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POKER IN MY LIFE
Hi,
This was just going to be a question on the forum to start with about "Bet Sizing" but I thought why not take this opportunity to introduce myself to the players of Sky Poker.
As a quick potted history I am male, 54years old & have been playing online poker for the past 3 years. I first played poker as a 15/16 year old with friends and had some really enjoyable all night sessions playing if i remember right 5 card draw. Leaving school & growing up meant a parting of the ways with poker for the next 35 years, I mean lets face it in those days there was no such thing as home computers, let alone internet poker. Being brutally honest a night out with the lads - booze ,women & football/cricket had far more appeal than 6 lads sat around a dining room table.
Things changed about 3 years ago, i was watching an advert on TV for the latest internet poker, 3D poker with all its plus points. Playing poker on the internet had never really appealed, although poker appealed to my analytical/mathematical brain I would much rather play games on the PS2 or PS3 I appreciated the graphics as I could remember the early days of playing space invaders or pacman in the local pub.
So at this point my life changed & i made the first of many mistakes, as I didn't know where my poker journey was going to take me I just downloaded the software & started to play. In hindsight it would have been so much better had i been referred by a friend or joined via some affiliate website & qualified for rakeback but at this point i didn't know what "5 card no limit holdem" was let alone rake. So Woggie8688 was born.
Let me explain before i go any further where i got the name from, I don't want people getting upset, I am no way a racist and the sun & i dont get on well at all, i am whiter than a bottle of milk but in my youth i played in a cricket team that had 7 Mike's, Michaels or Mick's in it so if the ball went in the air & someone shouted Mike's ball what usually followed was either complete carnage or acute embarrassment. If as a goalkeeper I shouted mine no-one took a blind bit of notice, however if i shouted "Woggies" then they all got out of the way. So thanks to a friend of a teammates friend Woggie Roberts was born and 37 years on more people know me as Woggie rather than Mike, or in the case of my mother Michael " if i had wanted to call you Mike, I wouldn't have christened you Michael !! " That has been the case until recently, but that's another story. Woggie as an alias had already been taken so the 8688 isnt my date of birth 08/06/88 as a few people have assumed & I wish was the case or the P.I.N. of my credit card but purely a boring thing, being the street address at work 86 to 88 .
Having now typed more in one morning than i have done in a lifetime i will leave things there, and if people think its worth reading and want more, i am more than happy to wear away the ends of my fingers.
Comments
good luck & best wishes Woogie,
i,m sure you will have lots of fun here at sky.
:-)
devon
Mike is one of the best sng players I know so be wary if you meet him on a table .. I have never managed to beat him when we have sat on a 6 max game but recently won our HU challenge lol
i,ll return the compliment....
come on mate
u can do better than 4/4 shirley...lol
:-)
ian