The Poker Life of Diego Cordovez
While most poker players who learned how to play during their childhood days used to hide from adults lest they would get reprimanded for gambling, this was not the case with Diego Cordovez. You may not believe it but it was his primary school teacher who taught him and his classmates how to play poker. Poker was used by his teacher to help students enhance their skills in basic mathematics. But after first grade, he was still playing poker and this time, without the supervision of his teacher. And as he was growing up, he found himself reading more and more books about poker until he became a serious player of poker in 1991.
Born in New York in 1965, Diego Cordovez admits that playing professional poker can strain him too much but he loves the game so much that he just can't stop himself from being involved in the industry. So what he did was to establish a company that develops online poker Web sites. This way, his life does not only evolve in playing poker. He also gets to do other things but more than anything else, he nonetheless continues to involve himself in the same industry. Now, he works as the chief executive officer of Advanced Global Applications. This allows him to take some time off from playing poker. It is his way of releasing tension from being a poker player. This way, he gets to play the game at least twenty hours on a weekly basis without getting too much strained.
It was in 2000 when Diego Cordovez won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. He won in a US$2,000 Buy-In No Limit Hold'em game which earned him US$293,040 aside from the WSOP bracelet. He was able to successfully beat a total of three hundred ninety five opponents. In this event, the poker public was able to witness his different style of aggressiveness.
In 2002, Diego Cordovez was considered as the sixth best poker tournament player in the United States. He also almost won two more WSOP bracelets during this year but ended up as a third and as a second placer in two WSOP events, which could still be considered as remarkable achievements. In the same year, Diego Cordovez won first place in one of the events at the Los Angeles Poker Classic tournament. He happily took home US$570,000.
Diego Cordovez also almost won a WSOP bracelet in 2003 but was defeated by poker giant Chris Ferguson in a Half Hold'em/Half Seven Card Stud game.
Diego Cordovez confesses that despite the fact that reading limitless number of books about poker will enhance poker skills, it is still different if beginning poker player would watch real poker events and participate in real poker events as well. By participating in real tournaments, poker players will learn more than what is learned in a poker book. And according to him, one of the things that he has learned from actual plays is concentration.
Well, this poker player really does know how to concentrate.
