Early breakthrough
I was making ,000 a month playing - Hold’em, which as a waiter was six months’ work. So I thought, ‘To hell with waiting tables, I’m going to go play poker.’ And that’s how I paid my way through school. When I finished I started working for a financial firm and my friend Chris Bell put me in a ,000 poker tournament in Atlantic City. I won and picked up 0,000, and of that I got 0,000. After that I played in tournaments in Tunica and at the Commerce casino and then, a few months later, I won .5m on the Party Poker Million IV cruise.