I’ve recently acquired a new poker vice. I’ve known the procedure of playing hands for a while, but for the past half year I’ve been studying and playing Texas Hold’em online on PokerStars (prodigy910). Despite being in the red as far as career earnings, I can honestly say that it’s something I enjoy doing, and my learning experience has been one of my more enjoyable ones (in kind of a masochistic sense sometimes, but don’t judge me.) I’ve charged myself with at least regaining what I’ve lost, and as soon as I clear my plate as far as school and work goes, I can make more progress toward that goal.

I played my first live game yesterday during the Super Bowl. I came out in the black, so that was pretty cool. Live poker is so much different than online poker. Ignoring the fact that I had the virgin jitters (which I hope wasn’t visible to everyone else) I couldn’t control my environment as much as I usually can by locking myself in my room with my Mac. It was a good experience, though. My friend Steve invited me to what is going to be my second live event, so we’ll see how that goes!

In my senior project course, we had the pleasure of having some folks from Andromeda Training visit and demonstrate their business visualization game called “The Income-Outcome Game.” I loved going through the simulation, and learned a lot from the process. I would recommend them to anyone looking to increase financial literacy or business insight in their organization.

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