Hello, and welcome to the first ever "Dmoongirl" blog!!!! I'm going to preface this whole thing by admitting I really have no idea what I'm going to write about on a semi-regular basis. I suppose I'll mostly talk about poker and the sometimes fun, sometimes torturous, adventures this game leads me to. However, you probably shouldn't be surprised if I randomly vent about how wrong Steven Tyler was while critiquing my favorite American Idol contestant or how irritated I am by the non English speaking customer agent on the phone. I guess we'll see what kind of mood I'm in when I sit down to write. Don't say I didn't warn you...
I'm starting this blog because friends and family, mostly from my Southern Minnesota area, have expressed interest in my day-to-day life as a poker player. I guess I find myself pretty boring, but you don't find many professional poker players in rural Southern Minnesota and you don't find many female professional poker players anywhere, so I guess I can see how my life would be intriguing to some. I'll try to gear this blog towards my friends and family who don't know much about poker, which means keeping the poker slang to a minimum. Although I'm hoping my poker illiterate friends will learn a thing or two and someday be able to read my Facebook updates without a translation. Dream big right?
For those of you who aren't familiar with me, my name is Danielle and I play under the sn "Dmoongirl" on FTP and occasionally "ddmoongirl" on AP. I'm 26 years old and am married with a three year old son who is the light of my life. As I mentioned, I'm from Southern MN and am proud to have graduated from a High School where it was not uncommon for tractors to be found in the parking lot. I have been playing poker full-time for six years. I initially dropped out of college to play poker, but with the uncertain future of online poker I went back and graduated last May as a registered nurse. I am hoping I can hold off on using that nursing license for at least a little while yet, but it's nice to know I have a backup plan if needed. The vast majority of my career has been spent online at the 6-max NLHE tables. When I'm playing 6-max I can usually be found at the 25/50 tables on FTP. Lately I have been spending more time playing live and grinding Rush Poker. It can get a little crazy around here juggling the demands of being a mother, wife, and professional poker player. I am fairly certain I'm the only high stakes poker player in the world who has simultaneously: multi-tabled, cooked dinner, and read a book to my three year old. For the record, I have met many people in the poker community and it is confirmed that I am in fact, a female. Sorry poker community, there won't be any "PeachyMer" drama!
I'll start by answering one of the questions I get the most from people interested in my poker career. "How did you get into poker?" I always laugh and say it's certainly not something I intended to do with my life, it just kind of....happened I guess?
It started in 2003 while in my sophomore year of college at Illinois State University. My husband Kory (boyfriend at the time), and his buddies lived on the same floor in a dormitory. They got caught up in the poker "boom" after Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP in 2003. They began playing small poker games very regularly. I had no idea how to play poker so I just watched or found something else to occupy my time while they played. Anyone who knows me knows that I HATE learning new games. I'm so competitive that I cannot stand the inevitable learning process where someone else is better than me. When I say they "played poker" I should really say they were "obsessed" with poker. If they weren't at class or football practice they were playing poker. I realized if I ever wanted to hang out with my boyfriend and our mutual friends again, I better learn how to play this damn game.
At first, I was terrible. I kept forgetting the basic rules. I'm fairly certain I proudly flipped over QKA23 thinking I had a straight more than a few times. Then somehow, I started winning pretty frequently. We were playing freezout SNG's for $1.00 at a time so it's not like I was making major money but as a broke college kid every bit helped! We once played a "big" tournament with a $10.00 entry fee. I won the first place prize of $70.00 and I could not have been more excited. Unlike most poker professionals I never really thought to myself ,"Hey, making money in poker is kind of fun maybe I can do this for a living!" I viewed it as a pastime that would never develop into anything more. Kory had a classmate who was making money playing online poker and he was convinced I could do the same. He encouraged me to deposit some money and try it out. I was vehemently against the idea. It was my perception that all online poker players were degenerate gamblers and I had no interest in risking money we could not afford to lose. Kory kept bugging me about it until I gave in and we reached a compromise. It was decided we would deposit $50.00 and if I lost it, he'd leave me alone and let me continue to crush the $1.00 home game SNGs in peace. If I won, I'd keep playing off that money. I think at one point I was down to $13.00 or so?? Thankfully the poker Gods shone down and handed out some run good in the knick of time. Seven years later, I'm still living the dream off the original $50.00 J Had I lost that money, I truly never would have redeposited. It's nice because when people inevitably ask me, "Aren't you afraid you are going to lose?" I can say "Lose what? $50.00? Naw, I don't typically lose sleep over it."
So there you have it! My first ever blog entry. I welcome feedback and or requests/ideas for blog topics and can be reached at Danielle@Dmoongirl.com Also, I'm not very good at the Twitter stuff yet but I'm learning so follow me! @dmoongirl.
Thanks for reading!
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| PS- Here's my response to the "pics or it didn't happen" comment ;) |
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