One thing that I forgot to mention about that great year was that although I was crushing, I still had serious tilt problems. I just couldn't deal with losing. I'd lose a clip, and then another, and before I knew I would be down 10k. But I was convinced I could make it back, so I would just keep playing, and then it was like oh, what happend, your down 20k now? But somehow, I was prepared for this. I think it was because I became such a huge slacker in high school, I became great at doing exactly enough to get by. I would constantly push off work until the last minute, and then find myself in a deep hole, and dig my way out. The same can be said for poker, on bodog atleast.
I can't remember how many nights I had were I was high, playing and running bad, and lost around 20k. The reason I can't is probably because every single time that happend, there would come a point in my night where I would basically just snap out of it after losing a certain amount. It would be like my brain was finally telling me, ok Will, it's time to focus now. It's time to get out of this hole. And i would climb, inch by inch(although 2k at a time is a pretty big inch), until I was out of the hole. So if I was down 20 at 2am, by 5:30am I was a up a couple K. I can't tell you how good this made me feel. It really did make me feel invincible. No one could touch me. I could easily lose a brand new car and then make it back, because you know why? I was that good.
Well, the truth is, I wasn't. It wasn't me who was that good, it was simply the games that I was playing in.

As good of a year as 06 was for me, poker wise, in terms of life wise, it was kind of, well, bleh. I just didn't really do anything. I smoked a ton of weed and played a lot of poker. And when 07 rolled around, I felt like I needed a change. But I didn't really know what, or how to make this change.
Around this time I was talking to one of the guys who I played with on bodog, and he presented me with an idea. He proposed to me that he would use my account to play on, and give me a percentage of whatever he made. Now clearly, this would not seem like a smart thing to do. But at the time, it seemed like the perfect answer for me. I knew I needed a break from poker, but I wanted to keep making money at the same time. I was extremely greedy. So without really knowing anything about this guy, other than he was decent, I let him use my account.
The first month was surreal. The guy absolutely crushed. My friends would constantly call me up saying nice stacks dude and I would have no idea what they were talking about. Then I'd log on to bodog and see "myself" sitting at 3tables(the max at the time on bodog), with like 50k+ in play. I was stunned, but it was great. I was making money, without doing shit. He would end up making about 100k that month all in all. Life was good. I was steadily cashing out my roll while my account was going up, up and up. But it wouldn't last.
The next month would be a complete dissaster. Before the month was over, the guy had lost all of his profits from the prevoius month and then some. Now he was digging into my own profits, and I had no idea what to do. I honestly believed in him for some godawful reason so I let him keep going, thinking deep down that maybe he could turn it around. But he didn't.
Before I knew it, i had about 15k in my bodog account. During the "glory days" in 06, I never kept less than 100k in there. It was a comfort thing, I felt like I couldn't be touched, and frankly on that site, I couldn't. Well all of a sudden, my comfort was gone. I didn't know what to do. I was completely shell shocked. It was time to start to digging. The problem was that this hole would prove to be too deep, and even I couldn't get myself out of it. Sometime early in 07, I bustoed my bodog account. This was really when things started to fall apart.
I had always played on bodog. It was my bread and butter. Now that it was gone, wtf was I supposed to do? I decided that it was time to try out different sites. After all, it was still the same game right? I was still gonna be playing No limit holdem, right? That game was my bread and butter! ooopssss!.
To make a long story short(cuz its kinda painful to talk about), I lost roughly 100k on the tables in 07. Most of that was on pokerstars and fulltilt, and most of it was a limits lower than 5-10nl. I know, sick brag right? I thought was the shit at the poker. After all, I made a quarter mil in a year, who was to say I wasn't? Well, pretty much just about anyone that played mid stakes on stars or fulltilt during that period.
