18 Year Old Wins Fortune Playing Online Poker

It’s every poker player’s dream – turning mere peanuts into a fortune. And apparently, 18-year-old Portuguese poker prodigy Jose Macedo did just that.

With just $30, Macedo played online poker until $30 became $2 million, this according to Macedo, who told his tale in the Two Plus Two poker forum.

Raised solely by his widowed mother, Macedo wrote: “My Mum would always tell me that my father admired brave men, that he admired men who took risks and took life by the horns.”

Always talented at math, at aged 16, Macedo was inspired by poker pro Tom “Durrr” Dwan and began learning everything he could about the game of poker.

He wrote, “A friend of mine had been playing poker for play money and told me a story about this guy named Durrrr. How he had started with nothing, just a poor college kid, and using his wits and hard work, created for himself a fortune by mastering this game. I was captivated. I got every poker book I could find at the local bookstore (I couldn’t afford to buy any and Poker was still a secret, so I’d sneak the books into the bathroom to read them) and spent 2 months reading and analyzing them – Mathematics of poker, Sklanky’s theory of poker, Harrington on Hold’em, Gus Hansen’s Every Hand Revealed, and more. I was also watching every poker show I could and studying all of their plays, all the way down to the smallest little bet or fold. As I was studying the game, I would test my theories and discoveries on the play money tables, where over time I accumulated a million play chips.”

Macedo then invested $30 to play on an online poker site and began at the 1c/2c cash tables for 6-10 hours everyday, eventually turning his $30 into $2,500 over the course of a month. He began working his way up in the stakes until he reached $5/$10 NL Hold’em games – which is when he began to experience a bit of a losing streak, but Macedo pressed on, talked to pros in the poker circuit and began to grind back up. At his present level, Macedo is playing $25/$50 and $50/$100 heads-up NL Hold’em and boasts over $2 million in poker winnings.

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