I doubt there are many blonde members who have as many posts as you that I know as little about as you (you run good I guess) so will start with quite a lot...
Where did you grow up?
Ah, Senor Greekstein, what wise questions you send from timezones distant.
I'm a West London lad - was born in Queen Charlotte maternity hospital back when it was at the end of Goldhawk Road in Hammersmith. My mum used to push me in the pram around Shepherds Bush Green. When I was two, we moved out to Perivale (beside the Hoover Building) and that's where I grew up. It could be the very definition of suburbia - absolutely fuck all of any note ever happened. There was one shit pub, but then the owner bulldozed it to avoid paying any rates and that was that.
Where do you live now?
Bounced around a huge amount but now back in Hammersmith, oddly - living with two German girls. But I don't mention the war.
Are you married? Do you have any kids?
No, no - I am emotionally & financially unemcumbered.
What is your profession?
I've been in online gaming for a while - did poker, then got sidelined into bingo, then back into poker, doing analysis and business strategy for Betfair before getting bounced out in the latest round of redundancies (they're focusing on the sportsbook and mobile casino now). Currently pissing about though potential irons in the fire.
How did you get into poker? Also how did you find out about blonde poker?
Used to punt a bit, got an email from William Hill way back (2003?) saying 'Yo, we haz poker now'. Spent a week playing play money poker in my lunchtimes at work (I was working as a book editor back then) before making the huge step of actually depositing my own money. It went OK. Qualified for the Grand Prix they sponsored on Sky (table with Tony G, Scotty Nguyen, Donnecha O'Dea, Roland De Wolfe and Roy Brindley - this was back when these people actually played poker). Had a spin at the WSOP main event (got knocked out by Allen Cunningham).
In the past few years I've not really played poker religiously. I'll play occasionally live. I've got it semi quietly at Sky here and there, but only for pin money.
Blonde came through the Poker 425 deal with William Hill - there was a link from WH and I found myself here.
Trivia fact for you- I think I'm the only person to have been at every single blonde bash (Tighty once missed one at DTD and turned up on the Sunday afternoon to pop his head in the door). If anyone can contradict this then post, yo.
How do you approach poker now and how often do you play?
Not much now - I'm too lazy to grind the serious amount to crush now - I'll bumhunt the odd soft game I know here and there now and then but I'm too much of a lifenit to spunk coin on poker.
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