Hello Two Plus Two readers,

I am Card08Shark "The Mad Money Poker Genius!" I have been on a wild journey as have most of you! I am here to share a little of my story and see where it goes from there... Starting at the age of 17 I really found a drive and a passion to become successful at No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Having a natural ability at the game, a sheer raw talent.. I had no problem falling in love! I found myself just pushing and pushing at the pots aggressively.. time and time again I would hit the wall and try again.

Since I had such an overwhelming passion for the game, I never wanted to give up! Telling myself I'm going to keep on trying until I'm the best and no one can stop me.. I started picking up poker books and reading them front to back, while rereading some of the greats. By the time I was 19, I had read at least five poker books and tens and tens of thousands of hands experience! When I started my poker journey online I came up with the username CardShark... Typed it into the username box and clicked it into existence! You can only begin to imagine what happened next.. Well, red letters came up on the screen that said username already exists! The emotions, the disappointment, the frustration... All flew through my body like no other! I just couldn't believe my name was already used!

After calming down and giving it some hard thinking, after all... I wanted a name that would stick with me for life and that would lead to my success as a poker player.. It was the year 2008 and by this point I considered myself a dominating force at the poker table. A force to be reckoned with! I decided CardShark08, right away I was like no way! The masterful, the futures greatest of his time..., Card08Shark was born. This was to become the name that would stick with me now and forevermore! My legacy is in the making and I'm destined to be one of the greats.

As the new and upcoming poker prodigy, I took down a tourney of 3600 people and turned a dime into a dozen. I new history was in the making! I started reading more books, playing more games, calling people when I knew I was losing and taking a guess at their hands.. just to see if I was right. Years went by and I was making foolish decisions through my twenties and into my thirties. At the same time as starting a family around 25 years old. Things were in route, just not going as expected. Absolutely love my family and wouldn't change them for the world. Even the foolish decisions had some merit to a degree. It taught me not to worry if I blew my money in a poker game. I was financially unstable and my decisions were questionable to the extreme!

Going through this journey, I have just now started to change my mistakes and prepare for a better future. After getting my decision making under control and getting my mental health figured out to a stable place. I was back at it in 2021 turning a small buy in into a WSOP main event seat! My ultimate dream in life besides having my kids had come true! My dear readers and friends, I have lived up to and fulfilled my dreams! I am to myself, considered accomplished! My next dream/goal is to go back to the WSOP and cash.

To keep these dreams going and alive, I will then continue to go back until I make it to the final table and then make it one more time and take the whole thing down for a first place WSOP bracelet! Would I love more than ever for someone or anyone or more of you to follow me on this journey to success as a poker player! My dream is not to become a poker pro or an ambassador of a site! My dream is here and now..., I am The Mad Money Poker Genius!

To some this all up till this day, I have read 37 powerful poker books, played a quarter million plus hands! 18 years experience and counting.., on top of a raw natural ability to play No-limit hold'em and the ability to put players on specific hands! I can remember times that I specifically have done so with many more I can't even recall. I was sitting there 12 years ago with the mother of my children before we had kids. It was a heads up game and I looked her dead in the I and said "I'm going to guess your hand right now!" She said "okay!?" I looked away, thought for a moment and was thinking... JJ,QQ,or KK I was like she's not a King so she pry doesn't have them. Her expression on her face was to good to be a measly set of Jack's. I declared out loud to her "pocket queens!" Her reply was priceless... she said.. no f'in way you're f in cheating... you seen my cards! I said nope and that was that.. she flipped over queens. My dear friends at that moment, my life changed forever! I starting calling out more and more peoples hands, nailing it with precise accuracy. I became so confident in my reading ability! I have many more stories to share with all of you as my journey proceeds! Feel fee to look me up and keep tabs! I would love for nothing more than a fan base of followers! I'm at ground zero right now, starting from scratch.., the poker world has evolved in my time as a poker beast and I'm still going to rise to the occasion and take the field by storm!


Yours truly,

Card08Shark
"The Mad Money Poker Genius"