Full Tilt Poker

And then after that, I still played, but I played a lot less just because Black Friday happened and the games got harder and, you know.

I also hit a huge downswing on full tilt and I ended up getting cheated though.

So that's a whole nother thing where they refunded me a bunch of money.

Cause I got cheated by bots, but I was a pro for a couple of years.

But

yeah, I played a lot on party poker,

full tilt.

I played a little bit on stars, but mostly cash.

... you know, I, I always felt like in live poker, like that's, I do much better in live poker than online, 'cause I did actually play online for a while, too.

And, uh, like when I first started, like on Party Poker, that was the one back in the day, and then, uh, uh, Poker Stars and Full Tilt, and I just, I, I could never, I had never had any successful momentum on there, you know?

[laughs]

And I realized that once I started playing more live, like, you know, I just, I did much better, and so I just stuck to live after that.

You would see some names.

Then you would probably sweat the end of the Sunday Million or the big tournament on Full Tilt that weekend or whatever, and you'd say, like, "Oh, Pads is at the final table.

Oh, leaner900 is at the final table.

That guy's ranked number one on Pocket Fives.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so I put the 2,000 on, like, Full Tilt-

Mm

... and I lost it, and my parents were, like, quite protective over, like, my money and stuff.

I would read every single hand history that every single person posted on basically every forum.

So I started understanding how other people would think.

That Full Tilt busting of 2,000 and having that conversation with your dad, you feel like that was kind of a turning point where you were like, "If I'm gonna do this, like, I can't have this conversation with my dad anymore"?

It almost, like, it, it, it kind of scared me to play poker almost.