Getting to Know you.....2+2 style

[mtdoak]

Just thought it would be cool to get to know a few more 2+2ers SSH players. Reply with the blanks filled in! Feel free to leave any question blank.

Your First Name:
Location:
Current Limit:
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun):
Biggest leak:
How many Tables?:
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously:

[mtdoak]

Your First Name: Matt
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Current Limit: 2/4 full (soon moving back to 3/6 max...moving is expensive)
AIM SN: El Doako
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Calling down too often
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: HPFAP
Time playing seriously: Been a winning player for 9 months, and a solid player for 6 and a good player for 2 months.

[paperboyNC]

Your First Name: Call me "Kay"
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Current Limit: 3/6 and 5/10 6m
AIM SN: keshbest
Enthusiast (just for fun): I do suppliment my income, but it's just for fun.
Biggest leak: Calling down with marginal hands.
How many Tables?: 3-4 (my fav site only allows 3)
Favorite Book: Lord of the rings. Oh you mean poker book?
Time playing seriously: 1 and 1/2 years.


Feel free to IM me if you want to talk about anything poker related. I love to think about the game and commiserate over the bad beats.

[jason_t]

Your First Name: Jason
Location: Los Angeles
Current Limit: 3/6 and 5/10 6m
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Not calling down enough
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Blindness, Jose Saramago
Time playing seriously: 1 year ago I played for my first time, 7 months ago I got serious, 4 months ago I started playing seriously

[private joker]

Your First Name:
Location: Los Angeles
Current Limit: 5/10 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-pro
Biggest leak: Poor river play
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously: 3 years

[Fat Nicky]

Your First Name: Nick
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Current Limit: 5/10, 3/6
AIM SN: BassMan712
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro (since I count on poker winnings to pay certain bills even though I still have good full time job.
Biggest leak: Blind play.
How many Tables?: 4-8
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: 15 months

[Entity]

Your First Name: Rob
Location: Seattle
Current Limit: 10/20
AIM SN: n/a
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Thinking I can outplay too many people postflop
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: currently, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time playing seriously: 1.25 years

[MyTurn2Raise]

Your First Name: Bret

Location: Illinois (Champaign is my town, but I frequently stay with family and friends in Chicagoland and the Lou): I travel alot

Current Limit: Online 2/4 fulltable(3/6 when it's juicy, 1/2 when I need an ego boost); Live 10/20 to 20/40

AIM SN:

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun):Pro

Biggest leak: too weak on river & don't blind steal enough

How many Tables?:6 when I'm in hold'em, 8 at omaha8

Favorite Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Life After God by Douglas Coupland
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
(sorry...I like to read)

Time playing seriously: For a paycheck, since July 2004

[SackUp]

Your First Name: Josh
Location: San Deigo, CA
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: foling too much from the blinds
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: 8 months

[Piiop]

Your First Name: Mike
Location: Columbus, OH
Current Limit: 10/20-15/30
AIM SN: Piiop
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro
Biggest leak: Too tight ABC rock, not using all the info
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: 1 year very seriously, 1 year semi-serious, .5 year not serious

[KDawgCometh]

Your First Name:Keith
Location: Jersey for now, chicago in june
Current Limit:2/4-3/6 full, soon to be 5/10 full and 3/6 6
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro
Biggest leak:I can't think of just one, probably trying to over aggro it too much
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: the Dharma Bums-kerouac
Time playing seriously: 2 1/2 years, online since jan

[cold_cash]

Your First Name: Ronnie
Location: Oregon
Current Limit: Trying to break into the 5/10 short
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): enthusiast pretty much
Biggest leak: I'm too tight.
How many Tables?: 2
Favorite Book: A Farewell to Arms
Time playing seriously: Year and a half or so.

[Azhrarn]

Your First Name: John
Location: Annandale, VA
Current Limit: 3/6, 5/10
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro
Biggest leak: I can't bring myself to care about gametime or pokerace or datamining or rakeback or bonus whoring or different sites or any of that [censored]
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: anything by Lois Mcmaster Bujold. A Civil Campaign if I had to pick one.
Time playing seriously: Been playing on the internet for three or so years, but I had no idea what I was doing when I started. I got Pokertracker about two years ago, so call it that.

[Erik W]

Your First Name: Erik
Location: Sweden
Current Limit: 2/4 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro - Pro
Biggest leak: Calling down too often
How many Tables?: 8-8+
Favorite Book: Everything by Michael Connelly
Time playing seriously: 2 years

[PokerBob]

Your First Name: pokerbob
Location: st. paul
Current Limit: 10/20 6max
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): full time pro
Biggest leak: river play
How many Tables?: 4 for now
Favorite Book: catcher in the rye
Time playing seriously: been playing 1.5 years....really dug in 6 months ago

[shant]

Your First Name: Shant (really)
Location: Los Angeles
Current Limit: 10/20 & 15/30
AIM SN: sh8nt
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: Getting paranoid about being "outplayed"
How many Tables?: 4-6
Favorite Book: The Giving Tree
Time playing seriously: 1 year (6 months seriously)

[Edge34]

Your First Name: Brandon

Location: St. Cloud, MN (for college)

Current Limit: 1/2 (I know, technically micro)

AIM SN:

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro-ish...playing seriously, but not making major bank...yet

Biggest leak: Used to be cold-calling. Now just occasional FPS

How many Tables?: 1-2...crappy laptop

Favorite Book: The Bourne Supremacy, The DaVinci Code

Time playing seriously: I've TECHNICALLY been playing seriously for maybe the last 2 years...for the last 3 months or so I've done major retooling on my game and hope to be stepping up in limits soon (and often).

[Supdog42]

Your First Name: Steve
Location: Sarasota, FL
Current Limit: 10/20-15/30
AIM SN: spaley17
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro
Biggest leak: Overplaying good, but not great hands
How many Tables?: 1
Favorite Book: Inside the Poker Mind
Time playing seriously: started 1 year ago, serious for 9 months.

Feel free to IM me anytine to talk poker.

Your First Name: Fredegar (this name was more common 1000 years ago)
Location: Germany, small town in Bavaria
Current Limit: 0,5/1 (winning) 1/2 (breaking even) 2/4 loosing all my winnings from 0,5/1 to you guys /images/graemlins/smirk.gif
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Being a fish, but after some big winnings always thinking to be a shark
How many Tables?: 1 /images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Favorite Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously: 2 month ago, I learned Texas Hold'em by watching the Party Poker Million V semifinals in TV. The next day, I created my account. Now playing every evening.