It was a tough lesson, that I just refused to learn. I would put a couple thousand on a site, build it up, and then watch it crumble. My sessions went from promising building blocks to destructive tilt induced self collapses. I thought I was the shit, but I wasn't. I was barely even a piece of shit at the point. A piece of shit was putting it kindly. I needed a change, and a drastic one, quickly. The problem was I thought I needed to change something about my game. This was far from the truth. I needed to stop playing.
But I didn't. Instead, I decided I would try out the "live" scene. I began playing regularly at an underground club called straddle, in NYC. I played the 2-5 game there and it was great. Or so I thought. Well the game was good, but I still sucked, and was still reeling from all the online tilt. So I became a pretty big loser in the game, which I am def. not proud of. All in all I probably lost 20k in that 2-5 game. Sick brag right?
This lead me to the absolute worst financial times of my life. After I had exhausted every last cent of the money that I was going to play 2-5 with, I was ltierally broke. Yeah, I still had put away a lot of my winnings with a stock broker, but I couldn't touch those. I would call my mom up every week and ask her for some money, for living expenses. As soon as this money was in my bank account, I would take it to straddle, and sit in the 2-5, or 1-2 game depending on how much it was, thinking I could turn it all around.
Well I didn't, and things got proggresively worse. At one point, every single day I would gather up change and go to mcdonalds and buy an item or 2 off the dollar menu. It was really bad. I was a huge degen, and now I was really living like one.
Somehow, I convinced one of my Asian friends I had met at straddle to loan me 500 bucks or something. Together, we went to the club, which had recently moved from a shitty location, to a really nice one, and was doing amazing. The place was packed every single night, 100+ people. That night we went was no different. I sat at a 2-5 table with 250, planning on reloading if I lost it.
I was doing ok, maybe up a little bit, when this suave little asshole sat down at the table. You could just tell he was full of himself. Anyway, not too longer after, I ended up getting it with qq on a j108 rainbow flop against his k10, and he made runner runner straight. I bought back in, steaming. I spent the next 20 or so minutes basically just staring at him, hating him, but hating myself even more but taking that hate out on him, with my eyes.
At the point I heard a little bit of commotion behind me, and figuring it was just a silly argument I turned around. I was wrong. I looked back and saw something I never want to see again, a huge spanish dude with a mask on, and a big rifle. He was followed by I think 4other dudes, all with masks and guns. Suddenly it was madness. They were screaming,"everyone get on the floor." I've been priveleged in my life to have never been in a situation in my life like that before, so you can imagine how I was feeling. I was scared for my life.
It was truly a terrifying experiences. The "leader", would call the different goons by numbers. "Yo number 2, get over here!" It was like some sick james bond shit. I tried to stay calm from my position on the floor, but I wasn't the only one freaking out. It was chaos in there. And these guys didn't seem to want to leave. They really wanted every last penny in the place.
About 7 or 8 minutes into the robbery, I heard a piercing gunshot go off. It was really fucking loud, I thought I might be def. But I wasn't, I was just really scared, as was everyone else. Luckily, this seemed to be all the motivation these guys needed to finally get the hell out of dodge, so quickly, they left. Phew. I had lived to tell about my first big robbery! yay!
After the goons left, everyone sort of got up and made sure they were alright, and everything was n the right place. Meanwhile, There was this guy lying on the ground on his stomach, face down, sort of with his head in his arm. I watched as different people went up to him, tried to shake him a little, but ultamitley just left him lying, probably figuring he was traumitized or something.
At this point some people were really angry. They were pissed about being robbed. One of the dealers who was near my goes "there was a shot fired right? wheres the bullet?" and then he started pacing around saying, "fuck it, I knew it, we got robbed with fucking blanks! I can't believe shit!"
No more than a minute after his tirade, someone decided to turn the man who lying face down over, and sure enough, there was the "mystery" bullet. It was right in his stomach, and he was bleeding badly. I was standing right there, and I got a look at his face. I'll never forget that. You could see the life being sucked out of him, slowly but surely. That's when I left the club.

to be continued...

Ok so i decided to do this upon Taylor's request, and I hope some of you will find it interesting. Just as a warning, it is kind of long. Anyway, here goes..


