Three Years in Las Vegas

[MicroBob]

congrats on your success so far. really terrific story and my nomination for post of the year (POTY).

i'm hopefully on my way to a semi-similar type of success story via online-poker income.
january of 2003 i didnt know how to play hold-em, didnt know if a full-house beat a flush and didnt know what the terms 'muck, nuts, utg, turn or river' meant. but i did know what 1BB/hr meant from my time spent on blackjack card-counting and the BJ21.com boards so maybe i was a step ahead of you there.

my progress hasn't been quite so rapid, but i'm getting there.

my USCF is around 1400...but i've knocked off the occasional 1800 in my time (so watch out)!! havent played much chess since taking up poker though so there's no way my game is very strong now.

if/when i stabalize my income a bit more via poker i look forward to spending more time back with the 64 squares with the occasional chess-club appearance or weekend tournament.

curious if you still play chess very much (perhaps you mentioned it but i didnt notice). i know there are a couple of big tourneys in LV...i think the bigger one is around XMas, New Year's.


congrats again...great story.