[gh9801]

Your First Name: Gary
Location: Los Angeles
Current Limit: 5/10 ring PP
AIM SN:
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: Defending in steal situations
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: About a year

[Alex/Mugaaz]

Your First Name: Alex
Location: Fargo, ND
Current Limit: 5/10 full and 3/6 6max
AIM SN: Mugaaz21
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro
Biggest leak: Too aggressive
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: Theory of Poker I guess, but books don't seem to be helping much atm.
Time playing seriously: I've actually been playing online for 7 months, I don't know if anything else counts as serious before that.

Your First Name: Tim
Location: Iowa City, IA
Current Limit: 3/6
AIM SN: BigTWie
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: Too loose from blinds
How many Tables?: 1-4
Favorite Book: Word Freak by Stephan Fastis
Time playing seriously: Year and a half

[newhizzle]

Your First Name: Mark
Location: Chapel Hill, NC(Boone, NC right now)
Current Limit: 3/6, should be back at 5/10 within a week or so
AIM SN: newcastlekb
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro
Biggest leak: probably being too agressive against the wrong players
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: TOP
Time playing seriously: 2 years

[mack848]

Your First Name: Simon
Location: UK
Current Limit: 2/4 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Playing tired after work, bluffing calling stations
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously: 18 months

[Shillx]

Your First Name: Brad
Location: San Francisco + San Luis Obispo, CA
Current Limit: $33 SNGs (should I move down? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif)
AIM SN: GamzDealer
Enthusiast (just for fun)....I guess this is me.
Biggest leak: Too many to name. Playing drunk and losing flips for starters.
How many Tables?: 2
Favorite Book: I don't really read much.
Time playing seriously: ~ 2 years

[hobbsmann]

Your First Name: Hobie
Location: Cambridge, MA
Current Limit: 5/10 6max and 10/20 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: paying off big street raises too much
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Illuminatus! Trilogy (SSHE for poker)
Time playing seriously: 6 months

[ebranig]

Your First Name: Evan
Location: Santa Cruz
Current Limit: 10/20
AIM SN: ebranig
Pro: semipro (college student)
Biggest leak: blind situations
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: HPFAP
Time playing: 1.5 years (1 seriously)

Your First Name: Jens
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Current Limit: 5/10 Full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast, I have a fulltime job.
Biggest leak: If only I knew. . .
How many Tables?: 3
Favorite Book: For poker I guess HEFAP or TOP
Time playing seriously: Seriously. . . I guess 8 months.

[silkyslim]

Your First Name: Dave
Location: Champaign, IL
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: silkymademecry
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro
Biggest leak:girlfriend
How many Tables?:6
Favorite Book:perks of being a wallflower
Time playing seriously: < 1 year

[toss]

Your First Name: Jefferson
Location: Van Nuys
Current Limit: 3/6,5/10
AIM SN:
Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Don't got to showdown enough, too passive sometimes, too aggro sometimes, low vpip.
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book:Anything by Crichton
Time playing seriously: About Ten Months

[Evan]

Your First Name: Evan
Location: New York
Current Limit: 10/20 6m
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): I don't know. I don't have any job besides poker, but I'd hardly qualify my play as "full time". I'm in college too, can that get me a special distinction? I guess not, so I'm a pro...a part time pro.
Biggest leak: Motivation
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: Ones taht are made into good movies
Time playing seriously: A year and change...like 3 months?

[flopmonster]

Your First Name:MARK
PHILLY
2/4, 3/6, DRUNKEN 15/30
MSTERM50
Semi Pro (part time)
dRUNKEN PLAY
How many Tables?: 6-10
Favorite Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously:1 YR

[flopmonster]

SUPPPPPPPPPPPPDOG

[TemetNosce]

Your First Name: Michael
Location: Columbus, OH
Current Limit: 2/4 Full Ring
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast, headed to Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Too tight preflop
How many Tables?: 2-3
Favorite Book: SSHE & HPFAP
Time playing seriously: 1 1/2 years

[mjohnson406]

Your First Name: Mark but people call me Johnson
Location: Orono, Maine
Current Limit: 2/4 full
AIM SN: yankeesblowass
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): part time
Biggest leak: not posting on 2p2 enough, fixing this would help me fix most of the holes in my game
How many Tables?: 6-8
Favorite Book: Moneyball
Time playing seriously: 3 months seriously, 12 months half serious/not knowing what I was doing (probably still don't)

[mantasm]

Your First Name: Brian
Location: Austin, TX
Current Limit: 10/20
AIM SN: martinfutureking
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: (._n_.)
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: (_|_)
Time playing seriously: a little over a year

[@bsolute_luck]

Your First Name: Pete
Location: Delaware
Current Limit: 2/4 6-max
AIM SN: n/a
Enthusiast (just for fun)
Biggest leak: playing live weak/tight, value-betting river, quick on tilt.
How many Tables?:1-2
Favorite Book: anything by Stephen Lawhead
Time playing seriously: 8 mo.

[crunchy1]

Your First Name: Pat
Location: Duh!?
Current Limit: 2/4 Full/Short
AIM SN: capncrunchmm
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro
Biggest leak: Too loose combined w/too much aggression
How many Tables?: 4 - 8
Favorite Book: To Kill A Mockingbird
Time playing seriously: 6 years (which includes a 2 year hiatus somewhere in the middle)

[Bascule]

Your First Name: Matt
Location: Manchester, UK
Current Limit: Between $2-$4 and $5-10, learning 6max
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Haha lost my job recently, guess that makes me a pro
Biggest leak: Weak tight & not betting river enough
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Anything by John le Carre
Time playing seriously: 2 years

[PTjvs]

Your First Name: Joe
Location: Dayton, OH
Current Limit: 2/4 full & 3/6 6max
AIM SN: Pokerrahv
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast (full time crappy job, although recently I've been making more at poker)
Biggest leak: Not folding & trying to bluff calling stations
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: Hyperion/Endymion (Simmons, not Keats)
Time playing seriously: 18 months

Ironically, I have an English degree & love to read, but have still never read a poker book.

jvs

[TripleH68]

Your First Name: Robert.
Location: Toledo, Ohio.
Current Limit: 2/4.
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast.
Biggest leak: Playing when tired, poor table selection.
How many Tables?: 2-3.
Favorite Book: The Celestine Prophecy.
Time playing seriously: Since January 2005.