I started playing poker during my freshman year of college. I really hated school, and had no friends for the most part. I became addicted it to pretty quickly. I would deposit 50 dollars at a time on party and see what would happen. 10deposits later, My mom wanted to know what happend as well. She was worried, and I was a little too, but totally in love with the game and feinding for more. So I decided to start playing on a smaller site, pokerroom, mainly because there min deposit was 10 as opposed to the 50 of partys. The beggining of my poker career is similar to that of many others. I didn't really know what I was doing for a while. I would deposit, run it up a little, and then lose it. Rinse and repeat.
This was the way most of my freshman year went. I kept playing and losing, before I finally went on a little run. I played the sngs pokerroom offered and towards the end of the school year I had a nice little winning streak in the 50 and 100 dollar sngs. I was feeling good about myself, and my future with poker. I thought I was good all of the sudden, maybe even good enough to do this for a living. After all, I figured I could, I had made about 6thousand dollars, why not go pro? lol.
I had a rude awakening that summer, as I moved from school to home. I kept playing sngs, mainly the 100s, but all of the sudden I started to lose. And lose, and lose. I was running bad, and playing worse, and in not a very long time at all I had almost completley wiped out my bankroll. Feeling dejected, depressed, and just shitty in general I decided to enter into one of the 20dollar mtts on pokerroom. Somehow, I ended up winning it for something like 5thousand(i think lol I dont remember exactly but I def luckboxed it).
All of the sudden I was reborn. My confidence was back. I was ready to do this! I really do think though that if I hadn't have luckboxed that trny, I very well may gave up on poker. Who knows. Anyway I was getting a little tired of sngs but didn't want to pursue mtts full time so I decided to start playing cash. A friend told me about bodog and I tried it out and decided I liked it a lot better than pokerroom, so I slowly cashed out my roll and started depositing on bodog.
I did alright in the 100 and 200nl games, but tilt would always prevent me from really building my roll. I went back to school for my sophmore year feeling decent about poker, and shitty about school. I kept playing though, and I was starting to get it. I was slowly getting more confident, and year of experience was starting to show more in my play. I was doing things that even suprised myself. BTW, this was the fall of 2006, and poker was alot different then(OBVV). Basically what I am trying to say is I started winning, lol. I was beating 1-2n; and when I got to about 4k in my account I didn't hesitate to move up to 2-4nl. Suprisingly, it didn't seem much harder than 1-2, and the truth is it probably wasn't. Pretty much all the games on bodog were good back then.
After a couple 5k+ months at 2-4 and finally getting on a run of consistent cash outs, I decided to take a shot at 5-10. I had about 8k in my account in the time, but I guess you could call me a risk taker, and I went for it. To make a long story short, it went really well. I ran amazing at the beggining and that helped give me confidence as well as strengthen my bankroll for the game. I remember being on vacation with my friend in Mexico and I hadn't played all trip. I went to an internet cafe and loaded up the tables and I think I won about an 8k pot that night, when i turned broad way with j10 and got it all in with a set of kings.
It was surreal. All of the sudden I was winning huge pots every session. My confidence was at an all time high. I started to really believe in myself, and that this really could be my future. Winning big pots will do that for you. It gave me an instabankroll as well uncountable amount of confidence. I was really on top of the world. At the time, 5-10nl was the biggest nl game offered on bodog. But soon they would put a 10-20nl game on, and this would be start of the dankness3 legacy!
When they made the 10-20 tables available, I think I had about 20k in my account , but I had been winning and cashing out, and I didn't hesitate to jump in the games. And they were amazing. It's almost hard to describe how good the games were back then to someone who hasn't experienced it for themself. It really was a different world. I could maybe compare the 2knl games to the current 50 or 100nl games on stars, but with all the training sites out there and other tools it wouldn't even be a fair assessment.
Bodog was primarily a sports betting website at the time, and a lot of the players that frequented the tables were infact sports bettors. When these guys sat at the 10-20 tables, they were not shy nor stingy about giving out there money. If you were at the tables with them, and had any idea what you were doing, you would be gauranteed a healthy portion just for being there. On top of that, the regulars were few and far between, and had little idea what they were doing for the most part.
I literally wasted no time before I started crushing those games, and once I started, I never looked back By the time 06 was winding to an end, I had made over 250thousand on Bodog, Almost all of it being from the 10-20games. I was 19, and now, I really was on top of the world.
All of the sudden, I had too much money to know what to do with. The problem was, I literally didn't know what to do with it. I bought a mercedes a s500, and a ton of really good weed. That was about it. Oh, and i dropped out of school. Fck school, I had really grown to hate it, especially in college, and now I could be done with it, and I was already rich. I was set for life, and would continue you to crush and become one of the all time legends of online poker.....




