The Mental Game with Jared Tendler featuring Dean Bogan

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“You can always change. You just gotta be willing to.” Australian player and backer Dean Bogan tells his story of near-death experience and redemption.

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If you spend a decent amount of time on 2+2 or QuadJacks even, chances are you’re familiar with Dean Bogan, his sense of humor, his coaching and staking advice, and his occasionally unintelligible (to North Americans) Australian accent. All in all, however, you know Bogan to be a fun guy.

What you may not know is that life wasn’t always this fun for Bogan. Having been brought up in the western suburbs of Melbourne, “one of the toughest areas in Australia,” Bogan spent most of his young adult life struggling with drugs, addiction, and worst of all, clinical depression. At the age of 21, Bogan tried to end his own life.

He was rescued by the intervention and support of the people closest to him, but their help alone could not have saved Dean if it hadn’t been for the assistance by the Orygen Youth Health organization in Australia, which assists troubled kids and researches the cause of mental illness in youth.

Today, Bogan is a happy father, soon to be married, and the head of a large and very successful online poker stable, but he has never forgotten to whom he owes his new life. After leaving rehab, Bogan has dedicated his own time to helping troubled youths and Orygen.

On Monday, November 12, Bogan will take part in a fundraiser meant to raise awareness for mental health issues and Orygen further. Bogan has committed to multi-tabling online poker for 24 hours straight, while drinking beer and taking prop bets from friends. It ought to be quite a spectacle. QuadJacks will transmit a live stream of this feat. (Details upcoming.)

Speaking to Jared Tendler on The Mental Game, Bogan shows a side unfamiliar to most of those who know of him. He recounts his dark experiences with clinical depression and suicide, how he came out of the nightmare, and what he’s been trying to do to help himself and those around him since, in poker and in life.

More information about Dean Bogan’s 24-hour mental health challenge can be found on this thread.

QuadJacks – Friday, November 9, 2012