[lufbradolly]

Your First Name: Aron
Location: Grimsby, England
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: n/a
Semi Pro (part time),
Biggest leak: Playing from the blinds.
How many Tables?: 6
Favorite Book: Poker nation and the godfather
Time playing seriously: About a year

[krimson]

Your First Name: Derek
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Current Limit: 3/6 (6-max)
AIM SN: (MSN: krimson_rtcw @ msn.com)
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro'ish I guess
Biggest leak: Tilt
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: SSHE / Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Time playing seriously: 1 Year.

[car ramrod]

Your First Name: Dathan
Location: Columbus, OH
Current Limit: 2/4 & 3/6 6max
AIM SN: -
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): fun, but the money is handy
Biggest leak: thinking people are making moves on me
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: sshe
Time playing seriously: 1 year seriously, since I was 13 for fun.

[DMBFan23]

[ QUOTE ]
Just thought it would be cool to get to know a few more 2+2ers SSH players. Reply with the blanks filled in! Feel free to leave any question blank.

Your First Name: Kevin
Location: Arlington, VA
Current Limit: 5/10 and 10/20 6max
AIM SN: UVAguy03
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: I suspect it's folding too much, but if I knew my biggest leak I'd be at a bigger limit /images/graemlins/smile.gif
How many Tables?: 2 usually, plus I'm surfing 2+2 or watching family guy. I could probably play 3-4 if I concentrated on the tables.
Favorite Book: Tie between Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Atlas Shrugged, and Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. Also Door to December by Dean Koontz is really good. and I liked The Great Train Robbery a lot...
Time playing seriously: (limit hold em) 1 year and 3 months, give or take a month (summer of last year = .10/.20 at AP, though I played with friends before that.

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[soweak.]

Your First Name: Jeff
Location: Northern VA
Current Limit: 3/6 & 5/10 online, 10/20 & 15/30 live
AIM SN: na
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro
Biggest leak: NL Tournaments, Time management, and variance
How many Tables?: Online 2-4, Live 1
Favorite Book: Ace on the River and SSHE
Time playing seriously: been playing for two years, started paying dividends about 10 months ago.

[jskills]

Your First Name: Jim
Location: NYC
Current Limit: 2/4, trying to crack 3/6
AIM SN: oktrom
Semi Pro (part time) - I have a full time job, but still try to put in about 50 hrs / month to make extra income.
Biggest leak: Too often fighting for small pots. Calling down after getting raised on the turn.
How many Tables?: 3, sometimes 4
Favorite Book: Tales of Ordinary Madness (Bukowski), Budding Prospects (TC Boyle), Junky, Naked Lunch (Burroughs), The Kukoo's Egg (Stoll) - too many to list really.
Time playing seriously: a bit less than a year


Things I noticed we're *not* including in these profiles is the sites we play and handles we use on them. Is this on purpose?

[Octopus]

Your First Name: Steven
Location: Austin, TX
Current Limit: 2/4 - 5/10
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest known leak: wimpy river play
How many Tables?: 2-4
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: since August 23, 2004 (date I got SSH).

Your First Name: Gary
Location: St Louis, MO
Current Limit: 3/6
Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Pushing marginal hands in small pots
Favorite Book: Sklansky et al low limit hold'em book
Time playing seriously: 1 year, been profitable for 4-6 months.

[RatFink]

Your First Name: Tom
Location: Long Island, NY
Current Limit: 2/4 Full, 1/2 6-max
Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast, but not just for fun.
Biggest leak: Too tight. Need to LAG it up a bit more.
How many Tables?: 3 - 4
Favorite Book: Weighing the Odds in Hold'Em
Time playing seriously: 14 months. Have played for many years, but not well nor seriously until last 14 months.

[imported_CaseClosed326]

Your First Name: Rob
Location: West Chicago(hometown)/ Macomb(college) Illinois
Current Limit: 1/2 6max
AIM SN: CaseClosed326
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): It's my only income, but I still live with my parents when I am not at college...so I can't say pro.
Biggest leak: I don't have a luckbox.
How many Tables?: 4ish
Favorite Book: TOP/King Yao's
Time playing seriously: 6 months.

[gr8vertical]

Your First Name: Marcus
Location: Lawrence, KS
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: gr8vertical
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): I would say Semi Pro, this is paying the bills I suppose.
Biggest leak: This forum should help me find out.
How many Tables?: 2-4 Until I get another monitor
Favorite Book: SSHE, TOP, HEPFAP
Time playing seriously: Been playing 2 years. I would say seriously 4 months.

[Crveballin]

Your First Name: Kevin
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
Current Limit: $3/$6, taking shots at $5/$10
AIM SN: PM if you want it.
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun):whatever 2 hours a night is
Biggest leak: No rakeback deal
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Jurassic Park
Time playing seriously: ~1 year

Your First Name: Brook
Location: Arkansas
Current Limit: 2/4 online, 4/8 10/20 live
AIM SN: HappydazA3
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Just for fun, but I've been paying some bills with the winnings.
Biggest leak: Tilting. Patched four holes in my wall this week.
How many Tables?: 4 -5
Favorite Book: The Sun Also Rises.
Time playing seriously: 4 months.

[B Dids]

Your First Name: Burton, but I go by my middle, David, but everybody just calls me Dids.

Location: SEATOWN

Current Limit: 3/6 short.

AIM SN: DashboardIrvin

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): The different between semi-pro and enthusiast is kinda silly. Sure I play for fun, but given my earn at fun, semi-pro feels more appropriate.

Biggest leak: If I knew, it wouldn't be my biggest leak. Probably simply the fact that don't play enough.

How many Tables?: If you play more than 2 your hands will fall off.

Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

Time playing seriously: I gave that nonsense up like 6 months ago.

[jason_t]

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Your First Name: Rob
Location: Seattle
Current Limit: 10/20
AIM SN: n/a
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Thinking I can outplay too many people postflop
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: currently, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time playing seriously: 1.25 years

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[jason_t]

[ QUOTE ]

Your First Name: Burton, but I go by my middle, David, but everybody just calls me Dids.

Location: SEATOWN

Current Limit: 3/6 short.

AIM SN: DashboardIrvin

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): The different between semi-pro and enthusiast is kinda silly. Sure I play for fun, but given my earn at fun, semi-pro feels more appropriate.

Biggest leak: If I knew, it wouldn't be my biggest leak. Probably simply the fact that don't play enough.

How many Tables?: If you play more than 2 your hands will fall off.

Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

Time playing seriously: I gave that nonsense up like 6 months ago.

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[TheHammer24]

Name: Ryan
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
AIM Handle: I'll throw it out there: Shaha23
Current Limit: 2/4 Full, maybe I'll grow a pair and play 3/6 within a week, as I have qualified with the 1000BB rule
Biggest Leak: Too many, but probably Tilt and Ignoring reads
I guess I'm Semi-Pro
Tables 4
Favorite Book: SSH is the only book I got paid to read
Time playing seriously: Winner for a year, actually a winner since June probably.

[Dick in Phoenix]

Your First Name: Dick
Location: No. Virginia (DC area)
Current Limit: 3-6 to 6-12
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Just for fun, and not very often since I left AZ
Biggest leak: can be weak tight
How many Tables?: 1 (prefer live)
Favorite Book: All time: Lord of the Rings trilogy
Currently reading Harry Turtledove's 8-book alternative history (the first is How Few Remain ). Subject: what if the South had won the Civil War? Fascinating.
Time playing seriously: 5 years but inactive right now

[Bluffoon]

Your First Name: Jim
Location: Jersey
Current Limit: 3/6 5/10 2/4
AIM SN: N/A
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Semi bluffing addict
How many Tables?: 2-3
Favorite Book: Poker Inside the poker mind. Non poker For Whom the Bell tols
Time playing seriously: 2 yr

[Webster]

Your First Name: Rod
Location: Madison WI
Current Limit: bouncing between 1/2 and 5/10 - 3/6 average
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun):Semi Pro
Biggest leak: about a minute and a half
How many Tables?: 2 sometiems 3
Favorite Book: Weapons of Choice (alternate History)
Time playing seriously: 12 hours a week

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Your First Name: Jeremy
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast for now
Biggest leak: Calling down/ Overplaying good not great hands
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: I have been playing for a year but just got serious about 4 months ago.

[callmedonnie]

Name: Jordan
Location: Boulder, CO
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM:
Pro, Semi Pro, Enthusiast: I guess semi pro. I am trying to build up the bankroll to be a temporary pro, at least while I try and get into grad school.
Biggest Leak: Not showing down, makind dumb move OOP.
How many tables? 4.
Favorite Book: Huck Finn, Catch 22, Breakfast of Champions.
Time Playing Seriously: Started playing 2 years ago, thought i got serious about 9 months ago, got serious about 6 months ago.

[brettbrettr]

Your First Name: Brett
Location: NYC
Current Limit: 3/6 and 5/10 short
AIM SN: brettbrettr
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Calling down too much
How many Tables?: 2 short, 2 full or 4 full. The point is no more than 2 short.
Favorite Book: Garbage by AR Ammons
Time playing seriously: 1.5 yrs.

[sean c]

Your First Name: sean
Location: OKC, OK
Current Limit: 2/4 party/4/8-15/30 live
AIM SN:
Just for fun
Biggest Leak: Too many to list
How Many Tables?: 2 any more and I misclick and play like crap
Favorite Book: Trout Bum by John Geirach (any of his books really)
Time Playing Seriously: About a year

[SeaEagle]

Your First Name: Sea
Location: Ann Arbor
Current Limit: 15/30 when I'm trying to improve my game/make real money. Although I'm spending about half my time right now goofing around with a "full bankroll in play" experiment. I dropped $100 into a party skin and always put the entire BR into play every session. The swings are awesome. Right now my BR is playing 5/10 and 3/6 but on any night a good loss can send me all the way back to 2/4.
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast, I guess, since I have a good job and just use my poker winnings for luxuries.
Biggest leak: Playing too soft on the flop and then pushing too hard on the turn and river.
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: One of a Kind/Stuey Ungar story.
Time playing seriously: 18 months

[sfer]

Your First Name: sfer
Location: Stuck, which apparently is close to Williamsburg.
Current Limit: 15/30 and 20/40 online
AIM SN: not_sfer
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Same as Entity
How many Tables?: 4-6
Favorite Book: The Great Gatsby
Time playing seriously: Closing in on two years

[PITTM]

Your First Name: Ryan
Location: WESTSIDE. Santa Cruz, CA
Current Limit: 3/6 6m 33 sngs
AIM SN: wayofthexgun
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro i guess? i have very little expenses and im a student
Biggest leak: not calling down enough in live games, jesus i play way too tight live.
How many Tables?: 2-3
Favorite Book: catcher in the rye, plato's republic
Time playing seriously: i started playing 2.5 years ago, i started realizing that i didnt have to suck 18 months ago, i became what i would consider an "expert" nl player about 9 months ago, played about 4 months. then i took a break for 2 months and i switched to limit about 3 months ago. i get too bored playing nl.

rj

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Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

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[davet]

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Your First Name: David (no surprise there)
Location: LA
Current Limit: Say it, I'll play it.
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Proppin'
Biggest leak: Adventuring, giving too much cred to donk bets, ie. following bad reads.
How many Tables?: uno
Favorite Book: Travel's by Michael Crichton.
Time playing seriously: over a year

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[brettbrettr]

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People who like Dave Eggers scare me.

[B Dids]

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People who like Dave Eggers scare me.

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Dave Eggers the person sounds kinda scary.

Dave Eggers the writer is amazing.

[casinogosain]

Your First Name: Ankush, but everyone calls me Ash
Location: Chicago
Current Limit: 3/6 6m
AIM SN: n/a
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Not believing the LAGs
How many Tables?: 2-4
Favorite Book: The Great Gatsby
Time playing seriously: ~1 year

[Entity]

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Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

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People who like Dave Eggers scare me.

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Dave Eggers the person sounds kinda scary.

Dave Eggers the writer is amazing.

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I saw him speak this year at bumbershoot; he was pretty awesome.

[sfer]

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Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

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People who like Dave Eggers scare me.

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Dave Eggers the person sounds kinda scary.

Dave Eggers the writer is amazing.

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I friend of mine has met him a couple of times. Says he's pretty normal.

[kenberman]

Your First Name: Ken
Current Limit: 2/4 to 3/6 short, sometimes 4-8 to 6-12 short
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Laggy play
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: 2001, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Time playing seriously: year or so

[droolie]

Your First Name: Jamie
Location: Boston suburbia
Current Limit: Full 2/4-5/10 SH 1/2
AIM SN: imadroolie
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-pro who plays too few hours...
Biggest leak: Not trusting my reads and calling down anyways. Auto-pilot not working on reads.
How many Tables?: Full=4 SH=2
Favorite Book: I can't pick one but love Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dickens, Twain, Orwell, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, Asimov, Tolkien, Douglas Adams, etc... (reading is goot)
Time playing seriously: 1 1/2 years

[TheHip41]

Your First Name: Derek

Location: SE Michigan

Current Limit: 2-4 full, 3-6 full in a month

AIM SN: TheHip41


Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro

Biggest leak: Calling down too much against passives when I know I'm beat.