well that didn't exactly happen but I'm too lazy too tell you what did right but I promise I will finish the other half of this entry so stay posted! :D

Sunday was a good day. I really just wanted to watch football. I was dissapointed with the ravens pats game but happy the ravens won. Afterwards I put in a quick session but stopped playing before the next game. The game started out lopsided but ended up being one of the best all season, which I was very pleased with. I probably shoulda just grinded online but friend Sheldon was going up to a 2-5 game in manorville and I wanted to check it out, so I went. It was a home game and there were a couple people waiting before me so I unfortunatley I had to wait about an hour an a half to play. I was thinking of just heading home but it was about a 45minute drive each way so I just said fck it an waited. I got in the game around 11:20, and it was def. worth waiting for. This game was exactly what you would imagine when you think of a juicy live game. I felt like I was at an aquarium tbh, The fish were all different but most of them were old. The game was 2-5 but they had been playing for a while so the stacks had gotten bigger, and there was probably a total of 12-15k on the table when I sat down. I bought in for 700 and sorta just watched the table donk it up with each other. I didn't play any big pots for a while, until about an hour in I straddled. There were a bunch of limpers and I looked down at j9 offsuit and checked my option. The flop came down j93 with two spades, I did not have a spade. It was checked to the bb who was a real angry but very fish who led out for 45. I made it 125. It folded around to another fish, who was named Bob. He flatted my raise, and so did the bb. The turn was a 6 of diamonds, putting a back door diamond draw out there. The BB checked to me, and they both had me covered so I settled on a bet of 300. Bob didn't hesitate too long before calling. The BB thought for about 30 seconds and folded. The river came a non spade ten which I didn't love but obv I'm not getting at the hand with only about 270 left so I just shoved and he called quickly with 87 of spades. i didn't have any more money on me (as I am broke, So i just said goodnight and drove home). I kinda think it was good I didn't bring another buy in cause I was a bit tired and def would have been a little tilted from that hand. At the same time that game was so good when I go back in the future, I will def bring a few clips. I drove home and decided to put in a session online. At first I found myself playing pretty poorly so I put on some enya and tried to focus. It worked, or atleast helped me run better, which was sweet. I ended up winning about 2k which is a great end to a very good weekend for me. I am in a groove right now, which kinda always happens when I run good. But I also feel very clear headed. I have been smoking weed only once a day which for me is a big reduction from normal. I feel really good about this and want to keep my smoking to a minumum. I'm going to crash now,
35kfpps
-Will

So this is my sne blog. I am terrible about keeping this updated but atleast when I'm winning I'll be feeling good enough to post in here. I have been doing well at the tables so far this year and it feels really good. Last year was really up and down for me and although I made SNE it, I still consider the year to be a very big dissapointment poker wise. I did soo many things I knew I shouldn't have, such as starting sessions waaaaay to llaaate at night when I was already lit, making far too many losing casinos trips and staying too long almost every time, and not being able to stop playing when I absolutley needed to name a few. As a result, the year didn't turn out very good at all profit wise. However, i do feel like I learned a lot about myself. For one, I need to cut down my weed smoking immensely, which I have done so far this year. This helps me be sharper, smarter, and much more in control of everything. I just am not going to be succesful if I am a huge pothead, plain and simple. Another thing I've done well this year is realizing when I am playing bad, and getting off all my tables right awway. In the past this has been a huuuuge problem for me, and has cost me countless buy ins. The last and probably most important thing, which has been my biggest struggle for years is finding a balance between poker, and the rest of my life. I've let poker dominate my life for too long now, and I need to start doing other things that I want to. One of them is exersice. I need to exercise a ton more this year, and I plan on doing it in the shape of basketball, football, and working out. I want to be physically fit. This is my main goal. I am going to sleep and do a lot of work out tomorow hopefully. hehehe anyway this blog will get better i promise so keep reading!

31,500vpps

-Will