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Joined: 2009-05-19
Perry Wortman
NYC
currently 12-tabling Turbo 90-man KO sng's, 6-tabling Turbo 135-man Rush sng's
$1000 in an 8 hour online session, $1350 in a live tourney at the Taj

About Kloptikus

My first experience with poker was playing five-card draw with my grandma as a kid. She mostly let me win and I ate a ton of her delicious cookies which we used as chips. Aside from the occasional game with the family, I didn't play much again until I was attending the Manhattan School of Music. A piano player named Eliot put together a game just about every night in the dorm lounge and night after night he would take down the whole table. I couldn't believe it! That was when I realized that this thing was beatable and took a strong interest in it. I played HU with Eliot and picked his brain on a daily basis. We even went to AC quite a few times together and I can confidently say that I learned my foundation from him.

Reading some poker books on the side and playing on Party and Paradise nightly, I was doing well enough to have some extra money from playing $1/$2 and $2/$4 limit cash games. Then the Federal Gov't passed legislation restricting US players. At that point I basically stopped playing for awhile and focused on music.

After graduating I went to work for Carnival Cruise Lines' entertainment department for a couple of years. Those years were a blast, but eventually came to a close when I realized that I couldn't keep a life on land and be out at sea simultaneously. So I made the decision to come back to land in fall of '08. I currently split my time between freelancing as a musician in New York, multi-tabling SNG's, and last but not least, with friends and family.

Topics by Kloptikus

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Blog entry Tax tips anyone? 3 22 weeks 19 hours
Blog entry 1st place finish in a Taj Mahal $50+15 daily Pt. 1 0 23 weeks 3 days

Replies by Kloptikus

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 12:33

Hello Mark,

Two questions:

1. What is the longest losing/break even streak that you have endured and how did you keep your confidence up during that period?

2. I have been...

Friday, July 10, 2009 - 02:12

The way you played the KO bounty hand was very interesting. What other kinds of adjustments would you make in these tournaments considering players make so many loose calls to get bounties?
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