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Now that we're finally in to the homestretch of the semester we've all got plenty of ways to cope with the stress and the boredom. By this time of the semester I assume that everyone has had sufficient time to find some new and exciting way to keep their mind busy when they want to just pull themselves away from their work for a minute or two. This can be anything from playing sports, video games, taking up a new hobby like knitting. I of course have jumped over these things and gone straight to risking my inheritance and my financial futures just for fun. That's right, I said it, I am a gambler.

I know what you are all thinking; “Oh he's got a problem and he's destroying his future.” Let me start off by first saying that anyone who says they have never gambled in their life is just flat out lying. It may not be intentional but it is true. Each and every decision we make each day is a balancing act between cost and benefits for each possible outcome. This is risk analysis and then actually doing something about that process is the gamble. It is a risk. I am just a part of the population that decides to try and make money by constantly calculating these types of decisions in order to find some strategy and situation for bettering myself. This is what financial brokers do all of the time and we still give our banks money, though this may be changing.

I have simply found my way for coping with the doldrums of the semester is best suited to something risky and adventurous. For me there is nothing more exciting that risking money in a calculated gamble between myself and several other people. Thanks to the marvel of the Internet and my favorite site full tilt poker, I can easily jump online at any hour of the day or night and find as many people as I like to play a game with. Also with full tilt it's not as if I am playing some game that tends to end the same way or play out similarly, it is a game of chance as well as a game of strategy