How many Tables?: 7

Favorite Book: Fight Club, or any other book by Palahniuk, or, any book by Tom Robbins

Time playing seriously: 7 months

[B Dids]

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Favorite Book: A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius? (people who list poker books here scare me)

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People who like Dave Eggers scare me.

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Dave Eggers the person sounds kinda scary.

Dave Eggers the writer is amazing.

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I saw him speak this year at bumbershoot; he was pretty awesome.

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I'm only basing this on what I know of how his family reacted to the book, how it turned out to be very twisted from what they perceived to have happened, and things like that. Just made him seem unsavory.

[meep_42]

Your First Name: Dan
Location: Phoenix, by way of Washington DC
Current Limit: 3/6 6max, 6/12 live
AIM SN: Meep4269
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Since i'm unemployed, pro -- but i'm part time/enthusiast once I find a job out here
Biggest leak: Not aggressive enough
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: What are books?
Time playing seriously: 1 year

-d

[Jake (The Snake)]

Your First Name: Jake
Location: Washington DC
Current Limit: 3/6 short
AIM SN: TheSnake4986
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): I haven't played a hand on Party since mid-August.
Biggest leak: Using reads, blind play, HU pots.
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Huck Finn
Time playing seriously: 1.5 years

[ZeroPointMachine]

Your First Name: Pete
Location: Las Vegas
Current Limit:2-4
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun):Semi-Pro (making more on poker-real job has benefits)
Biggest leak:I've lived in Vegas for almost ten years. You name a non-poker leak I've had it. The Biggies: All forms of gambling, all kinds of substances, wives, girlfriends and ex-wives.
How many Tables?:4
Favorite Book:I think those records have been destroyed..../images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Time playing seriously: I though I was playing seriously for the last ten years. Reality is more like six months.

[crunchy1]

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Biggest leak:I've lived in Vegas for almost ten years. You name a non-poker leak I've had it. The Biggies: All forms of gambling, all kinds of substances, wives, girlfriends and ex-wives.


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[IronDragon1]

Your First Name: Dave
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: IronDragon129
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Lack of discpline in implementing stragties/things I know I should be doing
How many Tables?: Always >=4
Favorite Book: Snow Country (Kawabata Yasunarii)
Time playing seriously: 6 months

[velvetdog]

Your First Name: Dave
Location: near Sacramento
Current Limit: 3/6 B&M
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: game selection
How many Tables?: B&M only
Favorite Book: The Postman
Time playing seriously: 6 months

[Buck_65]

Your First Name: Brendon
Location: Davis, CA
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: VladRadmanovic77
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Breathing
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Non-poker Book: How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time and Have Her Beg for More (Naura Hayden)
Favorite Poker Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously: 14 months

Your First Name: Quentin
Location: Boone, NC
Current Limit: 2/4, occasionally 3/6
AIM SN: qgill
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro
Biggest leak: weak-tight preflop play
How many Tables?: 2-3
Time playing seriously: 1 year

[DeathDonkey]

Your First Name: Chris
Location: San Diego
Current Limit: 10/20 6m
AIM SN: DeathDonkey1
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): What Evan said
Biggest leak: Hmmm, trying to get unstuck in bad games instead of quitting
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Clifford the Big Red Dog Goes to Hollywood
Time playing seriously: 1.5 years

-DeathDonkey

[B Dids]

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Your First Name: Dan
Location: Phoenix, by way of Washington DC
Current Limit: 3/6 6max, 6/12 live
AIM SN: Meep4269
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Since i'm unemployed, pro -- but i'm part time/enthusiast once I find a job out here
Biggest leak: Isolating Bad Players (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=headsup&Number=3427069&For um=f8&Words=thought%20multitabling&Searchpage=0&Li mit=25&Main=3426935&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name =7882&daterange=1&newerval=1&newertype=m&olderval= &oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post3427069)
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: What are books?
Time playing seriously: 1 year

-d

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FYP

[callmedonnie]

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Your First Name: Brett
Location: NYC
Current Limit: 3/6 and 5/10 short
AIM SN: brettbrettr
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Calling down too much
How many Tables?: 2 short, 2 full or 4 full. The point is no more than 2 short.
Favorite Book: Garbage by AR Ammons
Time playing seriously: 1.5 yrs.

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enthusiast my ass.

[brettbrettr]

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enthusiast my ass.

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well, I don't play "just for fun" and I don't depend on the $. Sure it comes in handy but ....

I'll enthusiast MFUYA.

[sweetjazz]

Your First Name: Mike
Location: Orlando (temporary) until New Orleans becomes habitable again
Current Limit: 10/20
AIM SN: I don't instant messenge
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Overenthused enthusiast
Biggest leak: Either calling down too much against passives or not leaving a table when it loses profitability
How many Tables?: usually 1 or 2, sometimes 4 to build BR
Favorite Book: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Time playing seriously: 1 year

[W. Deranged]

Your First Name: Willy
Location: Cambridge, MA
Current Limit: 5/10 full (online); 10/20 to 20/40 (live)
AIM SN: I hate AIM...
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro... I'm a senior in college full-time, but poker helps to keep me in the manner to which I have become accustomed.
Biggest leak: Paying off river bets that I have no business paying off.
How many Tables?: 4, though my plan is to start adding a fifth Pacific table.
Favorite Book: My favorite poker book is "Theory of Poker"; non-poker... hmmm... The Confessions of St. Augustine (I'm pretty serious about that...)
Time playing seriously: I've played semi-seriously for like 3 years; I've devoted myself to playing serious limit hold'em for about a year.

[W. Deranged]

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Favorite Book: ... plato's republic


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...Awesome...

[PITTM]

what can i say? that book is the balls...philosophy-wise.

rj

[private joker]

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The question was asking for favorite poker book.

[Harv72b]

My First Name: Dave /images/graemlins/shocked.gif But I've gone by Harv on the internet for a long time now, and even have several offline friends who know me by that name.

Location: Elkridge, Maryland. It's a suburb of Baltimore.

