ESPN has a great story up on 23-year-old Matt Affleck who was eliminated in 15th place in the 2010 WSOP. The story was before he lost on day 8, but still worth the read.
"Last year, my biggest problem and my ultimate downfall was that I'd lose a pot and my mindset would be 'I have to get those back,'" said the Seattle native. "I got into a big pot with Q-Q vs. K-Q. Someone said they'd folded a king when we turned the cards up and then I got two-outed on the river. I was stressing out, because I'd been the chip leader and was like, 'I need to get back the chip lead' and didn't play my game after that."..."Like everyone else in high school, I started watching on TV," he said. "We'd do $5 tournaments, then upped it to $10 and then to $20 and everyone was like, 'You guys are crazy, playing that high!' I just played casually through high school, and then at college I wanted to enjoy myself, so I quit my job as a cashier. I started playing online, but I finished school last month. I've been playing pretty seriously for the last year and a half, planning on not getting a post-school job during that time. I still made sure I graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in finance."
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