Will Ma - Miscellaneous

  I play piano at Sid Gold's karaoke bar in Manhattan! mailing list // song list

♠♥ I used to be a poker player and taught a poker course that is on MIT OpenCourseWare

I co-founded video game start-up Lunarch Studios and designed the strategy game Prismata

Poker

I'm a former instructor at Cardrunners, a poker training site with videos.

Back when I used to play professionally, I played mostly online. PocketFives tracks my online poker results, while my Hendon Mob profile tracks my live poker results.

Here is a talk about how poker has helped me make better decisions in life, which I've given at Google New York, Riot Games, MIT Entrepreneurship Center.

Math Coaching

I founded the Olympic Math Program at Grand River Chinese School. I also founded the Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art Contest (NCC), for which I continue to serve as a member of the problems committee:

• NCC '08
• NCC '09
• NCC '10
• NCC '11
• NCC '12
• NCC '13
• NCC '14
• NCC '15

Coach for the Canadian ARML team in 2008

An article I wrote: 5 Tips to make your Math Talk Inspire Children

Music Arrangements

I used to arrange for the Acabellas, a female acapella group:

• Wannabe, by Spice Girls (SSSAAA)
• Have You Ever, by Brandy (SSSAA)

Some piano sheet music I've arranged in the past:

• Snail, by Jay Chou (Chinese)
• Nothing's Gonna Change my Love for You, by George Benson
• Take a Bow, by Rihanna
• Ee Ruhl Gguh Myun, by Ivy (Korean)

A talk on trends in chord progressions: Open Problems in Pop Music