Current Limit: 5/10 when I can find a decent table, 3/6 or 2/4 otherwise.

AIM SN: Don't have AIM. I am convinced that all things wrong in the world can be blamed on either AOL, Microsoft, or France.

Semi Pro, deriving a signficant percentage of my total income from poker.

Biggest leak: Chasing losses on bad tables.

How many tables?: Up to 3; I've tried 4-tabling before with mixed results, but eventually intend to be a 4-tabler.

Favorite Book:<font color="white">f</font>The<font color="white">n</font>Illuminatus<font color="white">o</font>Trilogy.<font color="white">r</font> If<font color="white">d</font>this is supposed to be a poker book, then HFAP.

EDIT: since other people are listing multiple books, I'll throw out "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Starship Troupers", and "Dune". But really, there are too many to list.

Time playing seriously: 13 months.

[B Dids]

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The question was asking for favorite poker book.

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But like... it wasn't! I checked.

Also, I'm going to try if meep doesn't notice my attempt to alert him to my thread about him earlier that he didn't notice then.

[Mister Z]

Your First Name: Dave
Location: Nashville, TN
Current Limit: 1/2 6max, 2/4 full, 3/6 full, and the occassional 3/6 SH when I'm feeling saucy
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiastic enthusiast
Biggest leak: Folding winners and calling losers
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: SSHE, reading TOP and HEFAP
Time playing seriously: About 10 months

[hobbsmann]

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Book:[/b]<font color="white">f</font>The<font color="white">n</font>Illuminatus<font color="white">o</font>Trilogy.<font color="white">r</font>


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well put Harv RAW is a genius.

[Harv72b]

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[hobbsmann]

no. do you have a link to them?

[private joker]

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The question was asking for favorite poker book.

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Did you notice that it was surrounded by other questions about a certain card game? And that this getting to know you thing has been called "2+2 style?" I'm pretty sure he doesn't care what our literary tastes are out of the blue.

Mine, by the way, is The Outsider by Richard Wright, closely followed by Kafka's The Metamorphosis. But he was asking about poker books.

[pleyya]

Your First Name: Jesper
Location: Sweden
Current Limit: 5/10 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro / Pro, supposed to be studying but havent done much of that the last 6 months.
Biggest leak: Calling to many rivers
How many Tables?:3
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously:
9 months

[Harv72b]

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Link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345388526/102-3895942-5822507)

That's for the first book in the series. If memory serves, there are 8 total (4 WorldWar titles, and 4 (?) in a follow-up series called Colonization).

[peterchi]

Your First Name: "Haha, your name's Peter"
Location: Baltimore
Current Limit: Transitioning into 6max, at 3/6. 10/20 live.
AIM SN: xanthopod
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Not Pro.
Biggest leak: Getting drunk and playing above my roll/skill level.
How many Tables?: 4-6 at Full, 2 at 6max
Favorite Book: Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics
Time playing seriously: 1.5yrs

[peterchi]

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Your First Name: Dan
Location: Phoenix, by way of Washington DC
Current Limit: 3/6 6max, 6/12 live
AIM SN: Meep4269
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Since i'm unemployed, pro -- but i'm part time/enthusiast once I find a job out here
Biggest leak: Isolating Bad Players (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=headsup&amp;Number=3427069&amp;For um=f8&amp;Words=thought%20multitabling&amp;Searchpage=0&amp;Li mit=25&amp;Main=3426935&amp;Search=true&amp;where=bodysub&amp;Name =7882&amp;daterange=1&amp;newerval=1&amp;newertype=m&amp;olderval= &amp;oldertype=&amp;bodyprev=#Post3427069)
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: What are books?
Time playing seriously: 1 year

-d

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wtf meep?? when did you lose your nutsack?

or was i just special?
meep isolates me #1 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3047322&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;sb=5&amp; o=&amp;vc=1)
meep isolates me #2 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3051254&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;s b=5&amp;o=&amp;vc=1)
meep isolates me #3 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3047414&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;sb=5&amp; o=&amp;vc=1)
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[mtdoak]

I intended for the 'favorite book' to be favorite poker book. Though its been interesting see what everyone else's favorite book is.

[B Dids]

He could have been card dead, but if he was paying attention to the table, he would have had to be pretty epically card dead not to want to take on those two guys.

[Klepton]

Your First Name: carlo
Location: home is LA, but i live in SB
Current Limit: 30-60; 50-100 and 100-200 when they open more tables to make it profitable
AIM SN: sickmanning
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): pro, full time
Biggest leak: results oriented tilt
How many Tables?: 8
Favorite Book: fahrenheit 451
Time playing seriously: 2 years (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=holdem&amp;Number=3057118&amp;Foru m=f2&amp;Words=my&amp;Searchpage=0&amp;Limit=25&amp;Main=3057118&amp;S earch=true&amp;where=sub&amp;Name=17772&amp;daterange=1&amp;newerv al=&amp;newertype=w&amp;olderval=&amp;oldertype=&amp;bodyprev=#Pos t3057118)

[bholdr]

Your First Name: Brian
Location: Seattle, Wa
Current Limit: anywhere from 2/4 to 5/10
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): semi-pro: part time bonuswhore and stud specialist trying to make the transition to LHE. poker pays the cable bill and is my going-out money
Biggest leak: not playing enough, short attention span
How many Tables?: 4+
Favorite Book: SSHE, duh.
Time playing seriously: 2 years

Your First Name: Mike
Location: Chicago 'burb
Current Limit: $2/4
AIM SN: none
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Over aggression/calling down
How many Tables?: 2-3
Favorite Book: poker: SSHE, non-poker: drawing a blank
Time playing seriously: about 3 months

[smb394]

Your First Name: Steve
Location: Philly, PA
Current Limit: $2-4, $3-6
AIM SN: bunsonalthouse
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro (work full-time as mutual fund accountant)
Biggest leak: Playing Tired
How many Tables?: 4 (new 2001fp arriving soon, going to 8)
Favorite Book: 1984
Time playing seriously: 5 months

[Chairman Wood]

Your First Name: Kurt
Location: Saginaw MI
Current Limit:5/10 6max
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): guess by def I'm pro, I'm not good though
Biggest leak: tilt
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: the one I'm writing
Time playing seriously: 18 months

[ejay]

Your First Name:enes
Location: winnipeg
Current Limit: 3/6 full
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): enthusiast
Biggest leak: tilting
How many Tables?:2-3
Favorite Book:
Time playing seriously: started in dec of 04. Playing 'seriously' for last 4 months or so.

