WildWildWes here aka Boobie Lover
(now twenty years removed from that deeply cringe name)
I’m now the proud owner of TalkingPoker.com.
Welcome to TalkingPoker.com Rebooted.
A lot has changed. The times changed. The games changed. The internet changed. I changed too, at least somewhat. And yet in one important way, I’m still the same guy: still stuck behind a machine trying to make money.
My apex years were 2021 through 2023, when I made a little over $800,000. In 2021 alone, I had two separate $100,000 months. It was, in hindsight, a pretty solid decision not to have kids and instead become a nomad gambler living out of a backpack, grinding on a Lenovo ThinkPad in the frozen tundra of legalized online poker in Michigan.
Now I’m still in Michigan, a little more settled, a little more complacent, and starting to look for old hobbies worth reclaiming and new ones worth building.
One of those is writing.
I’m working on a memoir now, and I promise it’s going to be a doozy. It’s mostly a sad cautionary tale about loneliness, with some mental illness mixed in for flavor. Bipolar 1 diagnosis, high five. Very glamorous stuff. So far I’m around 40,000 words, trying to push it to 70,000 before I start seriously trying to land a literary agent and, ideally, a major publishing house.
I only started this writing seriously in late 2025, but it has reawakened something in me that predates poker entirely: I always wanted to be a writer. That ambition never really died. I’m still stubborn enough to believe I can make the work undeniable.
So that’s part of what this reboot is.
I’ll be posting rough drafts, reflections, poker thoughts, old stories, new stories, and whatever else seems worth putting into the world. Some of it will be funny. Some of it will be bleak. Some of it will probably make people a little uncomfortable. That usually means it’s honest.
And if you’re an old face from the old TalkingPoker days, make a new account and, if possible, grab your old screen name. It would be good to see some of the original crowd wander back in so the OGs can recognize each other.
Glad to have the place back.
—Wes
(now twenty years removed from that deeply cringe name)
I’m now the proud owner of TalkingPoker.com.
Welcome to TalkingPoker.com Rebooted.
A lot has changed. The times changed. The games changed. The internet changed. I changed too, at least somewhat. And yet in one important way, I’m still the same guy: still stuck behind a machine trying to make money.
My apex years were 2021 through 2023, when I made a little over $800,000. In 2021 alone, I had two separate $100,000 months. It was, in hindsight, a pretty solid decision not to have kids and instead become a nomad gambler living out of a backpack, grinding on a Lenovo ThinkPad in the frozen tundra of legalized online poker in Michigan.
Now I’m still in Michigan, a little more settled, a little more complacent, and starting to look for old hobbies worth reclaiming and new ones worth building.
One of those is writing.
I’m working on a memoir now, and I promise it’s going to be a doozy. It’s mostly a sad cautionary tale about loneliness, with some mental illness mixed in for flavor. Bipolar 1 diagnosis, high five. Very glamorous stuff. So far I’m around 40,000 words, trying to push it to 70,000 before I start seriously trying to land a literary agent and, ideally, a major publishing house.
I only started this writing seriously in late 2025, but it has reawakened something in me that predates poker entirely: I always wanted to be a writer. That ambition never really died. I’m still stubborn enough to believe I can make the work undeniable.
So that’s part of what this reboot is.
I’ll be posting rough drafts, reflections, poker thoughts, old stories, new stories, and whatever else seems worth putting into the world. Some of it will be funny. Some of it will be bleak. Some of it will probably make people a little uncomfortable. That usually means it’s honest.
And if you’re an old face from the old TalkingPoker days, make a new account and, if possible, grab your old screen name. It would be good to see some of the original crowd wander back in so the OGs can recognize each other.
Glad to have the place back.
—Wes