Not exactly unknown, but not known enough.  AKA \”SCKenny\”, he is likely the most important player that I could of bumped into during my online poker travels.  I hope some of you bump into him at WSOP.  I don\’t know where I would be in my game without ever talking to him.

The story of how I came across Kenny is rather flukey.  Inspired by Chris Fergesons freeroll experiments, I planned to build online bankrolls from scratch.  If I couldn\’t win my way in, I just wasn\’t good enough.  A loop hole in this goal is subscription site play.  So I wound up at SpadeClub as a basic member.   A few tourney take downs later, I had the cash to upgrade to exclusive.  This is where Kenny came in.

With my new found blogging privelages, I decided to start throwing some questions at Kenny, mostly still convinced I knew it all.

Like many greener players, if I lost it was because I had a table full of donkeys or I was card dead.  I am pretty certain I annoyed the hell out of Kenny with my first few posts, but lucky for me, he tells it like it is.  The first time I came crashing to earth fast, but it was hard not to see what I missed.  He never gave me the answers, but put me in the right direction.  Card dead became finding spots, donkeys became loose aggresive players.  Bubble pressure became my favorite part of the game, instead of the part I feared most.

One question at a time.  One answer back.  Kenny had us analyising hands blind and asked us to tell him the next move or what each player held.  By the end of 2008, Kenny had me playing what could be considered a solid game.  For lack of better words, Kenny is the first real poker mentor I had.

What happened next, changed my whole outlook of the game.  Along with mentions of some of SC top players, on a site of almost 50k members, Kenny had this to say  in the 2008 highlites about \”Jontm\”…..\”a much improving player and student of the game.\”

I went from shooting to take down this years WSOP, to just taking as much of the game I could in.  I found my place and was cool with it.  One step at a time.  I have those few words from Kenny to thank for that.  And I never felt better about poker.

Part way into 2009, I decide to get playing more live games again.  Before I left SpadeClub, I finally decided to check out his player profile.

Kenny made alot of sense, seemed to know his stuff, but I wondered what he done in the live poker world?

500k in tourney cashes, including some WSOP. 

And he will be at WSOP this year, to hand a few SpadeClub winners their buy ins, share in the dreams of the same up and comers and to compete on his own.

I wish him luck, but I know he doesn\’t need it.

You can find his Ask column, blogs, videos with his side kick and student, Poker Brit at http://www.spadeclub.com/