SendMyChips are delighted to announce that ShaneO19 as our latest Pro Team member.  Shane is a 23 year old online pro who started taking poker seriously nearly 4 years ago. Like many, he became fascinated with the game after watching Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 WSOP Main Event on ESPN. His first actual playing experience came from rounding up friends and family members to play for $5 per game which unknowingly to him would be the very start of his poker bankroll. After learning that you could play poker online, he convinced his uncle to let him use his credit card to make a $50 deposit on Party Poker.

Despite some understandable doubt from his family, he felt that if he put in the time and effort he could make a decent income from poker. Slowly but surely he was able to grow his bankroll playing 6 and 9 seat sitngos. However it wasn't until he discovered heads up sitngos on Pacific and later Full Tilt Poker where he began to win significantly. In 2009 he ended up 12th on Full Tilt Poker's total profit leader board and is off to a good start in 2010 as well currently in 7th. Outside of poker Shane has always been very competitive and enjoys participating in various sports and other outdoor activities such as fishing where he has aspirations of someday competing professionally as well.