Who are you? Personal / Poker background

[milesdyson]

Name: Steve
Age: 24
Occupation: Poker now, previously structural engineer.
Location: Orange County, CA
Add'l personal info: I love to party. I have a beard now and am growing my hair back out. It's longer than in my avatar. Check me out here. I live in a 2bdr apartment with the dude pouring beer on my dome in this video.
Poker background: Long time ago, started small. Got up to consistently playing PS 10/20. Quit job. Grinded 5/10. Played drunk 100/200, lost bankroll. Got staked by two players. Slowly paid them off. Hit AP jackpot two weeks ago which pretty much repaid me for busto (ty poker gods). Paid off stakers and am now on the road to robusto.

[nickg1532]

23 years old
newly married (yes, i know. beat)
law student ( " " " ")
no kids, and hopefully this stays that way for several years
played college baseball
been playing poker now for a about three years, after being introduced by some of my college teammates.

been playing small stakes LHE (5/10 or less) for a LONNNGGG time, though it's not entirely because i suck, but mostly because i cashed out about half my bankroll recently to help w/ a down payment on a condo.

in the last few months i've tried to teach myself NLHE. i am amazing at 50NL, but i run worse than anybody at 100NL, and it makes me want to kill myself.

[sethypooh21]

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law student ( " " " ")

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Good god, man save yourself now.

[gehrig]

i dropped out of high school but then i came back and barely finsihed then i was like oh data entry temp jobs suck ill play $5 SNGs for a livign instead and then i got good at poker holla

[gehrig]

i vaguely remember listening to the director's commentary on rounders and it was like phil hellmuth and johnny chan and i think phil hellmuth was like being inspirational about how if ut hink u can do it, u should go pro and that was the poitn where i decided YEAH! i should go pro playing $5 SNGs

[gehrig]

i think i decided to go pro before i ever deposited a dollar in a poker site

how did this all work out

[timoK]

timo
24 years old
single
live in my nice huge condo in germany (I guess germany is a beat compared to most others here)

degree in business administrations.
work regular 35 hours job and I like it (no [censored], I like my job)
started poker beginning of 2004. played FR until summer 2006 than switched to shorthanded. nowadays I do 8 tabling (+EV!) at stars low limit and cash out a lot.
no need to move up if you grind out 4-figure-monthly pocketmoney

[yourface]

Nick
21 years old
engineering student
going to school in kingston, ontario. currently in toronto
I like playing basketball and volleyball but I've never been on an organized team

started playing poker in high school with a group of buddies. we played dealers choice with a 50 cent betting cap on each street. sometimes I would win enough to order chinese food afterwards, good times

started playing .5/1 full ring with a 50$ deposit and ran it up/cashed it out/redeposited a couple times on different sites. I got more serious about poker in the last year and am currently grinding out ~10k hands a month at 5/10 with some 10/20 thrown in when there are good tables

I tried NL for a while and made some money but found it boring.

[KilgoreTrout]

34
Married
No kids
R&D manager for a large medical device company
Own a little house on the biggest lot on my street
Master's degree

Made my first online deposit at Planet in January 03. Made my second deposit at Planet in January 03. Made my third... you get the picture. Moved to UB and started to figure out bits of the game. Found TOP in a local bookstore and found 2p2 from the back cover. Played at Stars when there'd be fewer than 4000 players there.

Was playing an overnight 5/10 session at Foxwoods when I heard some kid named Moneymaker won the ME. The dealer said, "you watch what happens." I said w/e.

Now I play recreationally, typically around 3K hands/week at 2/4-5/10. Used to play higher but realized that I'm either not good enough or not motivated enough. I have a separate bank account for my poker roll. I play mainly on one site but have accounts everywhere. I beat the games I play and it's fun, so that's good enough for me.

I don't post much here but this is my first stop on the forum rotation.

[MacGuyV]

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Usually these threads make me feel really old but this one hasn't managed that so far.

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Ha, I was just thinking the same thing. Add me to the 1980 club.