@AsianSpa Blogs: A Biography
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I would like to introduce myself to the readers of The Muck. I am excited to have my blog hosted exclusively on PokerNews, the top news and information poker site on the Internet. My name is AsianSpa, and I have used the Twitter account of @AsianSpa since May 2009.
I got my start in poker during my college days at Northwestern during the poker boom of 2003. I started playing $1/$2 no-limit frat and dorm games and sit n go��s around campus. After graduating and working in the family business (commodity trading) in Chicago for a few years, I told my parents I wanted to move to Las Vegas to start my own business. With their encouragement and financial support, I moved.
I looked into numerous businesses, and during a weekend visit from old college friends, we happened upon a massage parlor at 3 a.m., and the "light bulb went off." I saw how many of these business were in Las Vegas and how busy they always seem to be, and it being primarily a cash business, I knew this was right in my wheel house.
After initial disapproval from the parents, they said ��research it and know everything about the business and laws, then if that��s what you want we will revisit the idea.�� So I spent six months meeting with people, attorneys and the city and property owners. After the six months, I opened Asian Spa in 2007 and ran the business until I sold it after the WSOP Main Event in 2010 to pursue poker full time.
People have sent emails and direct message tweets about who I am and why I decided to come up with the "AsianSpa" account. Well, during the 2009 WSOP, I made a Twitter account and didn��t want to use my own name, so I used my business name. I made the account initially to follow fellow players and friends, but fairly quickly found that I had to speak up and call certain people out for their nonsense comments. I decided to become the "Self Proclaimed #TruthSpeakerOfPoker" and right the wrongs in poker and call out clowns!
I will be posting a blog here on The Muck on a regular basis and will give you some insight to the life of Spa in poker, and will give you my opinions of how Spa sees it!
Till then, I send you #GoodJuJu and #SpaRunGood
@AsianSpa
