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I started playing poker in 2004 during my last semester of college after a buddy showed me that you could play for real money on the internet. I had a slow start and lost multiple and 0 deposits in Sit n’ Goes and small stakes cash games on PokerRoom. Then, the summer after I graduated and shortly before starting my new job in corporate banking, I decided to get serious and bought a few poker books. I was tired of being a fish so I began spending all of my spare time at night studying and playing poker. After a couple months of beating $.5/ Limit Hold’em, I moved up to / and / where I stayed for a while before starting to learn No-Limit. Read More
Dusty Schmidt has played nearly 7 million hands of online poker over more than 10,000 hours during his five-year career. He’s won over million during that period, and has never experienced a losing month. In 2007, he achieved Poker Stars’ SuperNova Elite status in just eight months while playing high-stakes cash games exclusively. Dusty posted the world’s highest win rate in both 5/10 NL and 10/20 NL in both 2007 and 2008. In a four-month period between Nov. 2007 and Feb. 2008, he won in excess of 0,000 in high-stakes cash games. Read More
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I got into poker around the same time everyone else was getting into it, right after the Chris Moneymaker boom. During this time I was going to college and I would get together with a group of friends to play a small home game on the weekends. I was pretty terrible at first but it didn’t take long for me to catch on, and when I get interested in something I strive to become good at it. I started playing freerolls on Party Poker and then decided that I should take a shot at playing with real money. I did alright at first, but found myself re-depositing repeatedly soon after. I then moved to Ultimate Bet and started playing low stakes Sit n’ Goes recreationally. I found that I was sucking less and less each day, and began building somewhat of a bankroll. Read More
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I am a 23 year-old professional poker player from Milwaukee, WI. I started playing poker at the play money tables and freerolls on Planet Poker in 2004 when I was only 17. Eventually I convinced my parents to let me use their credit card to make a real money deposit of $20 and I haven't looked back. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with a degree in finance in 2008. While holding part time jobs during both high school and college, poker has always been my main source of income. While I play almost exclusively cash games, my most successful day as a poker player was when I won the Pokerstars VIP promotional freeroll tournament in 2008. The prize was $20,000 cash, entrance to the $5,000 WCOOP ME on pokerstars, and supernova elite status for 1 year. I feel that my strongest poker attributes are putting in many hours, playing a lot of tables and avoiding tilt. Read More
I became involved in poker after randomly meeting Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt on a golf trip with some mutual friends. A few months later during the worst downswing of his life (at the time) he hired me to see what I could do for him. After 5 months of work, and 4 of the biggest winning months of his career, I was asked to become a coach at another poker training site and before even knowing what a poker forum was, I had one. Nearly 2 years later I’ve produced 18 in-depth videos that have helped thousands of members while Dusty has gone on to earn over million a year for the last three years from poker. Read More
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I graduated in Dec. 2005 from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC, with a degree in management. I finished college on a Saturday and started work for my stepdad’s roofing company in Simpsonville on Monday. It was a great job by most any standard. But I found myself jealous of friends who had far worse jobs than mine, because they’d earned the positions themselves. Read More
I'm twenty-two, I grew up in Alexandria, VA and went to school at Coastal Carolina University to pursue a degree in psychology. I worked hard for 1.5 semesters before deciding that poker was too good of an opportunity to pass up. So I moved home for a few months and then to Burlington, VT to harbor my interest in skiing along with my new-found career. I got a job teaching skiing part-time for a little extra stimulation and exercise, I loved that with the exception of being a bit of a corporate slave. At this point, I was playing mostly 6max cash on Full Tilt. I started out killing / No-Limit cash, but when I moved out I was blindsided by the impact of being financially independent and began moving down in stakes to make sure I was playing well and not risking too much. Read More
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Unlike most online poker professionals, I started playing seriously before the poker boom. When my friend began hosting a home game twice a week, I borrowed every poker book in the library. Before my first session, I read an 80 page primer that essentially said, “Play tight and aggressive. Bet when you have it; fold when you don’t.” That advice served me well. After cutting my teeth in a Dealer’s Choice home game, I went on to play mid-stakes Limit Hold'em, Stud, Hi-Lo, and a wild and deep $5/10 No Limit game. This was live poker, and the games were flush with money from the internet boom. Winning was easy. Read More
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I've been playing poker professionally since the beginning of 2006. I realized that I was making more money from poker than I was likely to make from a potential career in astrophysics, so I dropped out of school to play poker full-time. I played a number of games seriously that year, but focused mainly on Limit Hold'em. I was doing well in the 30/60 games for a while but after the UIGEA passed, I found the LHE games were starting to dry up so I transitioned to Pot-Limit Omaha. I've been playing PLO as my main game since early 2007 and have a solid win rate at stakes varying from 1/2 through 10/20. Read More
