I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in advance, like in a game of chess. And though I also find tournaments fun to play, they just don't provide the constant brain buzz that cash game players crave.
I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.
I find the game fascinating and poker has unlocked parts of me emotionally. I'm enjoying the process but there are moments when I'm really down. It's a ton of travel, it's exhausting, physically and emotionally. It's lonely.
I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.
I've been an idiot at the poker table for a long time.
For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
I'm the first person in my family to play poker.
