Poker Discussion Post

A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer." The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down, "Why not on Tuesday?" A voice from in the well shouts back, "Because on Tuesday, it's your day in the well."

So yeah, essentially, in this thread, I'll answer any question you have about playing professionally, the game, myself, or any random question you have that might not even to do with poker.

I also thought it'd be cool to introduce wells to Pocketfives, since on other forums other wells have been really eye-opening. You learn a lot of things about the people who play for a living that you otherwise would've probably never known.

For those of you who don't know me I've been playing professionally for a few years now. Before poker I grew up in a suburb of Seattle. Somebody introduced me to poker when I was 16 and I got hooked pretty quickly, playing every home game I could find. My home life wasn't exactly awesome at the time so I would work at Arby's or play poker most hours after school, just to kind of get away from my situation at the time.

I left my home during senior year of high school on pretty bad terms with my family, pretty broke. I went to Alaska and worked as a commercial fisherman, and came back home and moved to the actual city of Seattle. I worked there as a security guard, usually sleeping through my shift, and then came home to play SNGs all night.

My first month doing this I luckboxed two tournaments and made $7,000, put a few grand in the bank, and then quit my job. I haven't had a real job since.

I totally sucked at the start, running break even over 1,000 SNGs, and showing a -20% ROI over my first 1,000 tournaments on Stars.I started watching training videos though, and working on my game constantly, and slowly but surely I got better. I moved through SNGs, to tournaments, to cash games.

The last year I've focused more on the live circuit, playing poker in Ireland, the Phillippines, Korea, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Uruguay, China, and Germany.

I no longer live in Seattle currently. I lived in Korea off and on for a year with my girlfriend there, but eventually it didn't work out. I was gone 90% of the time for tournaments or something and Korea is just too far away from the European events.I'm currently residing in Malta, doing the EPTs, playing the tournaments online, and trying to take as much money as I can out of the European economy by playing on their sites.