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Really Hope I Never Have To Do This

Posted by Alex Fitzgerald on September 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Author Bio

Alexander Fitzgerald was born in the small island of Kodiak, Alaska but grew up mainly in Seattle. He first played poker in his high school cafeteria when he was fifteen. At the time, he was living in a house that was constantly in danger of being foreclosed on; his family depended on food stamps. Alex didn't have the money to pay anyone if he lost, so he had to learn how to win quickly. Alex became consumed by the game, loving the fact that the more he read about poker the more money he made. He had neither the funds nor the grades for college, so Alex threw himself into studying No Limit Hold'em.

Alex couldn't support himself solely on poker due to the low stakes he was learning at. Thus, he worked an assortment of odd jobs to support himself. From ages 15 to 18 Alex worked as a landscaper, a Persian carpet mover, as a shift manager at a fast food restaurant, and as a commercial fisherman.

A friend of Alex's at this time loaned him $50.00 to play Sit-And-Go's online. Alex quickly paid back the $50.00, and began playing on his own online. While it took him months of grinding $5.00 tournaments to make his first $1,000, Alex learned to love the process of constantly studying and working. When an eighteen-year-old Alex had his first month making more than $7,000, he decided to quit his last odd job as a security guard, and play poker professionally. He's been a professional ever since.

Since his decision to go pro Alex has amassed $2,500,000+ in tournament cashes all over the world...all without ever making a single deposit of his own. He has lived in Seoul, Malta, and San Jose, Costa Rica, visiting an additional 30 countries along the way. He has final tabled nearly every major tournament online, cashed in live tournaments on four different continents, and even final tabled what at the time was the largest field EPT event in history in San Remo, Italy.

Alex can now be found enjoying a relaxed life with his girlfriend and dog in the suburbs of Costa Rica, where he still loves grinding online tournaments.

Alex has expanded his horizons in poker, becoming highly regarded for the very popular blog he keeps and his regular articles in Bluff magazine. Alex's training videos and regular private lessons for his 100+ students have brought him acclaim as one of the best coaches in poker today, and also controversy. Some pros say he is giving away too much, and have even gone so far to threaten him physically.

Alex has not been deterred by this and continues to teach more than any other working MTT professional in the game today. Excited to expand into a backing fund, Alex looks forward to teaching even more secrets of tournament No Limit Hold'em to lucky Pocarr horses.

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