Hello world!
First of all, i am new to steemit platform and in this first post it's more like testing it out, so please show some support! :)
In this and future posts i will mostly write about crypto news, future investments and of course about my passion - online poker.
In this post, i want to greet myself and what i am doing for living. I started to play online poker when i was a kid, of course it was play money tournaments and play money cashgames at first :) That's when i fell in love with this game, called and most known as Texas Hold'em. It was funny but after i was playing around with play money chips without any value for some time, i was getting better and better in it. So i thought to myself: "would be great to do this for living!" You know, what's better than doing something you like, something you are passionate about, and get some money for it. So i started to play online free-roll poker tournaments - a poker tournament without $ buy-in, but with small money prizes. The not so bright side of these tournaments was.. there were like 10000 players per tournament and only 200$ prize pool :D...if you do the simple math 200/10k.. it's like 0.02$ buy-in tournament. But the bright side was.. 95% of them were "fishes".. so the key factor to win them was: "To stay positive, wait for a nice hand or in poker language it would be called be the " tight aggressive" guy!
Some of you probably have seen movie called "Rounders" which is also one of my favorite movies of all. And by playing these free-roll tournaments i fully understood the meaning of this quote from Rounders movie: " If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker." The time when i really started to enjoy poker and started to make some money from it, was when i spotted those suckers at the tables. So as easy as that i kept to this one rule - play tight against fishes and play looser against better players!
Most likely i did not said anything extremely new or interesting to you guys and just looked where i was 10 years ago from now. And if you still bare with me, that it actually how i made my first 100$ back in year 2007 by playing free-roll poker tournaments. The interesting part is how i made what i have now from those 100$ :D The struggles i had and how i almost got broke after losing 5k$ in less than 2 hours! That is where my story gets interesting and i would even say emotional. Fun part is that it was an online poker room, where i first heard about Bitcoin. And that is where my story gets even more interesting.. That is where i started my 3 years of research work about crypto: currencies, markets, trading and investment. That is where took my poker winnings and was able to dive into this crazy adventure..
If i will see that you guys are interested in my poker and crypto-investing life experience i will be glad to share it in my future posts on this strange but innovative platform! :) Thanx for reading!
P.S. Let me know if you are interested in how to become a good online poker player in 2017. I might have some good info base and suggestions just for you! ;)