Thursday, May 28, 2009 - P0ker H0
I can’t even try to tell you all the great things poker has brought me. Friendship has to be #1; from Aruba to Vegas, Canada to Costa Rica I have been able to meet some of the nicest people from all over the world. 6 years ago I went to my first Aruba trip and to this day i consider the people i met there some of my closest friends in the world. People like the GREAT Legggggggggggy, knucklehead, Brsavage, Fatcats, Cunningham, Krazykanuck and Westtexasman. These are players that when I first started out i looked up to and watched play for hours on end.Then when I got to Aruba and got to meet them, it was one of the best experiences of my life. But after that, it really started to snowball with every Aruba after. Every time I go to Aruba the list keeps getting longer and longer. I can’t even come close to telling you what these friendships have meant to me. In poker the money will come and go ” for me it go’s faster than it comes” but the real prize pool for me, are the friends. Last week I had 40 players fly/drive into Madison to play in a couple of small tournaments at my bar. To have players come from Oregon, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois to play in a 10 dollar re buy meant a lot to me. I want to thank the Rounder’s guys Ace, Lake and Nikki, Susie Q and her Crew, my good buddies Debo, his buds Curt and Steve, Wisco, Low__chicago, Big Sh00ter. I can’t wait till September when we do it all over again. Maybe I can get Debo and Victor to pay their 2k bar tab then 
. I also want to say hi to all my friends that work behind the scenes at UB; the hard working people in Costa Rica without them there would be no UB. Thank you guys hope to cay all soon. And to the hardest working lady in poker Joanne she is the glue that holds it all together. Thank you Jo Jo!!!
With the WSOP starting up this week. Things are starting to get a little nuts. I start with the WSOP Academy this weekend where I will be teaching at Caesars, Saturday and Sunday with Mark Seif. Then on June 5-6 I’ll be teaching at the Lady’s Camp with Annie Duke and FBI profiler Joe Navaro. And then on June 29 – July 1st the WSOP Pimer with Annie, Greg Raymer, Phil Gordon and the GREAT Phil Hellmuth. If you’re gonna be in Vegas I highly recommend attending one of these. They really are life changing weekends for anybody who wants to take their game to the next level. Then in between camps there in a little thing called the WSOP. I can’t wait!!! To be around these great players all month and then be able to play poker at the WSOP on top of it. This is gonna be a really good month for P0ker H0.
Tags: Annie Duke, Aruba, Ceasar's, P0ker H0, Phil Hellmuth, poker players, Poker Poker Poker, Vegas, WSOP, WSOP Academy
Comments (2)
Saturday, December 27, 2008 - Scorpian126
A poker story…
When I was 20 years old I started playing Poker because of my father’s influence, I used to watch him play and that is how my interest for Poker began. My dad used to be a good card player. I used to work in a Plant for 5 years and one day when Christmas came I saw my father play and I thought “I am going to play poker, I need some extra money”. I learned on this game that when you can afford to save money, that is playing poker. In poker you are waiting for decent cards to play, a good advice is to be patient and wait for some players to step out and then you play your hand.
That night I started playing Poker and I never asked my dad how to play, we never talked about me playing, and I just sat there and the first hand I played was AQ suited and I was playing Limit, which is my favorite game, I had $200 invested and I made a nut flush but a buddy of mine was playing as well… I bet, and he raises me, and I thought “I’m sure he has a Full House!” and he ended up winning the hand! So I am sitting there with $70 and I am waiting for good cards to come to me and the end of the night I got my $200 back plus $50!
The day after that my father asked me if I wanted to go again with them. They used to play on Friday and Saturday night. We played from 6-12mn, and that was the closing time for this place where we were located and the Poker game had to stop, so at that moment I won $500 more and I just enjoyed it so much and I was doing just fine, so, in 2 months I paid everything I owed and I bought a really nice car. A month later a quit my job and started playing from 5-6 nights a week.
Later on I had some personal situations I needed to deal with first and I stopped playing Poker for quite some time, maybe a year. After a while I began playing again and the first hand was a KJ suited, 3 other people were in and I folded. Why? Well, another player raised the maximum and he was a good player (or so I noticed during the time we were sitting at the table), but guess what? I folded. A friend of mine asked me: “Why did you not play with that hand?” And I said: “I don’t know this people but I can tell he is a good player and it’s better if you start knowing your opponents and taking mental notes on them. At the end I would have never won the hand, the winner had 3 Kings, so my “feeling” did not betray me and I ended up winning $100, so it was ok.
After some time, I moved to online poker, I wanted to see what they had to offer, so I began playing online on Poker Stars and I only invested like $300, then a buddy of mine told me about UB on 2005, and told me that this site was very good so I started playing here, and I could definitely confirm that this is not only a good poker site, it is the best one for me in the Poker Industry. I met many good players back then and I realized that placing notes on the players is very important at the moment you sit at a table with them, just like on live events, but with technical tools.
Then RAI$E was launched, I enjoyed it very much and still do, even when I was already happy by playing here. One of the things I like the most about the new Loyalty Program are the UB Auctions. I am currently one of the highest bidders there and I love the competition by bidding away and one of the best things I have done by using the UB Auctions is that I got all my family Christmas presents! They were so happy about it and I certainly was I as well, come on! Using your Ultimate Points at the UB Auctions is the best way to go! RAI$E also came with the VIP Service that has always been very good and helpful with any needs I may have. I have my own personal VIP Host, and I can say that things have been easier since I tried this new benefit. I definitely love and recommend to play at UB to all players, this is where the real deal is at! They care…
Tags: poker players, Rai$e Loyalty Club, Rai$e VIP Team
Comments (0)
