A puzzle and Ivey

I always thought this was a neat puzzle.

You have a 3 gallon and a 5 gallon bucket and a source of water. How can you get yourself exactly 4 gallons. And this isn't one of those bullshit play on word things that makes you want to kick the person asking you in the balls. This is a real problem with a pragmatic solution.

Some billionaire named Andy Beal is a guy who started a bank and aerospace company. In his spare time he tried of figure out Fermet's theorum and in the process came up with Beal's conjecture. In other words, a smart fucker. He got into the poker scene and wanted to test him self against the best so he went to Vegas and played the best guys. After a while he got pretty good and challenged them all to a game. "The Corporation" is a cooperative of poker pros who accepted his challenge. For the last 4 - 5 years they've played off and on in a one-on-one game.

Two years ago, Beal got the better of them for a couple of million. They had individually taken much more than that from him while he was learning the game, so they seemed undeterred.

A month ago he showed up again and over the last few weeks the pros have rotated in and out and with the bets starting at $50,000 - $100,000, the money floated back and forth with no one getting a significant advantage. Then Beal went on a run. He BUSTED the corporation for $10 million, their entire buy-in in a series of games against Todd Brunson ( son of Doyle), Jennifer Hartman, and Ted Forrest. The corporation was cracked.

Monday Beal showed up again and was all like, " you want some more..... bitches ?"

That's when Phil Ivey walked in.

Four days and $16.5 million dollars later, Andy Beal is retired from poker.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/detail.php?p_id=841&PHPSESSID=d58f6396b5cf4111a7d1d2c0d3e854ee

Do NOT fuck with Phil Ivey.