I first learned poker in 2003, when a friend from high school told me you could actually play poker for money on the internet. I struggled for a year before finally reading Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players, and then won a tournament for $3,000. I lost about $1,500 of that back before establishing myself as a winning Sit n’ Go and limit Hold’em player. I played $5/$10 limit and $50 SNGs for 6 months before moving up to $10/$20 and $15/$30 limit. I didn't plan on playing poker for a living, but my college roommate talked me into taking a road trip to about 30 national parks right after we graduated. At that point, my then girlfriend still had a year of college, so I decided to wait another year before getting a "real" job. I played $15/$30 for about 8 months before moving into some of the highest games online at the time - $100/$200 to $300/$600 limit. I realized then that it would be in my best interest to stick with poker for a while. Read More
I started playing poker seven years ago in a $5 buy in sit-n-go home game with college students when I was sixteen. A combination of quick math skills, my competitive nature, and most importantly luck helped me dominate these casual games. Beating people four years older sure made me feel like a poker prodigy. I then bought Doyle’s Super System and learned what a continuation bet was. Coincidentally, continuation betting was all I needed to beat the $2/$5 No-Limit cash game at a local casino. In my first two live sessions I made over 1.5k which swelled my poker ego. After a few more successful sessions, I began to assume that poker was a bottomless oil well and squandered my 3k of winnings on an ipod, a digital camera, and clothes among other things. In my next year I continued to play underage at the casino where I broke even. Read More
Bill Robertie has spent his life playing and writing about chess, backgammon, and poker. While attending Harvard he became a chess master and helped the team win several intercollegiate titles. After graduating he won a number of chess tournaments, including the United States Championship at speed chess in 1970. He also established a reputation at blindfold chess, giving exhibitions on as many as eight boards simultaneously. In 1976 he switched from chess to backgammon, becoming one of the top players in the world. His major titles include the World Championship in Monte Carlo in 1983 and 1987, the Black & White Championship in Boston in 1979, the Las Vegas tournaments in 1980 and 2001, the Bahamas Pro-Am in 1993, and the Istanbul World Open in 1994. Read More
I started my professional career as an IT Consultant with Accenture in 1997. In the summer of 2003, I was working in Hyderabad, India opening an offshore development center for my client Microsoft. After a year of 70-80 hour weeks toiling in India to climb the corporate ladder, I was very susceptible to the dream of the “Moneymaker Boom,” which I witnessed on TV. In 2004, despite the great success and growth of the India development center, I came back to find that others whom had sacrificed much less were being rewarded and promoted ahead of me. With the poker boom in full swing and my growing disillusionment with “working for the man,” I started to really focus on the game. Read More
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I was always a bit fascinated with poker and had read a small book or two on it long before I ever got a chance to try playing. Then one day in 2004, a friend told me about Party Poker and I created an account. I knew very little about it at that point, but I bought a book on Limit Hold’em, joined a poker forum, and began to work very hard on my game. I deposited 0 and lost that rather quickly in the $.50/ limit games, but I decided to give poker one more 0 shot and that one stuck. I started to see the hard work pay off and worked up a nice bankroll for the / limit games. Given my circumstances at that point, I felt that playing professionally was the best option since my poker hourly rate was double that of my 9 to 5 job. From there I played about a million hands of limit Hold’em and saw good results. Read More
My poker playing career began as a graduate student pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering. Graduate school in a complex degree can be stressful and monotonous in the extreme, so one night when a friend invited me to play poker at a local home game I was thrilled for the excuse to blow off homework. As a career student my first thought was, “I need to go get a book and learn how this game works.” Although the first book I got was worthless, the second book I read was Sklansky’s “Theory of Poker.” I quickly found 2+2 publishing on line and when our weekly games petered out I was already looking into online play. Read More
Stosh McConnell became interested in poker after seeing it on ESPN in late 2003. In college at the time, with little money at his dispense, he poured himself into studying the game to satisfy his poker cravings. After a solid year of reading up on the game, he was finally able to start playing online in the summer of 2004 when he saw an ad for a free $50 offer on Party Poker. Stosh grew that initial small amount slowly, moving up the cash game ranks without ever having to deposit a single cent of his own money. Since then, poker has been his sole source of income, and become a passion he truly enjoys. Read More
Hey guys, my name is Eric and I've been playing poker for the past 6 years. I started out in college home games with friends, just $5 and 10$ buy-ins with really cheap blinds that we'd play all night for fun. Once I realized I was better than most of my friends, I decided to try things out online where I started one-tabling $10NL on Pacific Poker. Over the next 2 years I slowly worked my way through the limits up to $1/$2 NL all while playing just one table. Eventually some of my friends told me about Full Tilt Poker where you can multi-table, so I moved over there to try it out. Read More
I started playing poker late 2005. I had seen it on TV and one day my friends suggested we start up our own game. I was working on and off as an actor at that time and it was the psychology of poker which first attracted me to the game. The thrill of telling a fictitious story convincingly and getting someone to call or fold when they shouldn't is a lot of fun. Read More
I started playing poker somewhere around 2000. In my first couple of sessions playing 7-Card Stud in Las Vegas I didn’t do too well. I talked to a guy next to me, and he was nice enough to give me a little advice... “try to only play good hands”. He also told me that when he comes to Las Vegas he was usually able to pay for the vacation through playing poker. This was enough to get it through to me that poker was a beatable game and I set out to figure out how to do just that. Read More
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