Milo;337457 wroteSo . . . what is your background?
Where did you grow up?
Siblings?
How did you get into poker, and how did you find this place?
1. Background? Well both my parents are from Atlantic Canada... mom was born in Mt Pearl in Newfoundland and my Dad is from Nova Scotia.
2. I was born in Calgary but at a very early age the family moved to B.C and I've lived in Burnaby for my entire life.
3. I have one younger Brother who just turned 19.
4. Back in late 2009 I was in a work study program and once a week there was a class section and a few of them were playing cards and a game called "Big 2" so eventually I started to play and we would be playing all the time and that's how I got into cards.
It wasn't until months later when some family friends were over around Easter time I believe that I played my first real game of Poker.. it was Dealer's choice and mostly everyone was picking Stud with a couple hands of Hold Em.
I did not do well at all.. was bluffing away most of my pennies but I still had a lot of fun.. it was a short time later I was on MSNgames and needing a break from Backgammon and noticed they had 6 man sit n gos on there..and that was that pretty much...
Few months later downloaded pokerstars and won one of those PCA satellite things where half the field went out in the first two hands.
Later on I really wanted to make the game a little more social but did not know where to go I was hoping to find a Canadian based Poker forum and hopeful to find some players in the lower mainland well lucky enough I found One of the Two.
I believe my first or second thread was a sarcastic little thread about going pro.. I like to think of it as the inspiration of Costanza's and GTA's threads from a little bit ago.
Either way I got what I came for found a little bar league where I could play live as well and learn the game some more and that grew and grew and now I play at least 4 times a week out and about.
