What would you do if you won the World Series of Poker?

I think may of us have dreamt about winning the wsop and just thinking about all that money that you could win you smile and imagine everything you could do with it.
So, What would you do if you won the main event?

Keep playing professionally.

Keep playing the circuit and enjoy life while traveling the world. Buy my family a new home and invest some wisely. After taxes the money is nice but won’t last forever if your not smart. Hopefully I can parlay the win into a sponsorship and continue to run good.

Probably ambiguous answer don'T KNOW...

Hi.
If I won the world series of poker, I would continue to play and improve my game even more diligently and persistently than before.
Good luck.

first off all I would buy a Tesla (my dreamcar) full option; then a house with pool and all the rings and bells. And then play poker maybe as a pro.

I would devote my whole life to playing professional poker.

I don't think about this, because it's never gonna happen , have some more realistic goals, that I want to achieve, like good place in some big online tournament.

I would use the money traveling around the world playing tournaments health permitting

I will split the money using part of them to improve my home, travel around the world and invest in other hobbies and with the other part i will continue to play trying to further improve my game.

It would be great to have so much money behind me. I will be able to fully enjoy life without worrying about the usual bitterness. I will travel more and have fun.

manolo salazar said:

I think may of us have dreamt about winning the WSOP and just thinking about all that money that you could win you smile and imagine everything you could do with it.
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I would keep moderate playing and would invest most of my money.

If I won the World Series of Poker, I would have traveled the world through the world to visit beautiful places on the planet, and then I would return to poker and continue my poker career, for me such a lot of money would help me both for my career and for life!

I would invest the money I won in business. I would create several opportunities for earnings for my relatives and give them a chance to self-assed in life and become independent. Having invested the remainder in passive dividends, I would start with travel around the world, and further plans would already come from this.

I'd retire and never play more than $35 tournament in my life.

I would pay off my family's debt, parents, siblings. I would set up college funds for my nieces and nephews. I would move to another country where I could play all the major online poker sites; continue to play poker online and live. Make some investments for long term stability. Beyond that, I don't know, haven't really given it much thought.

I would start prepearing for the next series!

First taking my wife on a dream vacation would priority number one. Then I'd be taking my new clout in the poker community and talk with as many poker pros as I could and incorporate things they're doing into my game. I'd help coaching upcoming players. I'd also give back and donate to sites that have put up freerolls like cardschat.com and a few others. I'd probably try to put on a high guarantee event in the Detroit area. That's were I'm from and it never has any big events come through there. Despite there being a couple Main Event winners who've came from Michigan.

i'd be done with poker

I would just take a break with poker and stop working. Then go on a world tour with my family. After the trip I would buy a few properties and live on the rental income. And I would hire a housekeeper and nanny for our children.

omg.....

i would dance the sweatest jig......just me and my dance,twirling,dipping,swaying to the beautiful song in my head...closeing my eyes blocking out the lights the camera,the buzz in the room and i dance my ,by god i did it jig.....just me and my trophy....i know.......wake up Alice....this aint wonderland.......i can dream big as i want though....my dream!

i'd probably gamble more on faster pace higher stakes games. poker is too grindy.

Probably lose it all over the next few months in cash games.

First of all, i would brag about it and wont stop talking about it,
Second, pay off some bills
Third, Host $2.5K Freerolls every week for my community
Fourth and lastly, i would go for a vacation with my lovely wife and 2 kids

I'd hire a good accountant, pay the taxes then take at least half of the money set up in a mix of investments and savings accounts to cover both long term savings and daily living expenses off the interest and dividends then, I'd pay off my student loans and bills, buy a nice house, spend at least a month or two traveling the world with my girl. I'd give maybe 100K each to a 4 or 5 people very close to me. Then with whatever is left I'd take a few hundred thousand and set up some type of charity organization and take maybe half a million or so as a poker bankroll and become a professional poker player/philanthropist while nurturing a few hobbies and artistic projects. One big motivation in my taking poker more seriously these days is as a vehicle to donate some winnings to various charities, I think it's one way poker can create deeper meaning for players.

As I get older I have no delusions that I'd be instantly a "great" pro and thus I would not want to risk much on actual poker after a huge win like that and would probably have a pretty nitty BRM for it. Although I would def make a point to play in the WSOP events each summer and at least give a shot at maybe mid stakes cash games. Then again suppose I did grind up the proper roll to play the WSOP ME full buy in, I'd probably have been a better player if not already a pro player and would be more willing to shot a few larger events and maybe a stake or two higher of cash games I had been playing. But if I won the ME a la Moneymaker style from a satellite or something, i def wouldn't try to be playing super high rollers or high stakes cash games in Macau after the win.