About Me

Well...I'm not sure if this is necessary, because after much careful thought, I realized that no one besides myself will probably read this. But, I figured if nothing else, I could work on my sorry writing skills that will become painstakingly clear after reading this.

So. My name is Shawn Michael Justice. I am a 22 year old single male that recently graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Adminstration. I live in Westerville, Ohio with 4 of my best friends. I'm orginally from Marion, Ohio but I moved here last August because of my job.

I work at a company called Century Surety as a loss control assistant. It's not a bad place to work, but I'm definetly not making the money that a college degree warrants, so I've got my eyes open for other opportunities. Truth be told, I can't see myself working in an office for the rest of my life, so I'm gonna try to do something about that. Until then, I'm stuck doing too much work for too little pay, and wasting my degree on a job that any person with a High School diploma or GED could get.

This brings me to my passion, which is poker. I've been playing poker for probably about 2 1/2 years, but the first year or so consisted of home games like Follow the Queen, Midnight Baseball, and Guts. But after that year, my friends and I have really begun to play the real poker games such as Texas Hold 'Em, Omaha, 7 card stud, etc. We play occassionally on the table that my dad and I built, but I play mostly on the internet, since there are no casinos within 3 hours drive of Westerville, Ohio.

I consider myself a pretty decent player. I win on a consistent basis, but haven't really gotten the big break. Stealing a quote from Dutch Boyd "I never catch the big break, but always seem to catch the little ones when I need them the most". I've cashed in all but 2 tournaments I've played in at the VFW in Marion, and my highest finish was third. I got all my chips in against the chip leader (I was in second) with AK against his A5, but he proceeded to spike a 5 on the river to send me packing with 3rd place money. I ended up with $340, when 1st got over $1,000. That pretty much sucked.

I've gotten my bankroll up to about $1,900, but went to Vegas about a month ago. I broke even gambling, but spent about $300 while I was there. When I got back, I proceeded to lose $300 more playing online, so that put me at about $1,300. I decided I would put about $750 in the bank, so that took me down to $550. So that's about where I'm at right now. I've been playing the .50-$1 tables, 10+1 Sit n go's and the $5 and $10 multi tables to start to build it back up.

My biggest frustration with poker is the luck factor. As all of my friends will attest to, I'm the unluckiest player alive. Well maybe not, but pretty close. I always seem to get my money in with the best hand, only to have people hit 3 and 4 outers on me. I seem to be fairly consistent in big tournaments, but I always seem to lose the coin flip hand once were down to the final 15 or 20. This has cost me alot of money, as many times I've had the chips to get to the final table, but have failed to do so. Sometimes it's my fault, but sometimes I'm just plain unlucky. It's something I have to work on, but it's a cruel reminder that in Tournament poker, one wrong move could cost you your whole stack.

Well...that's all for now. Next post I'll introduce my family and friends, and talk some more poker. I've been doing pretty well on the Party Poker tables, so maybe I'll have some good news to post.

P.s. I'm going to write this as if other people will read it. They probably won't, but maybe some day if I'm lucky enough to do something important with my life, maybe people will read it.