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Message: [QUOTE="DeuceParade, post: 5687624, member: 436506"] For me, it was in 1997. I was 20 years old, and I was a very good bowler at the time. I was stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Airforce Base in Whidbey Island, WA. I was with some buddies down at the bowling alley on a Monday night, and as we were up at the front counter getting ready to leave, I saw a door back behind the counter cracked open. It was dimly lit and I could see a hazy blue reflection off of the table in the room. I heard laughing and as I shifted my head and eyes to see what I could through the crack in the door, I spotted several middle aged men around a table. I was intrigued and I asked the person behind the counter "What are they doing back there?" and he just brushed me off. I kept asking, and finally insisting he tell me. I had to know. It looked seedy, and I loved it. I had to know what they were doing. Finally he pulled me off to the side and said "It's a poker game. 3/6 limit Texas Holdem.You want in?" My head just about exploded. I'd seen it in the movies or TV shows before, but now it was right in front of me. "Can I have a look?" I asked, and he nodded and walked me in. He introduced me and I was instantly in love. The sound of the cards shuffling, the sounds of a big pot being pushed, and the towers of chips in front of each player. I knew in that instant - and I hadn't played a hand of poker in my life yet - that poker was going to be a [I]massive[/I] part of the rest of my life. Fast forward 23 years later, and I've been in the poker industry ever since. I've been a full-time poker professional in Las Vegas for several years, and also a poker dealer and floorman for several years. I still play poker every day of my life, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the first time I stepped foot in that seedy back-alley poker game. Like a great wife that you still can't get enough of after all those years, I am still madly in love with the game. [/QUOTE]

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