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Message: [QUOTE="Mortis, post: 7139586, member: 30356"] I first learned the game of poker by playing 5 card draw with my grandpa when I was a little kid, using snacks as chips. He also taught me how to play Chess. As far as really getting into it, I had a roommate back in 2006 who was really into poker and would play online, and he was deadset on teaching me modern poker rules, blinds, positioning, and everything about poker, especially hold em and omaha (Ironically, I lived in Omaha, Nebraska at that time). I declined, but he was persistent on asking until I was bored one night and finally said ok lol. He taught me for about 3 months and we even got a small home game going. Then I entered into my first tournament, which was a free bar tournament right down the street from my apartment at the time. It had 33 people in it, and I won. $20 and a poker set was my prize. In the mid-late 2000s, bar poker was everywhere. I was hooked after that. I played a lot of bar poker for a few years and some of the cheaper tournaments at Harrah's & Ameristar in Kansas City when I moved back to KC. Did pretty good for awhile, won and cashed a few tournies, and won enough bar poker at Side Pockets in KC to eat there for free for a few months lol. I was never a big gambler, but I saw tournament poker like a gaming tournament and that's what made me fall in love with poker. Tbh, since then, poker has become a secondary passion of mine. Almost like a timekiller. And I always tried to pursue other interests more. I made a few bucks online here and there and have done well in Vegas in small tournaments, but never really tried my hand in many big tournaments. I played a tourney in the Heartland Poker Tour once many years ago and finished 19th out of close to 100 entries. Top 13 paid out. And played in a couple of Run Good tournies, but never cashed. I satty'ed into a $250 WSOP Circuit event in Vegas back in 2019, but didn't cash in it. And I played in the WSOP Colossus back in 2019 and didn't cash in that either. I was considering trying to make a part time run at live poker back in 2019/2020 but then the pandemic hit and derailed that idea. But who knows what the future may hold? I'll be entering into a couple of the smaller tournies at the WSOP this year. [/QUOTE]

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