In an interview for Paul Phua Poker, one of the biggest money earners in the game, says he started playing online poker at the age of 16 via a sports betting website.

“I started playing a lot when I was 16 to 17, and I was mainly playing heads up sit-and-gos online,” he reveals in the interview.  “It was on a sports betting website where when I didn’t have bets that night and I had money in the account, I’d go over to the poker site and I’d play heads up sit-and-gos. And then from there I joined Full Tilt Poker and I met Olivier Busquet, ‘livb112’, and he was one of the best heads up sit-and-go players on the site, and we got to talking. Then next thing you know, he offers to stake me; and as soon as he offered to stake me I went into work the next day, quit, took a stake, and he helped me along the way.”