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good story
enjoyed reading it, though a bit of jealousy is hard to prevent when you talk about the freedom (such amounts of) money gives you.
and i won't be too positive: though you followed your dream and took life in your own hands you're still just lucky that we have a time where young people like yourself can make millions by playing a (certain) game. you are at the right time at the right place within the right circumstances - if the poker industry wasn't so successful (and i think this is a phenomenon which hasn't existed like that before) your huge baller life wouldn't even be possible. there are probably thousands of people who are brave enough to really follow their dreams and take life in their own hands... and fail miserably at it because they are NOT so lucky to find themselves in a surrounding where you can make big money fairly easily with only your "god-given" skills.
and maybe this option won't be available anymore in 10-20 years - as it has not been 10-20 years ago.
i'm not saying you don't deserve the "success"... i'm only saying this whole thing "poker" is just wayyy out of proportions and you are lucky enough to be at the top of it.
there are other people who invest huge amounts of time to become good at things they take seriously and aren't rewarded with FUCKING MILLIONS for it... that's what i mean with out of proportions and the right time and place..
but.. that's life  and the ones who started early on poker are even luckier than the ones playing nowadays with more competition (because of poker's popularity) and so on
so mad props for your "success story"!
greets
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fucking a. good for you.
good fluid prose and narrative structure, too.
edit: i remembered the liquibition match between you and Elky, and that's where I learned to mine my ramp in TvP to nullify early DT's. shit i've been coming to this site for too long :D
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Excellent read. I was expecting bragging, but I didn't find any. Nothing was written in a boastful manner, but simply truthfully. Frankly, you showed tremendous humility by admitting your faults and respecting Elky and the other successful gamers/poker players.
This post reminds me a lot of Tucker Max. At the end of the day, it's not about emulating Dan or Tucker. It's about them showing you their unique lives and using it as an example to tell you that you can do whatever you want with your life. If you are smart, willing to learn, work hard, and are courageous enough, then you can and should take control of your own life and live it any way you want to.
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On July 10 2009 10:21 VictorW wrote:
Excellent read. I was expecting bragging, but I didn't find any. Nothing was written in a boastful manner, but simply truthfully. Frankly, you showed tremendous humility by admitting your faults and respecting Elky and the other successful gamers/poker players.
that shows tremendous humility?
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sweet read. suddenly, hundreds of nerds quit their day jobs to play poker.
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poke games between rekrul, elky, and grrrr... which one of you wins more?
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Hey, sorry for reposting this in my blog. Thanks for the article, very interesting stuff! I'm very impressed that you had the courage to discuss all your past trials and tribulations. To even admit that you were the insecure angry egohead on starcraft ... wow. Not that it means much but I respect you a lot more now
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On July 10 2009 10:30 travis wrote:Show nested quote +On July 10 2009 10:21 VictorW wrote:
Excellent read. I was expecting bragging, but I didn't find any. Nothing was written in a boastful manner, but simply truthfully. Frankly, you showed tremendous humility by admitting your faults and respecting Elky and the other successful gamers/poker players.
that shows tremendous humility?
Seriously. Rekrul grew up with no friends and ElkY is his best friend and he's praising him that's not really being "tremendously humble."
What kind of a standard are you going by...
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So Dan, how much money you got right now? 
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As I saw some jokers throwing 1$ bills at strippers I thought about the time this Korean guy had 400,000$ on a random korean poker site and I deposited 20,000$ on there and took his entire bankroll within 48 hours. Turns out he was one of the owners of the site. That site had been taking off but they were investing all their profits and the money he had on there was a lot of their capital. Once I took all that money the site had no money to cash people in and out and the site died and went bankrupt and they only paid me half of what I won. Sucks that I didn't get it all but I can't complain...not too shabby for 48 hours work. From making 1.67 an hour to destroying businesses.
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
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Very nice, I just do get why top korean players dont play poker they would have a big advantage right?
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HonestTea
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read it before
what's new what's new
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On July 04 2009 13:11 Rekrul wrote:
I'm not trying to brag or anything but if an unmotivated anti-social nerd like me could accomplish all this through pure luck then why can't someone like you accomplish it now seeing how much material there is out there that can meld you into a winning player. It's never too late to start something and for every good poker player out there there are many many more retards who have too much money for their own good spewing off thousands of dollars in poker games. If you are reading this you are probably a gamer. If you played Starcraft you are probably very intelligent, if you preferred other games you still have some intelligence (unless you played counterstrike LOL!). If you are intelligent you can make money grow on trees through poker. And remember. I did it the hard way. Its very easy to do nowadays.
Inspirational? Very good read.
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Super read. Read the whole thing , the story played out so well you baller !
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damn this makes me want to play poker
too bad i don't know how to
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Very good read haha, I really enjoyed reading this.
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I am much more impressed with you going pro at starcraft, than with you going pro at poker.
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i just glanced at it, the word fuck is used many times lol
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EPT
