Rising Poker Professional
If you are familiar with the happenings within the poker world, you surely have an idea of the feats done by rising poker professional Paul Wasicka. Although he had a monumental loss to Jamie Gold on the main event of the World Series of Poker tournament on August 20, 2006, he bagged more than 6 million dollars on the contest. The success that Paul Wasicka demonstrated in the 2006 WSOP event is not that new in his poker career. In fact, he even had previous tournament earnings that are considered as performances of a professional poker player. He continued to flourish on his poker career and made several successful finishes such as being fourth place on the Los Angeles Poker Classic Main Event and the top place on the NBC National Heads-Up Championship. His first place finish on the NBC poker event in 2007 earned him $500,000.
The 25-year old poker professional Paul Wasicka is a former bartender and restaurant manager from Dallas Texas who conquered the poker tables of the WSOP tournament. He now lives in Westminster, Colorado to continue his career as a professional poker player. At 28, he has total winnings of $7,568,931, putting him seventh on the millionaires list of the poker world. His participation in the poker tournaments for 2009 has earned him reasonable amount of winnings. These events include finishing 28th place and winning $38,085 on the LA Poker Classic WPT No Limit Hold'em Championship, 10th place and $25,000 on the NBC Heads Up Championship 2009 and his latest as 35th place finisher with $15,000 on the Bay 101 Shooting Star WPT Event Season 7.
The most memorable day in his life is when he had a one-on-one with Jamie Gold, in which his pocket tens did not match the Queen-eight hand of the latter on an all-in battle. The determination that Paul Wasicka demonstrated during this prestigious event made him one of the most celebrated poker professionals all over the world. The event is definitely not considered as a loss, since the second spot earned him $6,102,499 in earnings. Moreover, he outlasted more than 8,700 players in that event, a remarkable performance for a new entrant in the World Series of Poker tournament.
Paul Wasicka, popularly known as "kwickfish", earned the reputation of being a professional poker player on March 2006 (about the same time Michael Mizrachi became a pro), when he decided to give more focus on his poker career. Prior to the major WSOP event, he spent his time mastering the techniques of how to win the poker tournament. He exposed on one of his interviews that he spent eight to ten hours a day every day about poker-related activities. He got the necessary concepts and the spirit to compete in the tournament by reading books, discussing about hands as well as watching poker on TV and playing online poker. He also revealed that in preparation for his participation on the 2006 WSOP, he believed that he has already played 3,000 to 7,000 hands, more of it online.
