lol

cool stories and you are a good writer and all that but you degen'd so much $ away

every time you felt like going busto or hitting rock bottom you should have had some one way transfer into a share fund or something that you could instantly do, so the money would be "gone" in a sense that you couldn't touch it and you would be free, and then in X years time when you grow up you would have a war chest which by the sounds of it would be in the hundreds of thousands...

Hey Chuck, are you the drummer from Simple Plan !?

Close, but no cigar.

Just wanted to chime in to say that I've got the next volume almost written. However I think I'm going to publish them all in one piece at the same time. I'm going to Deauville next week for the EPT, one week in a secluded French ghost town with nothing to do after you've busted (can't play online either because .com sites don't work in France), so I'm going to complete the whole thing there. Expect the whole saga to be finished in less than two weeks. My guesstimate is that it'll be 3-5 volumes of the same length they've been thus far, depending on how rambley I get.

Funny story: I binked a live tournament in Ireland a few months back, and CardPlayer was there doing a standard winner's interview for the CardPlayer Europe magazine. Their last question was something like "is there something else we don't know about you?", and I pointed them at this thread figuring that it could potentially give them decent material for the story. They ended up not just doing a winner's interview, but expanded it to a multi-page story based on this. I haven't seen the magazine yet, but it turns out I'm also the cover boy for the February issue As a minus side they used old photos that were shot for another purposes when I was extremely hungover like a year ago and as a result I look almost obese in the cover. The one time I get my face on a paper, sigh. Anyway, lesson: never underestimate the power of 2+2!

lame

Congrats Chuck! Keep up the GW with the stories, very entertaining.

I have a copy of the magazine Miika, good read

Nice to hear that, good luck in Deauville !

thats what i like to hear i cant wait to read the rest and grats on the irish victory

Only result on Hendon Mob database for you in Ireland is a "€ 100 Blind Mans Bluff - World Championship" for €900 (prizepool was 1900 so only 19 entrants), they do a winner's interview for that?

Yeah (they have a video interview somewhere on youtube too), it's apparently the only tournament in the world where they play that game and therefore the official world championship of indian/blind poker and the Irish are crazy about it for some reason. Some guys skipped the main to play it. The rail for that was bigger than when I won 100k from a Finnish donkament and I got a cool trophy too Who cares about money when you can win Irish glory and trophies! But yeah I think it adds hilariousity to the story that it was just a 100€ donkament which I late regged on the last second possible with 0 idea how the game even works

Hi there, just finished reading your story (8 am here, lol) and I am pretty much stunned I'm completely different poker player than you are - I don't gamble, don't tilt, don't take sick shots, on the other hand I'm far less ambitious and hard-working than you are. Having said that, I can easily relate to most of the sick degen-balla-drunken lifestyle stories - your "life mindset" is pretty similar to mine You haven't finished your story yet, but since I know you turned out fine in the end, I hope I'll be ok as well Greeting from Poland, country where you can be a baller playing 100nl for a living.

Hey man, I totally love your story and the way you write...
I talked about the way you started out playing poker in an article in my blog (which is in spanish btw), talking about coming back after a big downsing, an area where you make a great example.
I hope you dont mind!
If you have some questions I invite you to check out the article. I dont know if posting links here is considered spam, if it is just tell me and Ill remove the link

Blog:


Keep your volumes coming man!
Cheers

Lol

You know what I mean by this - I tilt far less than avarage poker player (because I just don't really care about the result), which gives me pretty big advantage, since I play HU.

Your story is almost better than story of some hooker I read in local czech forum(no offence she was excelent writer). She in two years work out bunch of money, binked some rich customer and married him, give birth to child, conquer menonly forum about sex experience and gets over about 20 bans, divorced and disappeared, left behind excelent blog on forum (in small pieces).
I hope you will continue in writing and better end of course. But you know, only for story purpose, is better to die young.