Who the hell is Solidthought?
Until the age of 17 I played football pretty much every day. This came at the expense of homework. So, I never did my homework but on the plus side, I did get very good at football. When I became 18 I started to realise that I wasn't going to become a professional footballer. I got scouted once or twice but it never amounted to anything. This was disappointing to say the least. I went from knowing pretty much *everything* about football, spending all my time either playing it or on Football Manager - learning about the latest hot prospects that my scouts had found playing in Scandinavia - to becoming very disillusioned with football in general. I stopped following it totally, and now I can barely name a player that still plays. If something vaguely round is at my feet, I will probably try and kick it, and I can still do a "round the world" but unfortunately I no longer cheer on football teams or players like I used to.
I started college and quickly found something else to do. Play guitar. I now had lots of time on my hands without playing football all the time. So I taught myself how to play the guitar. By the time I was at uni I was probably playing 5 hours a day in my room. I still love playing the guitar and am very passionate about music. I could never find a band though, which meant, I probably wasn't going become a rock star. Shame really.
During my 1st year at uni I watched Casino Royale and immediately came home to play some online poker for the first time. This was pretty big.
I had loved football for 12 years
I had dedicated years to playing the guitar
I then found poker
GG
Maybe the signs were already there though?
I started college and quickly found something else to do. Play guitar. I now had lots of time on my hands without playing football all the time. So I taught myself how to play the guitar. By the time I was at uni I was probably playing 5 hours a day in my room. I still love playing the guitar and am very passionate about music. I could never find a band though, which meant, I probably wasn't going become a rock star. Shame really.
During my 1st year at uni I watched Casino Royale and immediately came home to play some online poker for the first time. This was pretty big.
I had loved football for 12 years
I had dedicated years to playing the guitar
I then found poker
GG
Maybe the signs were already there though?
This is me as a small human in my Dad's office on his computer. If you look carefully at the computer screen you can see I was already trying to make a straight, even then!
Since getting interested in poker, it quickly became a massive part of my life. I graduated from the University of Plymouth with a 2-1 in Economics and have been playing poker professionally, full time, ever since.
After spending the entire 3rd year of uni playing 25c SNGs - with a bankroll of $10 - I realised poker was just too much fun to do sporadically.
I have a peculiar affinity for deep stack tournaments. With a bankroll of still just $10, l deposited an extra $22 in order to play a $22 deepstack (with the flawed logic it was now a freeroll) he one tabled it to the final table and managed a score or around $100. Suddenly there was a $100 bankroll.
I moved to playing 1$ games and micro stakes MTTs. After a 2nd place finish in a large field $1 MTT I now had a $400 bankroll. At this point I, perhaps unwisely, moved up to the $5-7 SNGs and read Colin Moshman's SNG book. Looking back now, much of the book went over my head so I probably moved up a little quickly - but - it happens! After winning a 2$ rebuy for over $2000 I decided this was what I wanted to do. Moving to $7-15 SNGs I then began to put in more and more volume and at this point was lucky enough to begin working with "Bigstealer" who transformed my game. Since then, I have been working hard to become as good a player as I possibly can.
When not at the tables, I like bro sessions at the gym, deadlifting, playing football, jamming out blues classics on my Steven Seagal Fender strat, watching arm-wrestling videos on YouTube, looking at maps, Google Earth and playing Age of Empires 2.
After spending the entire 3rd year of uni playing 25c SNGs - with a bankroll of $10 - I realised poker was just too much fun to do sporadically.
I have a peculiar affinity for deep stack tournaments. With a bankroll of still just $10, l deposited an extra $22 in order to play a $22 deepstack (with the flawed logic it was now a freeroll) he one tabled it to the final table and managed a score or around $100. Suddenly there was a $100 bankroll.
I moved to playing 1$ games and micro stakes MTTs. After a 2nd place finish in a large field $1 MTT I now had a $400 bankroll. At this point I, perhaps unwisely, moved up to the $5-7 SNGs and read Colin Moshman's SNG book. Looking back now, much of the book went over my head so I probably moved up a little quickly - but - it happens! After winning a 2$ rebuy for over $2000 I decided this was what I wanted to do. Moving to $7-15 SNGs I then began to put in more and more volume and at this point was lucky enough to begin working with "Bigstealer" who transformed my game. Since then, I have been working hard to become as good a player as I possibly can.
When not at the tables, I like bro sessions at the gym, deadlifting, playing football, jamming out blues classics on my Steven Seagal Fender strat, watching arm-wrestling videos on YouTube, looking at maps, Google Earth and playing Age of Empires 2.
Optimising strengths, while simultaneously detecting and addressing weaknesses...