PROFILE
Hello, my name is Hansen, I would like to share the story of me here so that you would get to know me better.
I graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2002 major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After graduation, I quickly found myself a job as a software engineer. A year later, I realized that the compensation as a software engineer would not make me satisfied even with a few percentage yearly raise. In my spare time, I started to play poker in my local casinos, particularly Texas Holdem. In the year of 2005, I moved from the lowest limit, $2/$4 Texas Holdem to the highest limit casinos offered, $20/$40, and realized that the money I made from poker table part-time was just as much as from my software engineering job.
The year of 2006 and 2007 were disasters to me, I had to stay in Beijing, my hometown, for over a year. I got back to the United States early 2008 and realized getting another software engineering job was just not what I wanted (Although finding one with my degree and experience was not too hard in Bay Area). The same year in May, I decided playing online poker instead of live poker. $500 deposit was how everything started with. After trying out for one month, I realized that even with playing four $2/$4 tables online, the hourly rate was much higher than playing $20/$40 game in live casino. I became a dedicated online player at PokerStars and started my SuperNova Elite pursuit once I realized how valuable their VIP program was. At the end of the year, I became one of the 140 SNEs at PokerStars.
I was forced to end my online poker career at PokerStars in March 2010 because of the mistake I made back in 2008. Even nobody got hurt on the tables for what I had been doing, the mistake was just unforgivable. Being a SNE on PokerStars two years in row surely has earned me a ton of poker experience and I decided to move myself back to the local card rooms.
As of now, I am continuing my journey in poker world both in my local card rooms as well as online poker sites. I know that poker is not everything in my life, but as long as this game of skill goes on, I will try to enjoy the fun and rewards coming out of it.
I graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2002 major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After graduation, I quickly found myself a job as a software engineer. A year later, I realized that the compensation as a software engineer would not make me satisfied even with a few percentage yearly raise. In my spare time, I started to play poker in my local casinos, particularly Texas Holdem. In the year of 2005, I moved from the lowest limit, $2/$4 Texas Holdem to the highest limit casinos offered, $20/$40, and realized that the money I made from poker table part-time was just as much as from my software engineering job.
The year of 2006 and 2007 were disasters to me, I had to stay in Beijing, my hometown, for over a year. I got back to the United States early 2008 and realized getting another software engineering job was just not what I wanted (Although finding one with my degree and experience was not too hard in Bay Area). The same year in May, I decided playing online poker instead of live poker. $500 deposit was how everything started with. After trying out for one month, I realized that even with playing four $2/$4 tables online, the hourly rate was much higher than playing $20/$40 game in live casino. I became a dedicated online player at PokerStars and started my SuperNova Elite pursuit once I realized how valuable their VIP program was. At the end of the year, I became one of the 140 SNEs at PokerStars.
I was forced to end my online poker career at PokerStars in March 2010 because of the mistake I made back in 2008. Even nobody got hurt on the tables for what I had been doing, the mistake was just unforgivable. Being a SNE on PokerStars two years in row surely has earned me a ton of poker experience and I decided to move myself back to the local card rooms.
As of now, I am continuing my journey in poker world both in my local card rooms as well as online poker sites. I know that poker is not everything in my life, but as long as this game of skill goes on, I will try to enjoy the fun and rewards coming out of it.