What Goes Around Comes Around

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In early 2004, games were much softer than they are now. The economy hadn't quite gone within the toilet yet, and poker players were a lot less savvy. So I took a trial with the online thing, taking an $100 deposit and quickly running it close to $10,000 in a matter of around three weeks.

Having basically zero expertise in bankroll management, domino qiu qiu I was consistently playing levels that were excessive.

It was around this time that I got an invite to some game that occurred after hours inside a video game store. This place was run amok with gaming prodigies, not merely poker, but Magic The Gathering players. If you've never heard of MTG, its sort of like Dungeons and Dragons tinkered with handmade cards. My poker buddies walked in on the few young teens playing, and my one friend remarked "Hey be mindful, I think he's got pocket Demons!"

But I digress.

This store had a lot of computers at the same time, and that we all would spend many hours on Party Poker or Ultimate Bet winning and losing unknown sums of greenbacks.

One night I sat down with an out of the way computer to play. I sat at 4 tables of $5/10 (which I had no business doing with an $11,000 bankroll) and started to grind away.

This one guy who I barely knew asked me if I minded if he watched. "Nope," I said.

After about 5 minutes, he asked politely, "Mind if I offer you some pointers?"

"Please."

A fold here where I would've called, a raise here where I would've called, a phone call here where I would've folded...

You get the idea.

30 minutes later I was $2500 richer, and the man wouldn't take a red cent.

"No, I insist. It's ok. I just like to teach."

Ladies and gentlemen,

Your 12th place finisher on this year's World Series of Poker Main Event:

Adam "Roothlus" Levy.