Andrew Felman, aged 21, who hails from Watford has cleared over £4,000,000 in under three years playing poker. His story makes interesting reading. He was originally attracted to on-line poker by his brother. At the time his only earnings were £25 a week from a paper round, and he blew one weeks wages on his first few internet games played at an online casino. He soon learned how to play better and started to turn those early losses into wins. The wins increased until he was making about £5,000 a day. Whilst he was doing this he was at the same time studying for his A levels which he passed with pretty spectacular results. Rather than take up a place to read Economics at University he decided to devote his time to poker and became a full time player. He soon became a serious tournament player and gained several good results including winning the 888 Poker Open Tournament.
He made a TV appearance on Poker Den. In this match twenty one players each $10,000 and played endurance poker for thirty six hours. The tournament was televised and broadcast by Chanel 5. In it he made $63,350 coming second behind Robert Williamson who netted $63,675.
Andrew has some interesting observations regarding the abilities of UK poker players compared with their counterparts in the USA. He considers the American players to be much stronger overall. He believes that the reason is television exposure. Whilst poker coverage in the USA is broadcast during prime time, it is rarely shown in the UK, and when it is it is mostly at inconvenient times.
His guidelines for winning at poker are to only play people you have a high probability of beating and to always exercise patience. He always tries to play with his head rather than his heart. Interestingly he prefers online poker to live as he prefers the fast pace of the online version.
About the Author
Laura Brown enjoys a game of online poker and plays in WSOP (World Series of Poker) — but has never come close to the £4million won by Andrew Felman — so he regularly practices online at — http://www.betfred.com/poker/