Hello everyone. My name is Tim and I am a 30 something professor of Criminology and I speak at universities up and down the East Coast in both the US and Canada. When I’m not being a bookworm, I enjoy playing poker online as a stress releaser.
After years of writing on friends’ online poker blog sites and in their poker books, I finally decided to start my own site. The information you find here will be all things groundbreaking, instrumental, heart wrenching and uplifting. If none of those things, it should at least be an entertaining read. Feel free to leave comments or send me any questions you might have. If ever you see this site growing into a Perez Hilton type blog site, please shoot me.
From the website address, you can probably guess that I am interested in playing online poker. Yes, I dibble and I dabble in the world that is online poker. I wouldn’t say I am a high stakes player because professors don’t get paid that much and it is unethical for me to take money from my students to fund my bank roll… So I’ve been told.
I was first introduced to No Limit Texas Holdem when I was 11 years old from my grandpa Timothy who was the designated baby sitter for my cousin, brother and I. Back then we would play with those tiny little plastic chips and the one with the most plastic chips at the end of the game would be exempt from yard work the following day. Yes, the stakes were higher back then, but then again, necessity breeds talent. It was only up until a few years ago that I started playing poker online. All my friends were playing online and bragging how easy it was to get started and play on their own time. At that time, I couldn’t understand the appeal of playing by myself on a computer because I was a big live game fan. Then on one faithful day when I switched my internet from dial-up to cable internet, I opened up an account with Bodog because I was interested in betting on football as well. The whole time when I was joining and downloading the poker software, I was thinking that there was no way I was going to enjoy it and I was getting ready to tell my friends, “I told you so”.
The software downloaded in a minute, but it took me 15 minutes of twiddling my thumbs and brainstorming to come up with a poker screen name. I finally chose my screen name, Ace Hole. Clever, I know, unfortunately it was already in use. So after another 15 minutes I decided on Pokermon, a play off of Pokemon. At the time I thought it was genius, until I logged in and saw all the other cool names on Bodog poker. Once I logged in I played in a couple of freerolls until I built up my courage.
I absolutely killed the freeroll tournaments and was contemplating quitting my part-time teaching assistant job with the luck I was having! I then proceeded to make a $43 deposit, 43 being my lucky number. I bought into a $2 buyin tournament and then my poker-fidance was rudely awakened because these players were much better than those in the freeroll games. It took a couple of hours a day for the next couple of weeks before I got my sea legs and learned how to read online players. Online players are not all that different than live players, except with online players you can’t read their facial expressions, but you can read their chat, betting amount and how long they wait for the time to run down before they make their decision which I love reading. Online poker games go much quicker with a shot clock and it gives you more of a rush.
Ever since then I have been hooked on playing online poker as I find it stimulating to the brain, but so relaxing at the same time. It’s like watching a great “Who done it” movie.
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