Life is short, and that’s exactly why we need a bucket list. The items on your list don’t have to be extraordinary, or unrealistic. They have to be simple and have a meaning to you, and you only.
Becoming a millionaire until you’re thirty years old sounds great, but it doesn’t always work.
Business failure shouldn’t stand in your way to a happy life. Because it’s not all about the money, and at least you tried.
Little things in life is what makes us happy. Money will not make the difference when it comes to happiness, and they usually come when they’re least expected.
However, going to Las Vegas to spend money sounds like a good idea for a bucket list. Even if you have no idea how Black Jack works, placing chips on all sorts of tables will make you feel like James Bond for a moment.
64-year-old John Hesp decided to fulfill his bucket list in Las Vegas. John never never played in a poker tournament with a buy-in of more than couple of bucks. But in order to complete his bucket list, he had to compete in the World Series of Poker with a $10,000 entry fee.
Yes, the odds weren’t exactly in his favour but he just wanted to see what would happen.
At the end, he reached the final table in the competition and walked away with $1,000,000!
“I wanted to let you all know that I am having the most surreal experience of my life,” he wrote on Facebook.
John made it further than most of the 7,200 other players, and that’s a huge success.
“Just woke after 4 hours (broken) sleep as my phones been pinging all night. It would appear that I’ve become an International Poker Superstar as people from all around the world are wanting to connect with me.”
“All the TV people and Poker Press are wanting to interview me as I did about 5 yesterday.”
“This is something I’d quite wanted to do for a while now and when I started – just hoped I could make it into the top 1000.”
“I would like to thank my wife Mandy and all my family and friends back home for supporting me in this and hope that I’ve done them, Bridlington and East Yorkshire proud.
“I am playing again at midday in the final 27 out of over 7000 entrants from all over the world. I am truly ‘living the dream’.”
He is living the dream indeed!
John is aware of his lack of experience when it comes to poker, and he’s not afraid to talk about it publicly.
“I am to poker what Donald Trump is to politics – an amateur,” he told PokerNews.com.
