The start of another gambling delinquent
Before I joined the poker craze, I was one of the best fantasy baseball players out there (in 1998 finishing 2nd overall in yahoo). When I was 19 in March 2003 I started to bet on sports, and started off very bad. After getting myself in a deep hole, I bet on the under for all 6 of the NBA Finals and won 6 bets in a row, getting myself out of the hole and very well into the green. When I went off to college, I watched less sportscenter, and the results were very negative and I actually went on a 2 month slump in football not winning a single bet. By that time the poker craze was insane and I signed up for party poker (like all the other fish) and dropped a bunch of money and absolutely hated poker. 1 year later I turned 21 and my brother took me to Atlantic City and I sat down at my first live game at fixed limit Texas Holden and I wasn’t too good and I dropped the buy in.
After watching the WSOP on ESPN for 2 years, I started to get back into poker. I played in home games at college, went to Atlantic City frequently, and I was frequently winning money. I decided to go back to online poker after getting a message from Phi Ivey on Facebook. I was in a need for a chip set, and on the ESPN poker page I saw a banner for a free poker set. I signed up for VPP and then Fulltilt Poker and started playing No Limit right away. I eventually went broke again but I was getting a little better at poker. I then got a flyer at my college for a free college tournament which was held by WPEX. I was one of the top college players there, winning the satellite 3 times, which was tied for the best. I ended up getting bad beats in 2 of the tournaments, and getting a disappointing 3rd in the other tournament winning myself $500 and an Ipod.
I then took that money and joined another VPP site Titan Poker. I took my $500, and won 2 sit and goes more than doubling my money. After playing $5/10 on WPE I decided to jump to $30/$60 Limit Holdem and made it to over $10,000 in a 3 day period. After losing some of that money, I moved up to $50/$100 Limit in a horrible bankroll management and lost everything. However while playing on Full tilt poker; I played with the big boys like Juan Juanda, Quiet Lion (Richard Brodie) and numerous good players that made me into a better player.
I then finally discovered VPP message boards and my game went from above average to good, to semi professional. I have management my tilt factor, know how to manage my bankroll (I was bound to go bust with the crazy limits I was playing), and I now get extra money from bonus whoring. But my biggest motivation to continue playing poker after losing it all was after watching the movie Rounders. After losing everything I had several times in my gambling life, one quote from the movie kept me playing poker “We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us”. Most people play poker online for a hobby, I wish to in the future do it for a living for half of the year while teaching math the other half. In the poker world there is a pond of fish for any shark to eat up.
After watching the WSOP on ESPN for 2 years, I started to get back into poker. I played in home games at college, went to Atlantic City frequently, and I was frequently winning money. I decided to go back to online poker after getting a message from Phi Ivey on Facebook. I was in a need for a chip set, and on the ESPN poker page I saw a banner for a free poker set. I signed up for VPP and then Fulltilt Poker and started playing No Limit right away. I eventually went broke again but I was getting a little better at poker. I then got a flyer at my college for a free college tournament which was held by WPEX. I was one of the top college players there, winning the satellite 3 times, which was tied for the best. I ended up getting bad beats in 2 of the tournaments, and getting a disappointing 3rd in the other tournament winning myself $500 and an Ipod.
I then took that money and joined another VPP site Titan Poker. I took my $500, and won 2 sit and goes more than doubling my money. After playing $5/10 on WPE I decided to jump to $30/$60 Limit Holdem and made it to over $10,000 in a 3 day period. After losing some of that money, I moved up to $50/$100 Limit in a horrible bankroll management and lost everything. However while playing on Full tilt poker; I played with the big boys like Juan Juanda, Quiet Lion (Richard Brodie) and numerous good players that made me into a better player.
I then finally discovered VPP message boards and my game went from above average to good, to semi professional. I have management my tilt factor, know how to manage my bankroll (I was bound to go bust with the crazy limits I was playing), and I now get extra money from bonus whoring. But my biggest motivation to continue playing poker after losing it all was after watching the movie Rounders. After losing everything I had several times in my gambling life, one quote from the movie kept me playing poker “We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us”. Most people play poker online for a hobby, I wish to in the future do it for a living for half of the year while teaching math the other half. In the poker world there is a pond of fish for any shark to eat up.
