What were the pros before they pros?

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Poker player is made , not born , and many of which today are considered the best in the world , have had to pass during the years before his stardom . The question is inevitable , what did for a living Phil Ivey , Daniel Negreanu , Phil Hellmuth , David " Devilfish " Ulliot , Bertrand Grospellier Phil Laak or " Elky" '? Here , the answers.

Negreanu , for example, worked in his native Toronto in Subway , making sandwiches. How about that?

Ivey In case it gets worse . One of the most highly regarded players in the world was relegated to a room next to a boiler and was responsible for attending telephone calls Police Syndicated . Incredible but true . Anyway , good old Phil already had clear their skills and was responsible for co-workers peel in private games , as confirmed by bluff Europe magazine .

Hellmuth , before conquering Las Vegas and bracelet made ​​with Main Event world series of poker ® , was a university with acne and to remove some dollars, working as a caregiver in the Primate Center in Madison , Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Grospellier has a particular history . Just started the millennium , " Elky" was professional video game player in South Korea . It was a world famous StarCraft Star and finished second in the World Cyber ​​Games 2001.

Dave " Devilfish" Ulliot was the craziest of all. His trouble with the law culminated in a sentence of nine months in prison in Leeds. Luckily his wife helped him settle down and , since married to the present, have shared a pawnshop .

A few years before Phil Laak graduated in mechanical engineering work performed "Repo Man" , the person in charge of seizing cars that are not paid in full. "At the time I thought it was the best job I could imagine , says Laak - until a child broke the window of my car and threatened to shoot me . 've Never been so scared in my life. "

Unbelievable.
 
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There is an excellent book out called "Deal Me In" in which 20 of the world's top poker players share their heartbreaking and inspiring stories of how they turned pro. It's an awesome book if you want to know the backgrounds of the top players....very interesting.:)
 
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There is an excellent book out called "Deal Me In" in which 20 of the world's top poker players share their heartbreaking and inspiring stories of how they turned pro. It's an awesome book if you want to know the backgrounds of the top players....very interesting.:)

Sounds like a great read. Definitely checking it out the next time I'm at Barnes and Noble.
 
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It is a great read. When is the second volume going to be on the shelves. Your local library should have a copy for those of you protecting your bankrolls.
 
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because these people will see the poker game if not as a Profession, I think those people when they saw the Poekr thought a Light To exit forward and are uans day was a Great Star Of Poker Very respected by the World Poker Players .
 
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wow that good stories I did not know ...

every day you learn something new even irrelevant
 
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David Singer (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional poker player and former attorney.

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Tommy Angelo (born August 25, 1958) is a professional poker player, writer, and coach. He moved to Palo Alto, California in 1997 from his childhood home. He attended Ohio State University for one year. Tommy was a career musician in the 1980's, performing rock and country on drums and piano. In 1990, he became a full-time professional poker player. Since then has since written 60 magazine articles and published two books.
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Jason Alexander, is an American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian. And also an avid poker player.
 
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I feel that a lot of poker players come from a mathematical backround, like engineering, accounting, physics, and any math; but not all of them of course.
That's a pretty funny story about Laak and the repo man. lol
 
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Kenny Tran went from working at Macdonald's ---> High stakes
 
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I know there were several that played other games professionally or semi professionally.
Backgammon - Barry Greenstein
chess - Howard Lederer
blackjack - Andy Bloch
etc.
 
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I saw in a documentary about Phil Ivey, I believe there is a version of it on YouTube... something like a day with PI, that he used to work at MCDonalds, running straight from there to Atlantic City with his paycheck. It drove his mom nuts. There was never any mention of him working in a telephone boiler room in that documentary.
 
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