POKER MILLIONAIRE
One of the fastest growing spectator events on cable television is gambling primarily Texas hold'em poker. What was once a game that had just one annual national tournament is now at the center of a yearlong calendar of tournaments played at global poker club, casinos and resorts all over the United States and in the Caribbean? Poker Winners can take home poker cash prizes of several-hundred-thousand dollars for each tournament. And there are huge prizes for as many as six or more placing behind the poker winner.
The World Poker Tour, as this new attraction is called, is truly a world tour and it is growing by leaps and bounds. Some of its perennial top players, professional gamblers, have become so recognizable poker millionaire to the general public that they command high fees to appear in television commercials. Since total strangers do not command high fees, that means a lot of people, tens of millions, must know who they are on sight. That is a large market.
Who needs a casino when a laptop will do?
Best of all is this: there is no need to go through the regulatory hassle and huge expense of getting a state-issued gaming license. Who needs to build a billion-dollar casino when a laptop will do...and the gambler pays for the laptop! There is no need to spend money for the travel required to go to a casino; all that money can go towards a devastating evening trying to beat the pros at Hold'em. If you want to be a poker millionaire at global poker club then have a look at the tips given by the newest Poker millionaire Steve Paul Ambrose offers six tips that's turn you into a five-card stud at the felt tables.
Take control of your fiscal future and learn how to play Texas Hold'Em. We pumped 22-year-old college student Steve Paul Ambrose for poker winning tips while he waited for the ink to dry on his 1.4 million dollar check at the Pokerstars Carribean Adventure in the Bahamas last January. Here's what Ambrose had to say about how he transformed himself from a dorky, geeky, mild mannered, note-scribbling science student into the poker world's biggest, baddest, bad-ass.
Get…lucky?
"The best advice I can give anyone is this: Get as good as you can, and then get lucky," Ambrose said. "Get very, very lucky. I really did feel like I played better than I normally do [during the tournament]; but that hardly matters. There were still many times where I had to get lucky to stay alive. If you want to get famous, you'll have to be very lucky." Easy for you to say, Ambrose-you damned, dirty, stinking millionaire, you!
Hit the books, dummy!
"My uncle gave me a bunch of poker books to read when I was learning to play," Ambrose said. Some of the books that Ambrose recommends: Winning Low Limit Hold'Em by Lee Jones; Theory of Poker by David Sklansky; Small Stakes Hold'Em by Ed Miller; and anything written by Dan Harrington.
Skip class (or call in sick to work if you have a job) and play tons of online poker!
"I usually play about 15 hours a week on the internet," Ambrose said. "There are tons of websites out there now, with games going 24 hours a day." Pokerstars sponsored the tournie in Nassau (n00bs can get their training wheels for free on Pokerstars.net). Steve had an on-campus job, but quit after he realized that he was making, "substantially more poker cash by playing poker online." If you see Steve online—he always plays under the name "stevejpa"—you should run like hell.
Take a math class! (And no, we don't care what you got on your SATs, genius.)
"Most of the math I use while playing is fairly simple, but it's essential nonetheless. You don't need a math degree, but you do need to be able to handle basic problems," Ambrose said.
Be From Canada!
It seems pokers biggest playas these days are from the Great White North, including Daniel Negreanu and Evelyn Ng, to name just two. "Someone told me that the average Canadian is smarter than the average American," said Ambrose, a Kingston, Ontario native. "I don't know if it's true or not."
