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.