Ask high stakes เว็บสล็อต 289 and cash game player BrynKenny about a 21 year old kid from Indiana named Aaron Jones, who took $62,000 off of him in a HU grudge match, and $50,000 more on a prop bet from the match. Ask mu_empire, who lost nearly $20,000 to Jones in a HU match. Even ask ActionJacson, who used to talk trash about Jones until he too lost to AE in a tournament prop bet. Some people love him and some people hate him, some talk massive trash about him, but none can argue that Aaron Jones is a great poker player. After struggling to sustain a bankroll for a few years, Jones seems to be hitting stride. With over a half million dollars in career earnings, $300,000 of which came in 2007, AE looks like he’s going to be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.
DS: So tell me your poker story…
Aaron Jones: I started playing 5 dollar tournaments probably 5 summers ago in high school. It escalated to cash games and eventually the got bigger and bigger. I decided there was money to be made, so I picked up every book I could get my hands on. I read a lot of bad books with some marginal information, and when I got started online I found poker forums- namely, 2+2. I ran money up to a few thousand, went busto, and ran it up again. I remember having a 10k month my senior year of high school, thinking I was on top of the world, but I hit a lot of variance and went broke many times since then. I think I’ve been doing very well for about 2 years now consistently.
DS: Do you think going broke a lot helped your game or staggered your development?
Aaron Jones: If you’re an intelligent and somewhat emotionally stable human being, going broke can only help your game. The trials and tribulations of having consistent success in online poker are very important- that is, you have to learn how to crawl before you can walk. I never read anything about bankroll management before I was playing 5-10 with two thousand dollars in my account. I learned things like variance before I read about them- and then reading about them helped me reinforce everything. Most of all, going broke teaches you the stability and level-headedness that is needed in a game like this. You need to keep on an even keel. Aside from a few broken mouses, I’ve learned to take bad beats and downswings in stride. After it happens so many times, you become somewhat numb to it.
DS: What took you from the guy who was struggling to keep a solid bankroll to a big winner in the mid and high stakes games? Was it one eureka type moment or was it gradual?
Aaron Jones: I think it’s fairly gradual. I had a friend who was a bankroll nit. Eventually, I learned that keeping 20, 30, 50 buyins online was a very important thing if I want to play 4 or 6 or 8 tables. I guess if there was a single moment, I decided to ‘grind’ 1-2 at one point almost 3 years ago and bought a 20 inch monitor to attach to my laptop. It really made me feel like I was doing it like a job, so I had to keep a bankroll like a job. That was during the party days, but I don’t think I’ve had less than 10k online since then.