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 I first met Steve Badger in 1993.
I was working at Commerce Casino as a cocktail waitress and one of the other regular players in the Omaha games with Steve was someone that
I was pretty good friends with. I would often times stand and talk to the player and eventually started talking to Steve. He isn't a drinker,
but would sometimes order bottles of water from me. For some reason, we really hit it off and he has been my best friend ever since, although
I sometimes wonder why I torture myself with his friendship. He is brutally honest and sometimes says things that others might get their
teeth kicked in for. One of his lighter comments was in response to me telling him that my phone bill was expensive from talking to him,
he said, "I spend that much on aspirin every month listening to you." Even though he rips into me during many of our conversations,
he is the person in my life that keeps me grounded. Occasionally, with a little twisting of his arm, he might make a comment such as,
"you are such a great person, you just need to realize your potential." He always keeps me striving to achieve better things.
Steve was the first person to get me interested in poker. I would stand behind him on hands and he would explain Omaha HiLo
to me. He convinced me to enter my first tournament where I placed 9th. He taught me his strategies for the game, and even
told me the "Omaha secret" and I have done well ever since. I know he is the best Omaha player around and I feel
privileged to have all this "inside" information on the game. Information that has taken him years to perfect.
One thing I admire most about him is that he has opinions on everything and he isn't afraid to tell people what he thinks.
Some people on the RGP might find this offensive and a few people don't like him for this. I don't understand how anybody can
not like a person that speaks his mind whether they agree with his opinion or not. There is nothing fake about him and I find
that refreshing. He also has principles that he stands behind. He has never once sat in a game that I have been playing on online
because he does not want a conflict of interest. He will not attend certain tournament events because of their unscrupulous ways.
I respect him for this.
With as much information that he has given me about Omaha, I sometimes watch him and am amazed at how good he is. In my humble
(and maybe biased) opinion, I don't think any other player can play this game as well as he does.
You might find Steve in the Omaha tournaments in the Los Angeles area and sometimes in the larger buy-in events in Las Vegas,
but he does not play much poker anymore, instead focusing most of his time maintaining his websites, including
Play Winning Poker and
Poker SEO.
Steve's tournament poker accomplishments include wins at the Commerce Casino's LA Poker Classic and California State Poker
Championship, the Horseshoe Casino's World Series of Poker, the Gold Coast Open, Omaha titles from the Bicycle Casino's Legends
of Poker in 1995, 1997 and 1999, plus mid-size Los Angeles tournaments like Hollywood Park's National Championship of Poker and
three Omaha titles from the Bicycle Casino's Winning of the Green, including 2002 and 2003.
A small note: when I told him that I was writing his bio, he said that I had to use the word "sweet" to describe him. I told
him that there was no way in hell that word was going on his bio, but here it is... He can sometimes be sweet, if there is a
full moon in the third month of the year on a Wednesday. |
