Me

I have been playing poker for about 6 years now. I think I have always been drawn to gambling (although poker is about ALL skill!!! Lol). I remember my granddad playing cards as a kid and my dad uses to race greyhounds and I loved going to the track. I first tried to enter a casino at the age of 21 in Arizona and due to the fact that we had been caught on camera drinking whilst walking to the entrance they wouldn’t let us in!!! Crazy as surely it helps them take more money off people if they are blotter. That meant the next time I had a chance to go was in Australia whilst I was travelling there. It was definitely worth the wait. My first time was in Melbourne and it was The Crown. The whole place was amazing. Fire flying out from stands outside and also a water fountain floor display. Water would sprout up from different hole in the floor. I remember betting my friend I could walk across it without getting wet. Easy money!! It only took a few mins to memorise the sequence and I was across dry.

I was with 2 friends and we were supposed to work our way around Australia. We all went off a door to door sale job and all got it. They asked us if we could start the next day and I said yeas as did Steve. John said no, it would have to be Monday. Whilst went knocking around in the heat John went off and end up at the casino playing roulette. He made more money than we did working and that was the end of the job for all of us. We naively came up with a system to play on the 1st/2nd/3rd 12 numbers and try to make a little money to live on. We would wait until 1 third had not been landed on for a while and then bet it. (as if it had to come in!!). We had some success and would quit once we won enough to doss around for the day. I think we then lost a bit and stopped doing it.

As for poker I had always wanted to play it. I remember watching it on late night TV. The first time in Vegas in 2001 I went past the poker room in Circus Circus and want to learn how to play. It would not be until the next time there that I would actually play live. In the meantime my gambling buddy Nic started playing a lot online. A trip round to his house and after a boozy night out I was playing my first game. An 18 man sng 1 or 2 dollar buy in that I won. And that how the story started.