And it’s fun, you know? I wouldn’t advise people to quit a good job to try online poker but if you just got your degree or something and want to give it a shot, I think it’s a viable thing to do,” he said. You can’t really win a million every year, but you can still win more than a normal job. Nowadays, he insists that with the wealth of available online training sites and hard work, the poker dream is still there for the taking for everybody. Of course, like most, it wasn’t always easy for Giraf, he recalls his early years when he was trying to figure out the game and was basically “clicking buttons.” It wasn’t until he hooked up with a staking stable and received coaching that a whole world opened up for him. He’s a consistent threat to take down any tournament he enters and, in 2018, he has been a mainstay in the top 25 of the PocketFives Rankings. The well-known Belgium pro, who goes by ‘Giraf’, is a fixture in the online tournament scene.
“If you ask: ‘Is it still beatable?’, ‘Can you make a lot of money?’, ‘Can you start low and grind it up?’, The answer is yes.”įive years into his online poker career as a member of the PocketFives community, high-stakes online poker professional ‘Girafganger7’ still believes in the poker dream.
