in a couple of cases.

Another example was playing in a ring game this week. I was getting turned and rivered so much, if I didn't get tire tracks on my face on the turn, then I got my head dunked on the river. I was stuck somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 big bets. But I knew this was a good game and urged myself to hang in there and stay confident. I managed to dig myself about halfway out before I became just too tired to play. I was really proud of the way I trusted my instincts and stuck it out to play more.

How long been playing?
Kind of a loaded question. For poker, I've been a serious student on and off for about 15 years, but only started playing a lot again recently. But before that, I was an expert in casino blackjack and did fairly well as a part time card counter. The casino industry has also been a serious hobby of mine for almost 20 years.

Feel free to add any other information or pictures about yourself you want to share.

No pictures, thank you very much, not a pretty sight. I love what poker represents over and above the money. It is mano a mano competition. It represents the best and worst in people.

It is a search for the answers to questions. It is a search for the truth (even if the truth is a lie). It is a study of human beings and human nature.

It has exposed my own weaknesses and frailties and allowed me an opportunity to improve upon them. It has shown me what my strengths are and how and when to use them to my advantage.

Everything that I have learned from poker, I have been able to apply in other parts of life, especially at work and in negotiations. It is becoming second nature to study a person for a minute or two and be able to tell how they are feeling, if they are worried about something, if they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes, etc.