PokerNews · Mar 8, 2017
How I Went Pro and Moved to Vegas
Andrew "bikeking19" PieperI turned over to reveal two pair on the board and villain mucked. The dealer pushed the pot in my direction as I stacked the newly added chips to my stack. That was the very first pot I'd ever won in a real poker room. It felt amazing.
It's wasn't as if I had rolled craps and won, or placed it on black and hit for roulette, I had won by not just having a good hand by luck, but by extracting value out of worse. I also remember that being one of the very few pots I won my first night playing "for real." I had bought in short to the $1/$2 game at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida for $60. I did not have to stop by the cashier's cage on my way out.