Hi I found out this article from cardplayer from november 2005 and would like to share it because it was very interesting.
http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/15105
It's his story from when he began poker in the late 70's, about being broke and going to California when they first legalized poker. He say in the article "I'm telling you, that boom was the biggest boom poker has ever seen," he exclaimed. "It made today's boom look like nothing."
So there's a couple of other story and toward the end he gives good advice to be a sucessfull poker player, from his experience.