Brent "Horneris" Horner

Name: Brent Horner
Alias:Horneris
Age: 20

I started playing poker at college in late 04 and ripping apart the cash games daily, often taking home £20 or more (1op blinds). I then soon started playing online, beginning with Party Poker.com and initially losing almost $50 per day. I spent the first 3 weeks trying to play stupidly aggressively and bluffing nearly every hand. It wasnt for a while that i realised that bluffing was a bad idea, especially on Party. I then spent some time colluding in Cash games with LeKnave & another friend of ours called Steelio on Pacific Poker, until we were almost caught and promplty stopped.

I Made a lot of decent tournament cashes in 2006, mainly within the goldfish pond known as Pacific Poker/888.com and paid for my holiday to Tenerife, and all i ever thought was how easy online poker was. Carried on winning in the early stages of this year at Uni, winning $6000 on DTD poker, coming 3rd in a WSOP MPP Points freeroll & doing well in Party Poker cash games.

Then came then Downswong. I wasnt quite the player i thought i was. I couldnt win a thing, everything seemed to be going against me. I was (in retrospect) playing quite bad, running like hell and dropped $2k in March alone. I also purchased a new widescreen laptop, clothes, about 100 DVDs and other things with my winnings and after a few more months almost all my money was gone and i kept finishing 10th-20th in big tourns, never quite getting the big win i was after.
I now have a job which i love (so far), working at Skybet, watching Horse Racing all day and havent even been playing that much, although i recently finished 51st in the International Poker Open. Online, I am a massive Long Term Loser on Pokerstars, and although that one big win on DTD makes me a winning player overall, i have doubts whether i can make that much money, i certainly dont feel i can make Poker pay as a career.

Saying that though, on the positive side of things, I am up £1,700 from Live Poker in 07 and i still maintain that i feel like i could be one of the best players in the world one day, but first i need to get back on the horse and win some money online. Something i will be actively seeking to do in 2008. The online world hasnt seen the best of me yet. In fact, its hardly seen any of me yet. The future is bright, the future is MINE.

Rich "Chiprich20" Hare

I am unemployed and have -£750.

y havnt i killed myself.

amirite?

James "Linux" Moody

I fkin love dick, ducy?

Im getting evicted yo.

Dave "LeKnave" Jones

Name: Dave Jones
Alias: LeKnave
Age: 19

I began my journey through this sick game in early 05 thanks to some persuasion from Horneris, i loved it from day 1. It was finally something i wanted to excell at and made a heavenly change to going to lessons at college. I started playing NLHE cash games with change in the cafe with about 10 others all ante'ing 10p. And i found the beauty of online poker. I deposited under my Dads name as, at 17 i was still too young to play. I immediately begin to succeed...then i thought i was god, as most do. But soon found out this was infact, not the case. I found myself $400 down from depositing slyly with his card! Luckily it was a card he never used, so it went unnoticed!

When i turned 18, i couldn't set up my own account fast enough and began shipping it from day 1. Playing $3/6 with no idea how to play really, and $50 HU sit and goes. It was all going to go wrong! Then when i lost my $1000 BR on Pacific in a few days i was pretty crushed, and the grind started over again.

Those were the days, now having finished a year i am now a student at leeds met and am trying to remember how to win. I'll be smashing the shit out of mtt's crushing 20-30 a day in the search of some sick wins. This is a strategy i have employed this year but am in the midst of a downswong. But will keep at it despite various head injuries from nutting walls, punching myself in the face and nutting cans.

I know another sick period of wins is just around the corner. Lets gogogogogo

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