MadCow's Profile

Poker, football (watching, not playing!), watching most sports, sports gambling, films, music, reading, TV, writing, walking, running

8 Mile, the Die Hard series, Forrest Gump, Midnight Express, Ocean's Eleven, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man, The Beach, The Blues Brothers, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption

24, Coming Of Age, Deal or No Deal, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Have I Got News For You, High Stakes Poker, Mastermind, Million Pound Drop, Mock The Week, Pointless, QI, Question of Sport, The Cleveland Show, The One Show, The Simpsons

Angels & Demons, Breaking Vegas, Bringing Down The House, Eye of the Hurricane (Alex Higgins' autobiography), Play Like The Pros, Super System II, The Da Vinci Code, The God Delusion

"Ambition is Critical", Dylan Thomas
"Get busy living, or get busy dying", The Shawshank Redemption
"Before you kiss the sky better learn how to kneel", Mysterious Ways (U2)
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it", Lou Holtz
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies", Arthur Calwell
"Today's dream is tomorrow's reality", Slingshot
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought", Wingman
"For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism", Wingman
"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money", Wingman
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy", Wingman
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties", Melodyme
"Competition came first. 4 Cavemen sit at fire and hot cavewoman shows up, competition ensues", Villaridge
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life", Geaser23
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done", Stingeretta
"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile", Anon (although credit to LadySplicer for finding it)
"This isn't over yet......", Jack Bauer
"Yipee cay aye mother fucker!", Die Hard
"Mark is wondering whether giving a serious life talk to a friend's teddy bear is really the best use of his time....", My Facebook status, 12/03/07.
"This is only the third day this month I've been drinking""Martyn, it's the second of July!", Conversation with Martyn Williams

Bryan Adams, Coldplay, David Gray, Embrace, Feeder, Kasabian, Manic Street Preachers, Razorlight, R.E.M., Robbie Williams, Scouting For Girls, Simply Red, Snow Patrol, The Feeling, The Killers, Take That (newer stuff), U2

So this is me;

I'm a quite happy-go-lucky guy in my mid twenties who's crammed a fair bit into however many years I've been alive. I've been "Area Manager" for a pub-poker league (basically running my own little business, in the form of a franchise), I've studied four years at Swansea University without gaining a degree (Aegrotat pending, but hell that is a long story!), I've lived, loved and lost more than is probably fair, I've come back from a a truly atrocious life changing event, and last but by no means least I've become a father to the personification of inspiration that is my beautiful daughter Daisy Annabelle Miller, pictures of whom will be on my profile somewhere.

Aside from that, I'm basically a nice bloke. "Too f***ing nice for your own good!", as a friend once famously said. I'm a fun-loving Northern lad with a constant need to be kept mentally active.

So that's what has happened to me in two and a bit decades, heavily edited down. Today, I'm a Volunteer Basic Skills Teaching Assistant, helping adults with their literacy and numeracy, and looking to end up as a Basic Skills Teacher. To that end, I'm looking for full-time night work, preferably in an admin role, so as to be able to finish my training.

I'm one of those people who are impossible to write off. I'm an atheist with a sense of destiny, and life isn't done with me yet.

Regular

Intermediate

Grinder

12 year(s)

20

PS points

9h9d or ThTd NLH, wrap hands in Omaha Hi

Daniel Negreanu or Annette Obrestad

Harrington on Hold'Em 1

About $70

About $260

Around £80

£80

Online

NL Holdem, PL Omaha, Hi/Lo Omaha

MTTs (multi-table), STTs/SNGs (single table), Short handed, Turbos, Deep Stacked, Satellites

Under $10, $10-$50

Online

NL Holdem, PL Omaha, Hi/Lo Omaha

Short handed, Full Ring, Deep Stacked

Micro ($0.05/$0.10 and under), Low ($0.10/$0.25 to $0.25/$0.50)

Online

Roulette

Online Sports Betting, Live Sports Betting, Scratch Tickets