Re: Bob T. is in the well.
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1. Tell us about your beginning journey as a live player. How long did you stay at what limits and how long before you moved on up?
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When Canterbury opened, I decided that I wanted to win 200 Big bets at each limit before I moved up. I played 2-4 for about a month, and then moved up to 3-6, it took me a while longer to move up to 4-8. About that time, I went out to LV, and played in the employees event in the world series, at the time it was a limit holdem event. 6 people from minnesota went that year, three from Canterbury, and three form mystic, so we had a little friendly competition going to see if the cardroom, or the casino was going to be best represented. One of the other poker players that worked at mystic, but who didn't go, made a bunch of predictions that I was going to do the best of anyone from minnesota.
So we go to the event, and the first two hours, I probably went on the sickest good run of my LH career. If I had a pair, I made a set. I made a straightflush against a nut flush, AK always connected, and by the first break, I had about 6 times my starting stack, which let me pick and choose my fights against short stacks through the day.
When we got into the money, there was one canterbury guy left, and me, and when we got down to two tables, I looked around, and he was gone, so the Mystic guys won that competition. I went card dead for a long time, and had to find a place to make a stand, because I was becoming a short stack. I got into a multiway pot with KT of hearts, and the flop came AJx with two hearts. Four way action on the flop for a bunch of bets, and the flush came in on the turn, and I had enough to get to the final table. Eventually I finished fourth. So I started playing 4-8, and 6-12.
My wife was pregnant at the time, and when my son was born, he had some problems with his insulin balance, and he spent two months in the hospital and had a couple of surgeries before he was able to come home. Between all the bills, my bankroll was pretty much gone, but this was the time that online poker was beginning to get going.
I had played some online before this, but the time constraints, and limit constraints that being a new father put on my, made online a lot more convenient. I think I started playing with the goal of having 500 big bets at whatever limit I was playing at, and moved up gradually over the years. Since then, I have always been able to supplement my income from my bankroll.
Anyway, during that time, I pretty much stopped playing live, and now I have begun again, mostly playing 8-16, and taking shots at 15-30. It was one of my goals to sit in the 30-60 game sometime this summer, but I didn't do that.
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2. What was the limit that you found that there were some good players in the game?
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It was different when I started playing. I think that online, there were some good players playing as low as 2-4, and live, maybe at 6-12. I think that now, there are more good players online at even lower limits, and I don't think that there are very many good players live below 15-30.
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3. Anything about bankroll management wisdom that you can lay on us?
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First rule of gambling. If you don't bet, you can't win.
Second rule of gambling. If you don't have any chips, you can't bet.
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4. When you took shots at higher limits what did you buy in for generally?
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Live two racks. Online, whatever the standard buyin was for the site I was playing on.
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5. Favorite poker Book?
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Market Wizards. A little off topic. But it is worth reading.
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6. Angelina Jolie or Pamela Anderson?
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Angelina Jolie, and it's not close.
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