[thejameser]

Your First Name: James
Location: Fort Smith, AR
Current Limit: 2/4-5/10 Party; 4/8-10/15 Live
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Enthusiastically
Biggest leak: Half gallon or so? It is tough to tell in the urinal.
How many Tables?: 2 or 3; I hate "Auto-pilot".
Favorite Book: 1984
Time playing seriously: Hold 'Em about a year. Limit Hold 'Em about 6 months.

[mowz]

Your First Name: Joshua
Location: Tucson, AZ
Current Limit: 5-10 Party
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro
Biggest leak: Fear of being outplayed sometimes leads to crying calls
How many Tables?: 4-8 depending on my mood, but 7 seems to be the magic number.
Favorite Book: Franny and Zooey
Favorite Poker Book: Play Poker Like The Pros because I think Hellmuth really told a lot of fish how to lose a lot of money. I lost my first $100 because of that book, but I believe other readers have paid me back.
Time playing seriously: 2.5 Years

[bdk3clash]

Your First Name: Brad
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Current Limit: 5/10 and 10/20 6max online; up to 20/40 live
AIM SN: bdk3clash
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro (full time)
Biggest leak: Not being particularly good at poker
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book:
Poker (strategy): "Small Stakes Hold'em" by Ed Miller et al
Poker (non-strategy): "The Biggest Game in Town" by A. Alvarez
Non-poker: "1984" by George Orwell
Non-poker strategy: "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl
Non-poker strategy (insane): "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" by L. Ron Hubbard
Time playing seriously: About two years

[DrewOnTilt]

Your First Name:
John, believe it or not. But I go by my middle name Andrew, hence I am not known as JohnOnTilt

Location: Wilmington, DE

Current Limit: 2/4-3/6 online, 6/12-7.50/15-10/20 live

AIM SN: none

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast but I make good cash at this.

Biggest leak: The one in my bathtub. In poker, it's definitely refusing to stop firing my unpaired blind stealing hand when it is painfully obvious that the BB paired his deuce and is just not going to fold.

How many Tables?: 3

Favorite Book:
Classic - A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies
Poker - SSHE
Nonfiction - American Roulette

Time playing seriously: 1 year

[thesharpie]

Your First Name: Terence
Location: California
Current Limit: 2/4 full, switching to 2/4 6 max in a few days
AIM SN: puresharpie
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enuthusiast verging on becoming a Semi pro
Biggest leak: Making [censored] up mistakes, and playing by the seat of my pants sometimes
How many Tables?: 2-3
Favorite Book: SSHE
Time playing seriously: ~8 months

[Chris Daddy Cool]

Your First Name: Chris
Location: Bay Area, California
Current Limit: 20-40 to 150-300 limit, 10/20 - 50/100 (sucking badly here btw) NL, 10/20 - 80/160 triple draw
AIM SN: poopoo
Biggest leak: Gambling
How many Tables?: 2 to 12, depending on the stakes and my mood
Favorite Book: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Time playing seriously: a little under 2 years

[Argus]

Your First Name: Michael
Location: Edmonton
Current Limit: 3/6-5/10
Msn: vleeborg
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro (subsisting on poker while looking for real work)
Biggest leak: Either playing tired or misplaying A-high hands
How many Tables?: 1-4
Favorite Book: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Time playing seriously: 8 months

[meep_42]

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Your First Name: Dan
Location: Phoenix, by way of Washington DC
Current Limit: 3/6 6max, 6/12 live
AIM SN: Meep4269
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Since i'm unemployed, pro -- but i'm part time/enthusiast once I find a job out here
Biggest leak: Isolating Bad Players (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=headsup&amp;Number=3427069&amp;For um=f8&amp;Words=thought%20multitabling&amp;Searchpage=0&amp;Li mit=25&amp;Main=3426935&amp;Search=true&amp;where=bodysub&amp;Name =7882&amp;daterange=1&amp;newerval=1&amp;newertype=m&amp;olderval= &amp;oldertype=&amp;bodyprev=#Post3427069)
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: What are books?
Time playing seriously: 1 year

-d

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FYP

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wtf meep?? when did you lose your nutsack?

or was i just special?
meep isolates me #1 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3047322&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;sb=5&amp; o=&amp;vc=1)
meep isolates me #2 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3051254&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;s b=5&amp;o=&amp;vc=1)
meep isolates me #3 (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Number=3047414&amp;page=&amp;view=&amp;sb=5&amp; o=&amp;vc=1)
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Holy crap, it's the slam meep thread! :P
I have to look a Did's session, as I was multi-tabling and that was one of a grand total of 4 online sessions i've played this month.

-d
[Edit - I went over that session with jason_t when I mentioned the perfect hand in another brag thread -- I only had about 2 hands that were even marginal isolators in those 35ish hands.]

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Your First Name: Arnfinn (surprise ? /images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
Location: Currently Poznan, Poland
Current Limit: Multitabling 3/6 and 5/10
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro fulltime since May this year.
Biggest leak: Astronomical leak discovered while clearing the bonus playing 5/10 at Tiger Gaming. I thought that since it clears with contributing rake the real rake at heads up/ 3-handed is very low. Thus I have opened 4 tables which has attracted a few heads up sharks to play me. Realized that I win when there are 4 players or more at the table and lose when it is 3 or 2. I will spend a lot of time in HUSH to try to plug it because it probably means I don't get the most out of full ring either.
How many Tables?: 3-4
Favorite Book: Theory of poker
Time playing seriously: Since april this year

[Matt Jenko]

Your First Name: Matt
Location: Cheltenham - UK
Current Limit: 3/6 - 5/10
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-Pro
Biggest leak: Not value betting enough
How many Tables?: 3
Favorite Book: currently The Good Soldier Svejk (see avatar).
Time playing seriously: 6 months

[Nick Royale]

Your First Name: Pär
Location: Linköping, Sweden
Current Limit: 3/6
AIM SN:
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: I fold too much
How many Tables?: 3-6
Favorite Book: The Trial by Kafka
Time playing seriously: 1 year

[jason_t]

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Favorite Book: currently The Good Soldier Svejk (see avatar).


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That's one of the best books ever.

[Matt Jenko]

Glad someone else appreciates it too.

