| A Boston Poker Pro |
Let me preface this by saying I am very serious and interested in this project. I would not put in this amount of work nor pursue people looking to make such films if I did not think this would be something people would want to watch. I think the market for this type of documentary is at its peak. Okay, so let me start by giving some background about myself. I am 22 years old and live about ten minutes outside of Boston, MA, USA. I attended Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) for three years before deciding not to return. I played basketball for the school as well and started for two of my three years. Going to ENC was a last minute decision. I moved out of my parents house at 16 years old. I moved into my girlfriend at the time's basement. School was too easy. I skipped class, did zero homework, and was a moderate problem. My teacher's would ask me if I was bored (something my professors in college would end up asking me as well). They just felt I was too bored and that was why I would sleep and not do any work but would still get A's and B's on virtually every exam. I was engaged my senior year of high school and committed to Florida State University solely so I could be with this girl. The summer going into my freshman year of college she broke up with me. I was devastated. I ended up going to a friend's graduation party and a kid I played basketball with in the summer proposed the idea of me going up to Boston to play basketball with him at some school. I decided I had nothing better to do and went with him just to play and checkout the school he was going to. I ended up doing well and the coach asked me to come to the school and play. I decided my other options sucked and committed. Here is where my story is very different. At 15 years old I started playing poker. I was pretty good right away. I won my first $5 tournament for $300 and was hooked. I played every waking moment I was not in school or with my girlfriend. I'd be up until 3am every night playing. I paid for my first car in cash (only $4k). I was in an abusive household and was pretty neglected growing up. It's caused a lot of issues and I knew I didn't want to grow up to be like my father. With this new source of income (I previously had been working at a local pizza shop and then Burger King making minimum wage), I decided to move out. I moved into a hotel and was playing poker each night to pay for it. I'd win $100, cash it out, and pay for another night. I did this for two weeks until my girlfriend at the time's parents convinced me to move into their basement. They basically saved my life. I moved in and continued to play poker and go to school and play basketball. In December of my senior year of High School I made $14,000. My mood was up and down with however poker was going. It was bad. I got a Mitsubishi Eclipse. I was going out to eat almost every night with my new girlfriend. This obviously caused problems in itself. I ended up playing throughout college and grinded out enough money to live. I had moved out of my house so since 16 I have paid for my food, cell phone, car, car insurance, clothes, college, trips, travel, gas, everything. In college my time was dedicated to school and basketball. People underestimate the time commitment of college athletics. Not only that but the emotional and mental toll it takes on you. I only had a few hours each day to play poker and would make just enough to survive. I'd end up befriending a professor who I would live with the summer after my freshman year. From slacking off in school and being overwhelmed with school, basketball, poker, and trying to have somewhat of a social life, I only completed two years worth of credits in three years. After my junior year I still had two years left. Our basketball team was losing its coach and over half its roster. The school was now 32k/yr and I was getting just about no financial aid. I decided to pursue poker which I had always had a passion for but never had the time to put my full focus into. I'm someone who works hard at what they are into. It was basketball previously. In the summer after my freshman year I would wake up at 6am and lift weights. I'd then go to the gym with a teammate and we would do drills, not just play around, for four hours. We would then take a few hours off and then head to a league for a game. We were in several leagues and played 6 nights a week together. We worked our butts off and I went from being the backup point guard and playing 14 minutes a game, to starting at shooting guard and playing over 30 minutes a game. Work ethic. I have this same work ethic with poker now. I decided to get an office. I rent an office for $950 a month in Braintree, MA. My rationale is pretty simple. I feel I focus much better away from my apartment. I'm required to be clean shaven and dress business-casual. This insures that I get up, shower, eat a nice breakfast, and go to the office. I treat this like the profession it is. I'm surrounded by motivated business professionals and it in turn keeps me motivated as well. I'm away from my apartment and tv and the distractions of roommates. I easily earn in excess of $950 more a month with this office. It's the best investment I've made. I spend countless hours reviewing hand histories and watching training videos, posting on forums, and just thinking about the game in general. I've become one of the best. In 2009 I finished ranked 186th in the world on PokerStars.com out of over 1,700,000 players according to OfficialPokerRankings.com (OPR). According to this same source, I am ranked 16th in the last 120 days. I finished 2009 on five top twenty leaderboard on Sharkscope.com which tracks sit-n-go tournaments. OPR shows I have close to $1,000,000 in winnings and $180,000 in profit. You can search “msusyr24” on either site and filter it for PokerStars to search me yourself. For 2010 I have outlandish goals. I am trying to make $150,000 just from sng's and another $100,000 from rakeback. To someone outside of poker this won't make that much sense but basically I am going to make well over a quarter-million this year in profit. I also have close to $50k in prop bets. There are a bunch of people betting against me completing several goals and I am risking around $25k to win $50k. The bet is at 2:1 in my favor. This would put me at over $300k profit for 2010, minimum. I have a blog at http://msusweetness.blogspot.com which now has over 20,000 views. I also just built my website which can be found at www.pocarr.com. I'm not one of those kids who makes $1,000 an hour. I haven't won a tournament for $300,000 or something that takes a crazy amount of luck. I am a true grinder. I have played over 50,000 tournaments on PokerStars and play 40 at once. I work hard at my game. I want to be one of the best. I will be one of the best. Everything has blown up in the past 6 months. I've made over $150k and am talking with several poker agents about representing me. My blog has blown up. I have been approached by several training sites about making videos for them. One of them offered me $300 an hour plus an ownership percentage in the site itself. I won a tournament in November for $47,500 and then a couple weeks later got 2nd in two tournaments in the same night, one for $8k and the other for $10k. Two Sunday's ago I got 2nd in another big tournament for $26,000. After I won the tournament in November, my girlfriend and I went to Walt Disney World in Florida. We have also traveled to Tennessee and San Diego in the past six months just for the heck of it. This May I will be headed to Las Vegas for 6+ weeks to play 17 events at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The buy-ins total $37,000 which I have found backing for. It's quite an exciting time. The reason I want to do this documentary is because my goal as a poker player is to make it to the top. To make it to the top you have to play in the biggest tournaments. It helps to be sponsored and my best shot at getting sponsored is to get my name out there. I also stake and coach players and this would help expand my website pocarr.com. Lastly this would just be good for the entire poker community. Poker has this negative connotation and stigma with it. There are a lot of people in Washington fighting both for it and against it. I want people to see the positive side. I want people to see that I helped raise over $1,500 from poker players for the Toys for Tots Foundation this past Christmas. I want people to see that a bright kid can have his head on straight and that poker is not just gambling. I think this is super interesting and that the right person could make this into a great documentary. Of course I am open to however you would want to do this. I always visualized it being something like that of Sebastian Telfair's documentary, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457502/. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Alexander Carr
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