what would you buy first if you won big?

[luckystraights]

When (no if's allowed) I win big, and it will have to be big, the very first thing I will do is buy a Lamborghini, I have been obsessed with getting one ever since I first saw a Diablo.

Though I'll probably need to win the WSOP main event to be able to afford the insurance.

[Midnight Rose]

I'd buy a good attorney.

[Detroitdad]

I would set my children up to have their schooling paid for.

Then a giant obscene monster truck!!

[austin5string]

I'd pay off my parent's mortgage, set 'em up with a huge sum of money, and I'd try to pay off my sister's mortgage, although I'm not sure she'd let me.

Then I'd worry about buyin' something for me.

[MsprinM]

House for the family, college funds and nest eggs for the kids, retirement funds for me and wifey. and a vacation before i went back to work.

[Lerxst]

A new house. Perhaps a new car. Invest the rest.  Nothing for anyone else.

[rqpd]

Definitely a new car.  The house would take months to find and chips would take longer, with all the opinion polls and all.  The car I could do in a day.

[Dr. Neau]

How do a new house and a new set of chips make it into the same poll?  That's O(1000) difference...

[Martini]

If I had to pick one, it would have to be house for investment purposes. I would also want to put only a portion of the money into a house also. Keep the rest in more liquid investments.

[Midnight Rose]

Keep the rest in more liquid investments.

Considering your avatar, I wanna come hang out with you the day after you win.

[luckystraights]

That will be fun, super cars, shopping and poker.

[links_slayer]

Invest 3/4 of it and spend the remaining 1/4 as frivolously and quickly as possible.

[Fishflinger]

Gotta start with the roof over my head.

Thou I've always said give me $1 million that I can't put into some tax free government bonds and I'll earn 10K per year for every % of interest paid.

[demon604]

Dinner, that win took a lot of energy.

[midwest]

I voted car, but it really depends on HOW MUCH?

Anything over $250k and I would find a nice little car.... 

[Yankee]

I think I'm with Rose on this one.  If what you meant what want actual product would I buy I would probably pay off my parents house (if they still have a morgage)

[NotFadeAway]

The first thing I would buy would have to be a pack of Starburst and a coke.  Winning would take an awful lot of energy and make me very tired and hungry.  After that was taken care of, though, I'd help my parents get a new house.

[sharkyspoker]

Travel, travel and more travel, I don't need to fill my house up with more junk to collect dust. Every time my kids have some time off school we would be traveling somewhere. The carribean, hawaii, a weekend cruise to the bahamas, trekking in New Zealand for a summer. I would just get us out of the house and travel.

A couple of my buddies and I have a long standing dream/pact that if one of us falls ass backwards into a huge pile of F**K you money we would pay off each others wives and bills for a month and spend that month traveling by luxery motor coach  playing golf around the country. Watch out Hootie, there's a busload of hackers coming to Augusta in the future.

Sharky

[Joe_L]

FIRST is the key here.  Of course I'd eventually get home and pay off my house and buy a new car and get a good attorney on retainer and such.  But FIRST I would go on a tear at the  stripclubs with my closest friends that would put Moneymaker's $25k bender to shame!

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JL

[Wedge Rock]

I'd buy a good attorney.

I can arrange for a modest retainer...

Oh, wait...  sorry...  I didn't see the word "good"...

[Midnight Rose]

I'd buy a good attorney.

I can arrange for a modest retainer...

Oh, wait...  sorry...  I didn't see the word "good"...

[OMG_Beavers]

After getting out of debt... then a house, then a ring for my girlfriend.

[bjhester454]

Definitely depends on how much I win, but I would probably blow at least a quarter of it having fun  .  Then try to set myself up for comfortable living afterwards (house, car, family, & all that).

[Midnight Rose]

After getting out of debt... then a house, then a ring for my girlfriend.

ooh, you sound like Michael.  I can just imagine what that would be like these days...

"I'll marry you when I get a job."
[he got a job]
"Ok, I'll marry you when we get a car."
[we got a car]
"Ok, I'll marry you when we get a house."
[we got a house]
"Ok, I'll marry you when I win the Main Event."


/Midnight "Yet, somehow, we got married" Rose