[ErrantNight]

Your First Name: Derek
Location: Boston (LA soon)
Current Limit: 3/6 (down from 5/10)
AIM SN: dluvstp
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi Pro
Biggest leak: Thinking I'm better than I am
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Recently... Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Time playing seriously: about a year and a half

[BigEndian]

Your First Name: Jim
Location: Atlanta, GA
Current Limit: Bouncing between 10/20, 15/30 - sometimes less if my online BR gets tapped.
AIM SN: AIM sucks, AOL sucks.
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast.
Biggest leak: Not paying enough attention to all streets of hands I'm not involved in. Missed value bets.
How many Tables?: 1-2
Favorite Book: Sweet Silver Blues. Oh, poker? Too many but Ace on the River is great.
Time playing seriously: 2 years playing real money. Started out playing 4-6 tables, 40 hours/week. Now I play 1-2 tables, 20 hours a week but try to challenge myself with higher limits.

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Biggest leak: Thinking I can outplay too many people postflop

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You learn to fix this quick 10/20+.

- Jim

[ringwielder]

Your First Name: Chris
Location: UK
Current Limit: 1/2, 2/4, 3/6
AIM SN:
Enthusiast (just for fun)
Biggest leak: low VPIP
How many Tables?: 4 (3 if a maniac on the loose)
Favorite Book: Anything by Sklansky
Time playing seriously: 1 yr

[Bill C]

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Your First Name: Bill
Location: 'Vegas
Current Limit: 4-8 live, 3-6 or 5-10 online
AIM SN: n/a
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast, wishing he could answer Semi-pro
Biggest leak: Blind play
How many Tables?: One
Favorite Book:
Poker: SSH
Non-poker "Memoir from Antproof Case" by Mark Helprin

Time playing seriously: 6 mos or so



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[colgin]

Your First Name: Peter

Location: One step away from rehab (or New York City)

Current Limit: $5/10 6-max LHE (with some forays into $10/20 (online) or $6/12 or $7.5/15 live; micro/small stakes NLHE, Omaha 8 and TDL (online)

AIM SN:

Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast

Biggest leak: Calling down too much when raised or check-raised on the turn

How many Tables?: 3-4 (online obviously)

Favorite Book: "In Search of Lost Time" (aka "Remembrance of Things Past") by Marcel Proust (non-poker); "Theory of Poker", "Small Stakes Hold 'Em" and "Weighing the Odds" (poker)

Time playing seriously: 2 1/2 years

[QUAHOGMAN]

Your First Name: Chris
Location: New Jersey
Current Limit: Back down to 1/2
AIM SN: messtoph
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Missing reads on board
How many Tables?: 2
Favorite Book: GSIHE
Time playing seriously: not seriously about 1 year, seriously 2 months

[Dagger78]

Name: Doug
Location : Indianapolis
Current Limit 2/4
AIM SN: Still avoiding AIM like I did cell phones.
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Pro meaning I play for a living.
Biggest Leak: Distraction
How many tables: Fing up 8-tables currently
Favorite Book : SSHE
Time Playing Seriously: Year and a half, Winning for a Year.

[SmileyEH]

Cameron
Somewhere in Europe
5/10 full
Pro as I'm taking a year off from school
biggest leak: steaming/confidence
4 tables
lord of the rings
1 year

-SmileyEH

[four eight suited]

Your First Name: Zack
Location: Carrollton, Tx
Current Limit: eurobet 3/6 6max + live 2/5NL
AIM SN: &lt;too incriminating&gt;
Pro
Biggest leak: missing river raises
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: HEPFAP, HOH 2
Time playing seriously: limit: 3 months NL: 2 years

[The Legend]

Your First Name: Dave
Location: Madison Heights, MI
Current Limit: 2/4
AIM SN: theanimal8 IM me anytime, i want to start talking poker with more peoples
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Semi-pro
Biggest leak: Messing with people when they 3-bet preflop, not paying enough attention
How many Tables?: 4
Favorite Book: Theory of poker
Time playing seriously: 6 months

[Token]

First Name: John
Location: San Jose, CA
Current Limit: 2/4 or $20+2 SNGs
AIM SN: n/a
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Passive play with marginal hands
How many Tables: Never more than 2
Favorite Book: TOP
Time playing seriously: 1 year

[Catt]

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Just thought it would be cool to get to know a few more 2+2ers SSH players. Reply with the blanks filled in! Feel free to leave any question blank.

Your First Name: Jeff
Location: SF CA Bay Area
Current Limit: 10/20 6-max
AIM SN: Not sure - only used it to sweat Joe Tall one day; don't use IM
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Thinking I can outplay others; overplaying; playing drunk - not sure which is biggest
How many Tables?: 3
Favorite Book: Non-Poker: a number of Evelyn Waugh novels; Poker: TOP
Time playing seriously: about 1 year

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[Luv2DriveTT]

Your First Name: Most people call me TT, it works for me... but my real name is Steven
Location: NYC
Current Limit: 3/6 short online, 15/30 live
AIM SN:
Pro (full time), Semi Pro (part time), Enthusiast (just for fun): Professional Enthusiast
Biggest leak: Online- Focus, B&amp;M - Friendship
How many Tables?: 3 to 4
Favorite Book: Currently it's How Good is your Limit Hold'Em
Time playing seriously: A bit less than 1 year.

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[Luv2DriveTT]

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Favorite Book: Autobiography of Malcolm X


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ooohh.... that was a good one. Excelent choice, everyone in America should read this at one point in their life.

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[rmarotti]

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Just thought it would be cool to get to know a few more 2+2ers SSH players. Reply with the blanks filled in! Feel free to leave any question blank.

Your First Name: Rich
Location: NYC, the worst city in the universe
Current Limit: 5/10 or 10/20 (depending on how jason does)
AIM SN: richardmarotti
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: preflop
How many Tables?: 2-4
Favorite Book: Brothers Karamazov, not close.
Time playing seriously: 1.5 yrs

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[winky51]

Your First Name: Al
Location: Florida, Fort Lauderdale
Current Limit: 3/6 FR, 3/6 SH, 5/10 SH, $200 NL, $100 NL
AIM SN: Are you kidding me I hate those things
Semi Pro (part time)
Biggest leak: Not seeing the marginal hand thats worth a call.
How many Tables?: 4 FR, 2 SH... My brain can't handle more.
Favorite Book: Harrington's NL tournament books, and Mr. Waa's "Beat the crap out of the player who just sucked out on the river, and not go to jail."
Time playing seriously: Since 1/1/2005. Saw some hillbilly win the WSOP and thought "hey I can do that" Never played poker before that time.
Web Site: http://www.texasholdempoker-stats.com/