I’m 22 years old, born raised in Israel a little and young country in the middle. I was born to a lovely family as fifth sibling. 3 brothers and 1 sister we live in a small town that is located next to Haifa, which is the third largest city in Israel.
I started swimming at the age of 7 and I had been practicing 40 hours a week. After 10 years of hard working I won the Israeli swimming champion cheap, what until today consider the happiest time of my life. At age 17 I had a motorcycle accident which threatened to kill me and finish my career.
After a long rehabilitation at age of 18 I joined the military service and while serving in the military I get introduce to a new game that fascinated me, and I found out that I’m quite good at it. The name of the game is Omaha poker. I also find out that I can make a lot of money from this game and make a decent living from this.
While in the army I still kept pursuing my dream to go study in the United States, like many of my former teammates. So I had to take the SAT and work hard to improve my English. After scoring at 80 percentile on the SAT I got accepted to Baruch College and I’m glad to be part of Baruch college community today.
Or Ben Galim
