scottc25
07-28-2006, 12:14 PM
Through the Poker Stars thing you filled out asking if it is OK to have local media contact you. The Tampa Tribune did an interview with me. I wonder if they published the picture, otherwise it was 45 minutes of pictures in the Poker Stars suite for nothing!
http://www.tbo.com/life/MGBVKZWM5QE.html
If Poker Player Plays Cards Right, He Could Win Millions
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By PHILIP MORGAN The Tampa Tribune
Published: Jul 28, 2006
cut,12p2 Photo by ROB GRACIE of IMPDI
Scott Carlson of Tampa begins his quest this weekend to win $10 million on the "World Series of Poker." The tournament is played at the Rio casino in Las Vegas.
TAMPA - Scott Carlson hopes to win $10 million playing poker next month. That way, he can get serious about the game.
The 33-year-old Tampa man says he would make a career out of traveling the poker circuit.
"No more day-to-day job, that's for sure," says Carlson, an auditor for a title insurance company.
He learned to play on the Internet just six years ago and won his way into the the main event of the "World Series of Poker," which starts this weekend at the Rio casino in Las Vegas and continues through Aug. 10. It's scheduled to air on ESPN in a 12-episode series starting at 8 p.m. Aug. 22.
Married and the father of a 4-month-old son, Carlson says he has loved gambling all his life.
"I think it's mainly the competitiveness," he says.
In high school, he bet on fantasy football. He took up poker, he says, because it's more a game of skill. It requires an accurate reading of other players, their betting patterns and how they act when they're winning, losing or bluffing.
The main event this year, sponsored by the PokerStars online poker site, will unfold over a series of 12- to 14-hour days. Carlson, who will be competing against thousands, tries to stay mentally sharp by keeping physically fit - eating the right foods and getting enough exercise.
Making it to the World Series of Poker is his biggest win so far, he says. He won the $10,000 entrance fee in a PokerStar online qualifying tournament.
"If I can finish in the cash in the tournament - the top 10 percent - I would consider that a success. Anything after that is gravy."
Making it to the final nine would pay him $1 million or more.
Carlson says his wife, Tanya, supports his gaming life completely.
"She says go out and win enough money, so I can quit my job."
But he has met a number of players who have been broke a lot of times. The only way to stay out of trouble, he says, is to keep separate bank accounts: one for bills and the other for poker. He deposits his winnings in his poker account and never draws gambling money from the other account.
"Having an accounting background, money means too much to me to do that."
http://www.tbo.com/life/MGBVKZWM5QE.html
If Poker Player Plays Cards Right, He Could Win Millions
Skip directly to the full story.
By PHILIP MORGAN The Tampa Tribune
Published: Jul 28, 2006
cut,12p2 Photo by ROB GRACIE of IMPDI
Scott Carlson of Tampa begins his quest this weekend to win $10 million on the "World Series of Poker." The tournament is played at the Rio casino in Las Vegas.
TAMPA - Scott Carlson hopes to win $10 million playing poker next month. That way, he can get serious about the game.
The 33-year-old Tampa man says he would make a career out of traveling the poker circuit.
"No more day-to-day job, that's for sure," says Carlson, an auditor for a title insurance company.
He learned to play on the Internet just six years ago and won his way into the the main event of the "World Series of Poker," which starts this weekend at the Rio casino in Las Vegas and continues through Aug. 10. It's scheduled to air on ESPN in a 12-episode series starting at 8 p.m. Aug. 22.
Married and the father of a 4-month-old son, Carlson says he has loved gambling all his life.
"I think it's mainly the competitiveness," he says.
In high school, he bet on fantasy football. He took up poker, he says, because it's more a game of skill. It requires an accurate reading of other players, their betting patterns and how they act when they're winning, losing or bluffing.
The main event this year, sponsored by the PokerStars online poker site, will unfold over a series of 12- to 14-hour days. Carlson, who will be competing against thousands, tries to stay mentally sharp by keeping physically fit - eating the right foods and getting enough exercise.
Making it to the World Series of Poker is his biggest win so far, he says. He won the $10,000 entrance fee in a PokerStar online qualifying tournament.
"If I can finish in the cash in the tournament - the top 10 percent - I would consider that a success. Anything after that is gravy."
Making it to the final nine would pay him $1 million or more.
Carlson says his wife, Tanya, supports his gaming life completely.
"She says go out and win enough money, so I can quit my job."
But he has met a number of players who have been broke a lot of times. The only way to stay out of trouble, he says, is to keep separate bank accounts: one for bills and the other for poker. He deposits his winnings in his poker account and never draws gambling money from the other account.
"Having an accounting background, money means too much to me to do that."