I started playing poker in 2004. I put $200 in a Pacific Poker account. I ran it up to $20k in the first 40 days or so. The games were ridiculously soft. I won a couple of tournaments but won most of it from cash games. Their highest limits at the time were 1/2 NL and 30/60. And the majority of it came from 1/2 NL. I was running out of upside on the site and Full Tilt was just becoming popular. I put $1000 in an account there and ran it up to $7k in a few weeks. At the time, their highest game was 5/10 NL which kind of scared me. It was filled with pros. But I ended up playing it anyway just to see if I was good enough. I started playing against guys like David Grey, John Juanda, and Layne Flack daily. And I was doing well. There were guys that would come into the game just to play against the pros, and you could pick them off. There was another guy who (and I can't remember his name) that was there daily that helped develop Microsoft Office. Super nice guy. And it was obvious that he had money. Cuz he would donk off stacks to us every day. It was a feast. I won a seat to the main event and started making a bunch of trips to Vegas. When the UIGEA was signed, I decided that I might as well just live here. The games online were already getting much tighter and live play here was still thriving.
So that's how I ended up here.
From there, I started venturing more into sports. I was getting tired of spending so much time at the tables. And now, if I play once a week, it's a lot.
