When I hit 16 years old, a friend of mine from high school - Joey - who had gone off to college in Queens at St. We were all terrible and had no idea what we were doing, but we were all having fun and little did I know it, but I was getting a taste of what was to come in terms of my career later on in life. When I reached middle and high school, I would host multi-table $20-$50 buy-in tournaments at my house and there would be about 40-50 of us at my house playing poker, socializing, eating, and doing what kids do. It would be unusual to see my Grandma without a deck of cards on her.Īs I got older, my whole family would play together. Poker was something we always did together and did often. Occasionally, I even beat her - I’ll never be sure to this day if she let me win, but I’ll always hold those memories close. We would play with a cheap Hoyle chipset she had purchased from the local grocery store. My grandmother was a player/dealer decades ago (her boyfriend ran a large club in Queens, NY) and she started teaching me 7 Stud, 5-Card Draw Hi, and NL Hold'Em starting when I was 6 years old.

Maybe BBV will find it interesting as well.Ī bit of some background about me - I basically grew up in the poker world. I often get asked by the players here in Vegas to tell some stories of my club days.

I now live in Vegas and work here full time in the poker industry. I have a ton of stories from my days of dealing in the underground clubs in New York.

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