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[QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5114487, member: 390655"]
Really interesting questions!

I started poker much later in life than most, at the age of 42. At the time, I was an international competitive runner but knew that age would put an end to that within a couple of years. I've been competitive all my life, I was also a top class chess and bridge player in my youth, and I was looking for something to take over from running. After extensive research (which amounted to seeing poker on TV one night and deciding that looked like something where age might not be a factor) I decided to take up poker, thinking if I worked hard at it, I might be competitive in 5-10 years. It happened a bit quicker: I was a winning player online from day one, and won my first big live event 9 months after taking up the game. Within a few months of that, I quit the day job and went full time.

For the first two years, I concentrated on sit and go's. As they started to get tougher online, I decided to transition to satellites, figuring the skill sets were similar and they were the softest online mtts. That proved a good decision, as over the next 3 years I made close to $1 million from satellites. So I was 45 when I switched to satellites.

My biggest influence is Tom Hall (known as Jabracada online). He was the only satellite reg who gave me serious headaches, and I spent many hours studying hands he'd played, and learned a lot from them.

Thank you for your questions!
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