{"id":19799,"date":"2019-01-05T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=19799"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:31:52","slug":"platinum-pass-gives-mike-page-a-second-run-at-poker-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/platinum-pass-gives-mike-page-a-second-run-at-poker-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Pass Gives Mike Page A Second Run At Poker Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poker didn’t have the same luster it once had for Mike<\/strong> Page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Page considered leaving his hometown of Manahawkin, N.J., and to pick up another bartending gig in another location. He had friends living in Las<\/strong> Vegas<\/strong>, Colorado<\/strong> and Austin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Three of his friends were poker pros, and although Page <\/span>played quite a bit as well, he only considered himself kind of a semipro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old was a part-time bartender, but also made some scratch at the poker tables online in the legal New Jersey market. Each summer, he also headed to Las Vegas to play in a few events at the World Series of Poker<\/strong> (WSOP).<\/p>\n

“I’ve made a good amount of money from poker, but not nearly as much as them,” he said of his friends. “I haven’t put in as much time as them.”<\/p>\n

Making a go of it<\/h2>\n

With reservations about playing poker, Page still planned on making a trip to the WSOP that summer.<\/p>\n

“After that WSOP trip, if I didn’t win anything out there I probably would have looked away from poker and (tried) to do something else,” he said. “I was ready for a change of scenery if poker didn’t work out.”<\/p>\n

With the Spring Championship of Online Poker<\/strong> (SCOOP) in New Jersey approaching, Page wasn’t feeling it. He’d played the series regularly since PokerStars’ return to the Garden State, but was undecided this year.<\/p>\n

His friend told him about some of the events on the schedule including high and low buy-in tournaments, and also the chance to win the PokerStars’ Platinum<\/strong> Pass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship<\/strong> (PSPC) Platinum Pass gives players a $30,000 package for January’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The package includes a $25,000 buy-in to the PSPC tournament, six nights’ accommodation at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and travel expenses.<\/p>\n

It is quite a coveted prize among those in the poker world, with Chris<\/strong> Moneymaker<\/strong> also crisscrossing the country offering players a chance to win one.<\/p>\n

Despite the opportunity, Page still was hesitant about spending a chunk of his bankroll online.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to invest a bunch of money in these SCOOP events because I didn’t have as much of a bankroll at the time,” he said. “I wanted to save some of my bankroll for the WSOP.”<\/p>\n

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