Getting to Know you.....2+2 style
 

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:

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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)

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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).

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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.

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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 [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Your First Name: Brad
Location: San Francisco + San Luis Obispo, CA
Current Limit: $33 SNGs (should I move down? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img])
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

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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

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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)

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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.

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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)

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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

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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