Blog : The Yukon, Paris, Vietnam and beyond...

Hello all, I want to start a blog and see if it generates any interest... So here we go!

It has been already 12 years ago since I ended up in Dawson City in northern Canada... Little did I know that I was at the tail end of a 4 year relationship with my girlfriend, and that our 1 month on the road hitching would land us here in northern Yukon, land of beauty and desolation, and eventually introduce me to holdem...

Fastforward 12 years and here I am, single, grinding the lone 3 tables at the local casino and I have just purchased a ticket to Paris for the 2013 WSOPE. Yes it has been an interesting ride, to say the least, and a bumpy one - or course -, but I have been pro for just over 2 years now and hope to continue this lifestyle for quite a few more years...

Because of the Yukon gaming, the games here are capped at 1-2 with a 200$ max buy in, but it is by far the most action 1-2 game I have seen in any cities! It plays more like a 2-5 game, then a 1-2. Understand though, people come back from the bush, having worked for 1 month straight, and are in town for a night or 2 with the intention of partying big time and splashing the pots with their newly made economies! So the action is fast pace, wild like the north, and it is not uncommon to see at 8:30 pm, 90 minutes after the casino has opened (the casino is open from 7pm until 2am, making it tourists hours and preventing the locals from going to broke), over 5k on the table!

So this where I was introduced to holdem and after a few years of studying the game and going broke a few times, I finally held my own, made a great hourly wage for a 1-2 game, and started to beat the game everywhere : online, Vancouver, Vegas, Cambodia.

And now I have 2 months before I get to Paris : just enough time to build up my bankroll before the WSOPE kicks in! Wish me luck, and run good all!!!