2001/2002 is when I started to play texas holdem, like most poker players I started off playing small games in pubs and soon after started to play cash games in the Macau sporting club in Cork city. I have always had a gamble in me, from horse racing to sports betting. I met my wife Amanda in 2000, she was from Killarney where we would end up moving to in 2005. It was from there I got to meet up with other poker players from the Cueclub and we used to travel as a gang of 10-15 to most of the Irish events. As a gang of players we used to discuss a lot of poker, coming back from our trips we would discuss some of the hands we played where we learnt a lot from each other. I can recall a hand I played in the Macau vs a player who I used to look up to and whom I would be good friends with today, Nicky Power. Can't remember sizing and stacks but its not really important for this, but its just to show that I used to just bluff way to much. I open utg AK, bb defends who is Nicky, flo