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Originally Posted by Breanne1
Hi roush whats your story, are you a gay male? Pro player, part time player, share something with us. Its really nice to see more glbt players recreational or professional come into the community. Tell us a juicy story!
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Yes I am a gay male. My real name is Tom and I'm 25 years old and from Buffalo,NY. I'm not a professional poker player but have aspirations to be one and truly love the game. I really wanted to go pro and before black friday I had started to really focus on my game and put a lot of work in to get to that point. After loosing my bankroll on FTP I got pretty discouraged and stopped playing until recently.
More recently (around January/February) I really got sick of the life that I was living. I realized that I was 25 years old and was very unhappy with about every aspect of my life. I had pretty much stopped playing poker and I was still struggling with being gay. I had decided that this year I was going to make some changes and come out of the closet as well as get back into poker again and try and make it to Vegas for the WSOP.
I was really surprised to read that Jason had come out of the closet and was very interested to read his blog. After reading his blog and listening to him on the 2+2 podcast I was really amazed to see how similar his story was to what I had been threw and felt. Jason was also kind enough to listen to me and give me some advice which helped a ton. I just recently came out to most of the people that I know and have been happier then I can ever remember.
I also started to play online poker again. I started with $30 and have been grinding DoN's on merge. They aren't the most exciting things to play but with such a small bankroll I figured it was a good place to start. The plan is to grind up enough money so I can go play some of the Venetian deepstack events and possibly a few satellites for a 1k event. I never had a chance to go to Vegas to play a WSOP event and it's been a dream of mine to go play in ond but I would be ecstatic just to be able to go and grind some deepstack events at the Venetian.
I've never had any gay friends or had a boyfriend before so the next step I'm taking is to put myself out there and meet some new people. I've joined a couple sites and hope to meet some new people that I can be friends with or with some luck enter a relationship with.