Nick Howard |
Meet Nick Howard, Poker Underground Pro
Nick has more than $1 million in winnings, the majority coming from cash games. Nick has proven himself to be a winner at every limit, from $0.25/50c through $10/$25. Nick is also a proven multi-table tournament winner and profitable player, with more than $324,500 in MTT winnings - both live and online. Background Nick left college after 1 semester to pursue poker professionally. He moved to Las Vegas when he turned 21 and spent 2 years of intensive study there. Nick has put in extensive volume in just about every form of NLHE, from Sit-N-Go's to MTT's to full-ring, 6-max and heads up cash games. Nick has more than $1 million in winnings, the majority coming from cash games. Nick has proven himself to be a winner at every limit, from $0.25/50c through $10/$25. He chopped for 1st place in the $2,500 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza event in February 09 for $150,000. Under his MadAgenda alias at Poker Stars, Nick has a total of $174,537.74 in winnings, the majority coming from multi-table tournaments, with his largest single cash of $29,680. On Full Tilt, $115,014.97 in total winnings. He has gone up against and bested many of the well-known online pros, including LittleHoldem and many others. Nick honed his game as a heads up specialist (and heads up will always be his passion), but gradually made a shift to where he now plays primarily 6-max and full ring, mainly because it allows him to play 2000 hands/hr. Nick's heads up experience has had major influences on how he approaches 6max and full ring games. The resulting style could be described as hyper-aggressive, built on the foundations of: 1) maintaining post-flop initiative to gain the maximum amount of information, and
2) generating unusually large amounts of fold equity thru constant exploitation. More recently, Nick has created and copyrighted several formulas for equity analysis, and is currently in the process of compiling / sorting through his notes for a future book he plans to write. Recently married, Nick currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Quotes "It's so important to integrate math into the subconscious -- in reality has no place at the table. When we're in-game we need to be able to use every ounce of our energy to observe the subtleties of the present moment, and hopefully, if we're seasoned enough, we know what to do without stopping to think. In my opinion very few players today study enough of the right material away from the table, and even fewer players are able to take the essence of the analysis and seamlessly apply it to real-time decisions." "I've always been a big believer in the role of reciprocality* in poker -- in the long run, money only really flows when we play hands differently from how our opponents would play them; my goal has always been to squeeze a little bit more out of my hands than the the competition" Links to additional information about Nick Howard: http://poker.onlinecasinoswiss.com/venetian-deep-stack-extrav.php http://www.bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb/MadAgenda/PokerStars/1419745/player-profile.asp POKER STARS http://www.bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb/20SUCKOUTZ/FullTiltPoker/33209/player-profile.asp FULL TILT / MTT http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/nahmastay FULL TILT / CASH GAMES http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?tid=7259&grid=607 2009 WSOP NLHE Event Cash
* In the world of reciprocality, it's not what you do that matters most, and it's not what they do. It's both. Reciprocality is any difference between you and your opponents that affects your bottom line. Reciprocality says that when you and your opponents would do the same thing in a given situation, no money moves, and when you do something different, it does.
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