The Story Of Paul Wasicka
Paul Wasicka is the second place winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker main event. The prize money that he took home was about 6 million dollars, which is just one million short from the overall winner's prize of the 2005 World Series of Poker. Not bad, even for a second place because this only means that he has proven his skills and won over the other 8,871 other participants. In the following year, Paul Wasicka won the 2007 National Heads-Up championship proving once again that Paul is indeed good in the game of Poker.
Ever since Paul was young, he is already showing signs of competitiveness and aggressiveness in everything he does. Just after joining the junior high chess team, he quickly moved to playing with high school kids because he is looking for a more challenging game to play. In high school, Paul greatly displays his enthusiasm for challenging sports. He joined five different sports like volleyball, wrestling, cross-country, skiing, and track and field. In all these sports, Paul greatly shows his attentiveness and competitiveness to others players.
After graduating from high school, Paul again shows just how competitive he is. In one of his ski trips, Paul was able to visit a casino. He played black jack with starting money of just 10 dollars but after he leaves the casino he already have 100 dollars worth of winnings. Just after five weeks of winning these 100 dollars, Paul already have a total winning of 17,000 dollars, which led him into thinking that he can make a living out of gambling with playing cards.
Right after that, Paul's friend introduced him to playing poker online. Paul then again shows how competitive he is by making an in-depth study on how he can be successful in this game. Before fully diving in to the poker world, he spent hours studying the moves done by most of the successful players and the way he can use it to his advantage. After he was all set, he put the information he has gathered into good use in the satellite World Poker Tour event. He finished 15th in the championship allowing him to take home $ 146,000.
He set aside some of his winnings for the 2006 World Series of Poker because by this time Paul has now gained confidence in the way he plays poker, both online and in the Las Vegas Poker Rooms. Paul was able to gather a total of $ 65,000 in some of the events of the WSOP. Paul then finishes with a second place in the main event of WSOP, in which he won of more than $ 6.1 million. This has now established that Paul Wasicka is indeed competitive and good in everything he does. Paul is now of the youngest and one of the most promising players in the game of Poker. In March of 2007, Paul again proves that he is indeed a promising poker player by winning the 2007 National Heads-Up Championship.
