Texas Hold’em Poker Sundays - Destiny’s Calling!
Many nights I have dreamed of being a professional poker player, being on national television at the final table and winning millions! This is the life that I want and why shouldn’t I be able to have it?
Week after week I see regular shmoes like myself winning these huge tournaments. So I’ve read some books and played poker online. I’ve actually found that I prefer limit texas hold’em in ring games rather then tournaments.
Sometime last summer I was playing and started with $100 which turned into $1000 by the end of the week! As my account went up so did the stakes I was playing for. Day after day I would win more and more with hardly any losing streaks. After 1 month my $100 was now $11,000! I was honestly starting to consider being a professional poker player. Then Black Saturday came along. Over a 6 hour period I lost $8,000. I couldn’t figure out how to stop the bleeding. I walked away from the computer and didn’t play for a week. In the end I was able to withdraw $4,000 before I lost it all.
I was telling some co-workers this story and they came up with the idea of giving me the money they would spend on the lottery and sports bets so that I can play poker and split the winnings with them. I had to pinch myself. People are going to give me money to play poker without any consequences and take a cut of the winnings! This must be fate.
I will be providing an update here on the Everyday Weekender every Sunday so that you can follow along to see how I’m progressing. I intend on playing twice a week, once during the week and once on the weekend. I will describe some of the big hands that I’ve played, provide some insight into player styles, and some online tips that may help you with your own poker game.
Hopefully my account balance will go up rather then down and I’ll be writing these articles for a while. Cross your fingers!
I’m looking forward to hear results:)
I’ve never played online for real money, where do you play? Playing for free online isn’t much fun because it removes the “realness” of it because you have people betting all the time as they have nothing to lose.
Right Now I’m playing on Interpoker.com. I’m trying to find a site that has enough players that I can find a game anytime I want, but not too many like PokerStar.com where every tournament has 1800 players. You are right about playing for free. People just don’t take it serious and it ruins the game. Try ScorePoker.com. It’s a sports tv station in Canada and winner win prizes rather then money so the ‘realness’ is still there.
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I can’t decide if your co-workers are shrewd investors or the biggest suckers ever! Keep us updated - sounds like quite a neat setup you’ve got going there. Have you told your parents about this plan? Mine won’t let me play online poker past 11:00pm.
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I’m not a Poker player at all so I can’t come with any piece of advice but I’m looking forward to reading your next “Dead or Alive Poker” post.
Holding my fingers crossed for you dude.
Good luck, Andy.
I suppose as a beginner, you have to learn discipline in being able to take fluctuations in your fortunes. It is good to hear you got out with the amount you did.
Your co-workers see (saw) you exercise good judgment in getting out of with winnings. Keep playing, maybe I can one day see you on the Poker Tour, and say, “I know that dude when he was just tossing in $100. Now he’s playing $1,000,000 hands.”
Thanks for the support. I hope I do well. I know I can but sometimes things just don’t go your way. I’ll have to wait and see, but hopefully I’ll make a good run.
Best to you in this adventure. I tried to convince my wife that it would be good for me to immerse myself in playing online and at the casinos so I could play poker for a living. She didn’t think that was such a good idea.
The last time I was in Vegas I gave a little money to someone else to play, unfortunately it didn’t work out but he had a better chance than I did.