Join Date: May 2013
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My life consists of poker and searching for a full time job. I have been playing poker for about 10 plus years, and I would say i love the game, but it can be brutal at times. My typical day in which I do is play online poker for a couple hours on Poker Stars or some other site. Also I like to check out poker sites such as Pocketfives, Pokernews, Cardplayer, Two Plus Two. I live to check each sites, for players in which I follow on Facebook/Twitter or just know through poker or am just a fan of. So I would say I am addicted to the game of poker. As of recently I discovered Two Plus Two Forums in which players sell shares for tournaments such as WSOP events and or local events. I think I might be addicted to the rush of putting money into someone playing these events, and the sweat on twitter of updates. My dream job would be either playing poker full time or becoming a poker reporter for one of the sites in which I check every day for updates.
My background of poker started when i was young and has grown throughout my career. I would say i first got into poker before the MoneyMaker era, I would say around 2002 then it grew after that when I found online poker, in which I have been playing until present time. I use to play poker in High School with a bunch of my friends every friday night small sit and go's, then we moved to cash games. While in H.S. I worked at a supermarket to pay for my car and my poker obsession. I would say that i use to go pay check to pay check trying to run up my online poker account on Poker Stars, I use to follow local heros online and live up to them and want to be just like them and play online
poker for millions. But that dream never happened as I have moved from Hudson MA to Conway, New Hampshire to get away from the family and grow up.
Before moving up here I went to school in Manchester, NH at Hesser College. I went there for business administration and played poker locally while in school and that is where I really got into poker. On my off days in school I would grind small stakes tournaments online usually 10 at a time, which was an ok (ROI). Just wasn't enough to quit school and play professionally. So I was in school from 2008 till 2010, in which where I earned my associates degree. I couldn't do too much with the degree though, which was very frustrating. Life in New Hampshire is very nice compared to where I grew up, and a lot more freedom. I moved up here in 2011 till present time. I work at a real estate company doing property management, but I'm always looking for more work.
My poker life in Conway, NH is pretty much non existent because the games in town are to juicy for me, meaning to high stakes. So since I have been up here I have played in Belmont and Hampton Falls. And have had okay results, I use to go to Belmont almost every Saturday for the free roll they had, and met some cool players and dealers and became friends with. But that maybe lasted about a year or so.
Then discovered Hampton Falls which is a great poker room like Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, with great dealers and an all around great environment. The tournaments there were very profitable, and I played the $50 mini mega, which have great deep stack structure. I use to go there once a month with some people from town and I would make a final couples tables, every time I went and the final tables would usually be like a couple grand, so they would just chop 5 ways for like 600 to 800 bucks. Which is a good pay day and better than my day job, but that high didn't last long. The next couple times I went I would be out early in the tournament but my buddy would last longer than me. While I waited for him to finish I would play let it ride and 3 card poker, which was a fun game, until NH Holdem came along. Well this was a couple years ago and since I haven't played so much poker. But I will get to more of this in the next blog, feel free to leave comments below thanks again guys.
