Undergraduate admissions decisions were issued today for Early Decision applicants and...
After careful consideration of your application to the University of Pennsylvania for the Class of 2013, the Admissions Selection Committee has decided to defer its final decision until the Regular Decision notification date of March 31, 2009. I realize that you must be disappointed by this delay, but I want to assure you that you are still being considered for admission to Penn.
The Admissions Committee chooses this action when we wish to have more time to evaluate your application. While we are clearly impressed by your accomplishments, we must be cautious with the limited number of spaces Penn has available. Because we want to give your candidacy the fullest consideration, we ask that you send us a mid-year report of your first semester grades.
If you have any questions, or if this office can be of any assistance to you during the coming months, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Early this week, I decided to play in the 25000 man "Battle Boris in the Bahamas" freeroll on PokerStars. I just played solidly and I even surprised myself when I made top 50 to qualify for round 2.
So today, I begin the 888 entrant round 2 without many expectations. I began losing 600 of my 1500 chips and feeling like shit (played pocket 10s horribly). Then I folded for 20 or so minutes and was blinded down to around 700 chips when I get a QQ and double up to 1400. Soon after in a span of 10 hands, I hit a great run of cards getting an AQ, 2 AKs, an AA and a JJ. After that great run, I found myself with around 7k chips.
After the first break, I notice this largestack guy raising and rereraising somewhere like 30% of his hands. I raise AQ suited from UTG and then he reraises me. I thought about folding but I knew I had him beat but didn't know if I should risk it. After a long period of thought, I decide to push all-in and he calls me with KQ. No suckout and I double up.
At the middle of the second hour of play, I find myself with around 12k in chips and pocket Aces in the big blind. CU raises to 3x, natually I 3 bet him to 3x his bet and he pushes all in. I call and then see that he has AK. Can you say eZ? After that hand I was rank 12 or so.
End of the 2nd hour with about 20k in chips. Guy with 10k raises to 3x and I 3x that with AK. He pushes all in and I have odds to call if he's got a pocket pair. So I call and he shows AJ, thankfully no suckout. At this point, I've made top 200 for a $5 payout and thought that was good enough.
Another very very big hand during the 3rd hour. I've made top 100 for $10 payout and there's around 75 people left. I have 80k and pocket aces in the big blind again. Middle position player with 100k raises to 3x, I 3x that, he goes all in, I call, he shows JJ. No suckout and I'm boosted all the way to rank 1.
Smooth cruising through top 50 and $25 payout, and I've still got rank 1 with 180k chips. The rest of the tournament is me folding most of my way into the top 9 (Final table doesn't actually play, all 9 get qualified for the Battle Boris grand final). Pocket 9s is officially my new luckiest hand. I knocked out some guy in 15th or so and the 10th place finisher with pocket 9s, both times hitting sets on the flop. And I felt bad for doing it to tenth place but I gave him a chance to make top 9. He was short stack and I negotiated with my table to keep folding around because the other table had 2 medium-short stacks that were being blinded out quickly. Guy doesn't want to listen and pushes with 66 and I call with 99 to set the flop.
Anyway, after all this mayhem, I manage to qualify for the Battle Boris grand final and win $25. There are currently 27 people qualified for it and I am so happy to be one of them (Open the tournament lobby, show players - Kim Tae Yeon). The 2 grand final tournaments are being held on November 16 and 6 people will go to the Bahamas to play heads up with Boris Becker for a seat in the PokerStars Carribean Adventure main event (This is the same event Elky won $2m in). Now that I've come so far, I really want to go all the way and win this.
Now if I do get to play Boris Becker in the Bahamas, I wouldn't be able to do so legally. I just turned 17 on October 6th and I learned poker playing @ Full Tilt high stakes playchip and low stakes cash with freeroll earnings (and $15 transfer from my friend). I recently dumped all my FTP playchips after going broke from $31 and hating my life. Hopefully, I'll be able to turn the $25 I won from this tournament into a sufficient bankroll. It definitely is going to be a lot easier because of the option of micro stakes.
This is the story of an aspiring professional poker player who is playing illegally as a minor.
So... I took the Metrolink from Baldwin Park to LA Union station and then took the Metro purple line subway to 7th street, walked down Figuroa and got to the LA convention center just to find out I had to pay $35 for the E for All expo in order to see the WCG USA finals. Being ignorant about the event other than the fact that it was held at the LA convention center, I did not have enough money for the expo and was not able to get in to see my heros Nony, G5, Machine, IdrA, and iNcontroL. I then traveled home via Metro feeling like a dumbass on my last day of being 16 years old. Today is my birthday and I hate my life .
They've even got 2 different versions for it, although the only difference I can see is the CD cover.
MV for their song 산소같은 너 (Love Like Oxygen)
First promotional performances for this album, SHINee World + 산소같은 너
The performances were indeed impressive and with SM entertainment's amazing ability to promote their artists, SHINee will probably skyrocket into fame just like all of the other SM artists
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