I started my little poker carier back in September 2006. Before that I even didn't know poker rules. One day I saw WSOP 2006 on ESPN and I got hooked up. Seemed to be easy and I thought that would be easy money for me. But I got my lesson pretty soon. After depositing for like a fifth time on poker.com, I realized that this is not a game of chance. I realized that all the stuff I saw on TV is not that easy. Lucky me, I decided to read some poker books before I lose even more money. After reading couple of them, I finally won some 100+ players tournament, winning my first major win. And finally getting out of the hole. Finally I saw a light out of the dark. I thought maybe I got just lucky in that one, but after winning some SNG's in a couple next days I noticed that I'm getting better at reading people and folding when I actually hold very good hand, but I think the other player has a monster. I would say folding was my best part of the game. I started cutting losses in hands where I felt that I was beat, what I never was able to do before. Only in my 5th month of playing poker I won WPT seat worth $12,500 on poker.com. That was a shocker for everyone. And especially for myself. Some people play their whole life and can't win tournament like this, but I just did it even though couple months ago I had no idea about poker hand strenghts...However, poker.com were not able to register me due to new US government rules and I had to go register myself for that tournament. I went to Vegas to play in Mandalay Bay Tournament, but I was late with my registration. Since WSOP was coming to Las Vegas in a few days, I decided to play in first WSOP 2007 tournament. I came to Rio to register and I was shocked. Thousands of people waiting in line. There were two lines. After waiting couple hours in a shorter one I almost flipped out after one guy asked in which casino did I work. Appearantly I was standing in a Casino Dealers Tournament Only line. Great. That was enough bad luck for one week and I had no patience to stand for extra 10 hours in another line and my WPT/ WSOP dreams had to be put on hold until next year. The trip turned out not to be that bad. I visited almost all poker rooms in Vegas. I had only a few days left, so I decided that I would check as many poker rooms as I could. I played more live poker in one week than in my entire life. Since I don't drink, I even didn't visit any bars or any night clubs. That was 3rd trip to Vegas, so I have seen most of the shows already and I wasn't interested in them at all. I can tell you one thing- there is a lot of fish in Vegas. You can go fishing and you can finish a day with a few hundred dollars of free money. Of course there are a lot of sharks, who are eating the fish money too. You gotta pick your spot where to play and how to play...
After I came back home, I continued playing online. I play most in the tournaments and only after 1700 tournament I finally started really going up on my money chart. There were ups and downs, but the chart started steadily going north. Around my 2400 tournament I finally started winning at least one daily major poker.com tournament a week. I fell in love with daily Deepstack tournament, where you pay $109 and you actually are playing against best players on this site. The tournament is very good, because you can actually play poker. You can pick your bluffs and you don't need only best cards to win the hand. I hate playing against bad players, because unless you always have better cards you can actually win. They would call all the way with the lowest pair, even if there are 4 overcards on the board and it's impossible to bluff anyone. But on other hand they feed you with chips, if you catch a monster...There aren't to many fish players in Deepstack and it's a lot of fun there. I play it as often as I can. So far I have won 19 Deepstack tournaments. Placed in money even more than that. But I don't count my second place finishes. If I'm playing tournament, I'm not playing just to make the money. I'm playing for the first place...
I do play in life tournaments also. Back in November 2006 I brainstormed idea of having a little home poker club. Few months after we had our first tournament. We were not trying to grow, we just wanted to keep the steady amount of people playing with us. Currently we are running a league and we are sending 2 first places to $1500 WSOP 2008 tournament. We do not accept any new members, we just want to have friendly atmosphere and don't want to have any strangers.
That's it for now.
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