Alright... where do I begin, well I suppose ill start at the beginning.

As a child in the early 2000's my family owned a casino, my uncle would go on to acquire stakes in upwards of 6+ casinos from the time I was in preschool to around the time I was hitting middle-school, so naturally I was intrigued by the industry, yet I understood very little about it. One day my dad tells me that he is going to be working part time in the casino in the poker room, and on that day I was first introduced to the game. Over the next few years we watched what was on tv at the time (I think WPT was the main show featuring poker) and I loved it, just the overall vibe of the game and once I learned that skill was involved it just became more and more intriguing. As time went by and poker got more and more popular I eventually got him to deposit online to a site that was actually ran by Gus Hansen (you have to be an OG to remember this site). So like many other stories you have heard there I was as a child playing against grown men and eventually crushing them, my dad of course wasn't complaining as I slowly racked up a few grand in profits over the couple years I played at that time. I really loved the game but I was too young to be able to take it seriously and once I hit Jr high and high-school I kind of lost all the time and ability to play it, although I still loved watching the game and very much had the interest in playing in the future... my poker dreams were put on hold. I know hindsight is 50/50 or whatever that quote is but out of everything that annoys me this is one of them... being a few years too young literally cost me the chance to take advantage of the softest and easiest money I could have ever made, but hey ill take the youth over the few million I guess.


Fast forward 10 years to the year 2016, I am now 22, in Vegas for the second time (the first time was for my 21st and I was somehow so blasted I never ran into a poker room) and I discover that live NLH cash games are a thing, I literally remember the conversation and the guy who told me about them and everything... I just remember feeling that same excitement I had felt as a kid and that I was going to be moving to Vegas. How did I not know about the cash game scene in Vegas? Well tbh I had mostly only ever played tournaments online and I of course knew that cash games existed, however, in my state and town they only had low limit fixed limit games that were literally garbage, so for whatever reason I had just assumed that it was like that everywhere. So anyways... there I am at around 2 am on the Vegas strip, outside Taco EL guardo (spellcheck ffs I'm a local who forgot that name already rip) realizing that my life is about to be dedicated to this beautiful city named Las Vegas and that I was about to begin my poker journey once again.


So here I am at 22, with only a few thousand dollars, no car (that will make it to Vegas) a dream, and lots of ideas on a plane to the middle of a Nevada desert . My overall poker experience at the time was played from around the ages of 8-12 online and briefly over the last few years both live and on underground online sites, but I had crushed everything I had played with time and wasn't planning on making poker my primary income as I had planned on finding a job immediately. So I land in Vegas, pay for a few weeks of hotels, and head downtown... I will NEVER forget how heavy my luggage was, I literally brought everything I had in a giant hockey bag and without a car I was forced to carry it through the airports and everywhere those first few weeks. So I get a job immediately, (honestly this is one of the best parts about Vegas if you are considering moving here is the job industry and amount of things you can do). So what was the job? LOL, well my dumb ass thought that the best thing to do was try and get hired by the biggest company I could get my foot into and try and work my way up by pimping the system ( I was wrong for the right reasons) so I take the first thing that's offered and that's as a manager of a time sales staff through one of the big casinos (to this day I wonder how tf or why they hired someone so young and with no experience to manage old timeshare salesman). As terrible as the job was and as bad as I was at it it made me really go out of my comfort zone and I was able to get a cheap apartment pretty close to downtown Vegas. So now that I was settled in with a decent job and place to live, I told myself that I need to get playing poker immediately as it was the whole reason I had moved out here to begin with, I put in my first ever session in Vegas at the Golden Nugget, won maybe 1.5-2 buy ins, felt great about life and was going to make that my daily routine... until I got home. So, part of the problem with moving to Vegas as you guys could obviously tell was that I was not nearly rolled enough to be playing even 1-2, that first session despite winning made me realize that just a couple bad sessions and I would literally have to go home... so I made one of the best decisions I had ever made, I fired up every unregulated site I could find and started grinding 6 max cash games for the first time in my life. So there I was... sitting in downtown Vegas, with sirens, crackheads, millionaires, homeless people living in the sewers below the strip, the most beautiful women in the entire world, just everything you could ever imagine balled up into one small but giant city... playing micro stakes online poker, and you know what? It was pretty fun, but I needed more.


Alright that's enough typing for now see you guys next post and hopefully ill catch up to the present day lol.