WSOP is my new set goal

{ February 5, 2010 @ 12:00 am } · { Uncategorized }

I remember being told that I was in a poker room within weeks of my birth, being that my father used to be a decent poker player and made a pretty nice living before he met my mom, who is and was a casino dealer for multiple casinos around southern california and was named the Queen of Normadie in the hay days of Poker in the 1980′s. My mother was not going to have a “gambler” for a husband, or to her in her eyes poker was gambling, but to my dad it was his life and more than a game of chance. dutifully my dad decided to give in and start practicing law with his law degree that he had gotten years before.

I am nineteen years of age right now and I have been flipping through poker books recently  and something clicked for me. My whole life I have never really realized what I wanted to do after college, or had any set goals after getting into college. My dreams have always have been big but always with intent of starting my own business to make it to “the good life”. Through out my childhood I never really wanted to be one of the stereotypical choices that many children choose for example fire man, police office, pilot, doctor, or famous. I did not worry about my career choice because I knew when it did hit me on the head I would know, and I am and will be focusing my attention on poker for a while and if its not what I am looking for, I am still young. If I do make it to the WSOP when I am 21 I will be the youngest in poker history to win the WSOP tournament in Vegas. I have the background, I am willing to learn, and now I have a goal to focus on.

What this has to do with media is that poker has really blown up in these last couple of decades because of the exposure it is getting on ESPN, NBC, and even MTV had a show on addicted gamblers who could not stop. When the first WSOP began there were maybe a few hundred applicants, now recently there has been an influx of thousands entering, in 2008 there were over 8,000 tournament players with their sights on WSOP bracelet which is pretty bad ass if should say so my self.

So look for my name In a couple of years, I might be sitting across from some of the greatest players in the world like. And then I too will be apart of media.