Idol's Who Forget

now it must be said i adore some poker pro's...some of them make my day better just to hear their success stories, some id love to have the chance to meet, that chance to compete, but then sometimes you find the odd one or two that really irritate, and for a reason that some hold close, and one that ive made a point to remind myself of all my life

Never Forget Your Roots

people who follow this know im a very big fan of twitter (PeterThorpe1991 cough) and that its very good to keep people up to date with what their idols are doing...its also known that poker players have seriously taken to twitter in recent months, so its become ever more useful, they update reguarly, in some cases from the thick of the action (GoingBrokeJRB - he was posting videos from the world series tables, knowing it was getting him a penalty) (EricMizrachi, TheGrinder44 - these guys kept us all updated during the late days of the main event, what a ride that was)...but sometimes you end up hearing stuff that, when taken to one side just hurts...i wont say who cause (if i ever make it) i dont want to be causing enemys.

"Top prize is £57,000...which is nice"

now i happen to know the big difference in this person between being elated and being merely satisfied, and this was being nothing more than ok with that amount...

what the hell...when i read that it wound me up almost straight away, im sorry but nobody should ever be able to say that fifty seven grand merely ok...that type of money most of us mere mortals take five years to make, some of us will never see such an amount combined at one time in our lives...yet he stands a very good chance of making it, and is merely happy...

do some of these players not remember the days when making a profit in the £0.50/£1 cash games was a nice night? do these players not remember their first win and the elation it brought? do they not remember all the people theyve played alongside during those weaker, leaner days? to consider such an amount of money anything other than massive sort of proves that some pros clearly dont remember the route which got them there.

dont get me wrong, some of the current pro's are incrediably down to earth (Annette_15 for example, when betfair sorted her 21st birthday, she was over the moon, i know of some pro's that get pissed off because they havent been invited to any parties in over a week, GET OVER YOURSELF!)


Now im sorry...i have never in my life forgotten the roots and the route that i took to get where i am today, yes ive been to private school (not exactly through choice) but i still know people from my junior school days, and ive been out on the piss with them alot and will always look after them...yes im attempting to get to uni, but i know people who are already working and i will never see them wrong in my life, let alone forget them...yes ive won two events, final tabled three others and top 50'ed almost all the events ive ever played...but i still appreciate a deep run, i still love the feeling of making it to one, even though its now becoming less uncommon...if i ever became a poker pro, a millionare, a top class businessman...id still remember those same people, those same thrills, those same joys that got me there...i would never consider myself to be above anyone else...id never consider things to be mine for granted, and id happily let my friends punch me if i EVER went anywhere close to doing that...because lets face it, no matter how big you are, youve got to work alongside people, youve got to appreciate what you get, for it may not last...nobody's at the top forever...ask tiger woods

Dont step on any fingers on your way up to the top, youve got to come down eventually

1. for anyone paying enough attention to twitter and the date of this post they may be able to work out who that quote was from
2. the parties pro...should be obvious to anyone who follows big name pro's on twitter