Card Player Poker Tour Local Heroes: Eddy MroczkowskiEddy Mroczkowski Grew Up in Jacksonville and Now Makes His Living on the Felt at bestbet |
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The Card Player Poker Tour will be focusing on the familiar faces at card rooms and casinos during Season II stops in a new web series. CPPT Local Heroes will highlight the regular, everyday average Joe, who may not be known world wide but is certainly known to anyone who frequents their local poker room.
Eddy Mroczkowski is a regular at bestbet Jacksonville, having got his start playing in home games around the Jacksonville area where he grew up. The former college football player worked briefly in his father’s construction business before becoming a professional poker player.
Name: Eddy Mroczkowski
Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida
Resides: Jacksonville, Florida
Age: 30
Occupation: Professional Poker Player
Favorite Game: no-limit hold’em
Favorite Hand: pocket aces
You are a regular face here at bestbet. What drew you to this card room?
Well I’ve lived in Jacksonville forever and I used to travel to play tournaments. I had to go to places like Biloxi and Atlantic City, those were the closest places we could go, and I used to play home games here in town because there was no where else to play. And then luckily bestbet opened up and this is about one mile from where I grew up. It’s pretty much in my back yard, I live five minutes away so it’s just perfect.
Do you still travel for tournaments?
Yes, I will go to Vegas. No where near as much, we used to try to hit up a lot of the circuits but since it comes here three or four times a year we can knock a few of those out. Only three or four times a year do I actually leave Jacksonville to play.
How long have you been playing poker? And how did you make the jump from working in your father’s construction business to playing poker full time?
I’ve been playing poker probably ten years but I’ve been playing for a living about six. I went to college and played football there at Catawba college, a small school in North Carolina, and came down here for summer and ended up not going back to school. I was 20 and had nothing to do so I started working for my dad and would go to the poker room and play limit and it just kind of grew from there. I got into the home game scene and found out that $12 an hour just wasn’t worth it when you could make so much more in a cash game. So I started just trying to play the cash games and play online.
As a regular at a brick and mortar card room, what are your thoughts on online poker coming back to the United States?
I would love it to come back for two reasons. One, I could play again and two, it would get all these online kids out of the room. I would make the competition a little easier.
Would you still continue to play live even if playing online was an option?
Oh yeah. I’m definitely more of a live player. Most of my experience comes from home cash games, so I feel like I have a good feel for that. I’ve played online a lot and will if it comes back but I like the one on one feel of live play.
What is your biggest accomplishment to date as far as tournament poker goes?
I have a few $20k scores, but my biggest accomplishment I would say is the past few months I went back-to-back in a monthly $50k guarantee here and won them both.
If you could achieve one big score in tournament poker, what would it be?
Honestly, I’m not looking for one big score. I just don’t ever want to work. My goal is to never work. I’m really lazy, I always look for the easiest way to do something and if I can make a living without ever having to wake up and hit my alarm clock that is what I want to do.
If you could play heads up with any poker player in the world, who would you chose?
The worst player in the world.
bestbet Jacksonville’s poker room features 70 tables, an expansive simulcast wagering facility with numerous 120” wide screens to watch and wager on greyhound and thoroughbred races or jai alai. The room also features full food and beverage service and is conveniently located near Jacksonville International Airport. The card room is also close enough to the Jacksonville metro area to afford easy access to the diverse attractions that make the city a popular tourist destination.
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