Hey guys, I realize that's it been a while since I've said anything about the book. That's going to change because it's about to pop off!

I just finished up LeggoCast 7 with Aaron, which was tons of fun trying to get in some words while he yammers on as he does recount some Vegas stories, and talk about the book and some strategy. Speaking of strategy, for those of you who haven't seen the interview yet, here is a link to a fun interview I was lucky enough to get to do at pokercurious.com :http://pokercurious.com/interviews/v...oung-interview. Big ups to Matt, aka Probability, for setting this up and Ross for coming up with some pretty fun and interesting interview questions that really helped me get to the heart of what I'm going for with this book.

As far as kind of a FAQ for the book goes, I'm going to put in everything from all the PMs and emails I've gotten from people who have been keeping up with my progress on the book on LeggoPoker and every else.

1. The length of the book is 11 Chapters of varying length, which come to around 75 pages of 12 point font, single-spaced, Microsoft Word. It's long. It's detailed. I've tried as hard as possible to leave no stone unturned. If one is, my LeggoPoker email is in the book and I encourage readers to email me if they think something is left out.

2. There will be a private forum for book purchasers to discuss ideas and concepts, organize sweats or discussions, etc. From time to time, I'll post more information and elaborations on some ideas as the thoughts occur to me (not meaning that I deliberately left things out of the book, just meaning that I plan on getting better at poker).

3. It costs $2500. I know it's a lot for some of you and some of you are smiling and laughing to see it's only that much. I tried to find a decent middle ground, so if this price excludes you, don't fret. I'm sure way down the road the book will sell for less as the information becomes more public, thus less valueable. For now, I want people who are stuck at 200nl to have the option to afford my book as well as the high stakes player trying to fine tune their game. Don't buy the book if it's going to cripple your roll. If that's the case, it's very likely you'd be much better off watching videos or reading a cheaper and more introductory book that isn't as in-depth. I've had a lot of aspiring 100nl players message me about the book. Just keep plugging away for now guys, it's going to be the best thing for your poker carreer.

4. It's going to be a paper back ~150 page 6"x9" book. The hard back version looked like a high school chemistry text! plus I just like the feel and look more of this set up. It'll be easier to carry around and write in.

5. It's copyrighted with random mispellings.

6. It is officially for sale the moment I get the books mailed to me in Charlotte which should be very very close to the 15th of September; however, I will begin taking serious offers now.

7. For payment, I will be accepting any of the following: PokerStars transfer, Full Tilt Poker transfer, cash money (USDs) and Paypal. If other forms of payment become secure and available, I will make them known here. If you need to make some crazy site-to-site trade to get money for one of the sites I listed, feel free to do so.

8. The table of contents is as follows:

I'm putting the book in the mail to the Library o' Congress tomorrow, getting some lunch with a buddy, doing some packing and then I'm heading up to NYC to terrorize the town with Greg and Phil (philipsaurus on 2p2, sorry if I mispelled that one Phil!). After NYC, I'm off to San Francisco to hang out with Derek, his gf Katie (who will be having a lovely bday party in Napa), and Craigles, aka craigthedeac. There are some awesome climbing gyms in San Fran for which I've purchased some sweet new FiveTens because my other ones have wholes in the toe and I didn't know you could just resole them for $10 instead of getting a new shoe for 100$... meh.

Here are the new kicks:


Here is the car I'm going to try to order tomorrow because they apparently take 6-8 weeks to arrive, which will drive me crazy. Yeah, that's a red interior.


Lastly, check out my facebook fan page and feel free to comment about whatever. I'm basically the redargoe of social networking, so let me know if this doesn't work and I'll talk to someone who is more tech savvy.




That's all for now guys. I'm thinking about writing a philosophy book or pamphlet after The Blue Book is finished. I've had some pretty cool ideas in the past few days. Perhaps because of my sickness? Who knows.

Take care guys. I look forward to your emails (to shootaa@leggopoker.com) or your PMs here!

-Reid

Hey guys! Not too much to update about the book now because I'm working through some last minute promotional issues that I can talk about soon, once more is known. I tweeted this one out to those of you following me (see link on the top of my blog), so I only thought it fair to blog about it too.

Here's what is 99% going to be the cover of The Blue Book. A little taste to whet your appetites in the mean time while we wait for printing




PS - I'll be posting car pictures of the one's I'll be test driving this Thursday. I'm excited! On the docket are the Audi S5, the Maserati GranTurismo, and perhaps a Lexus and BMW visit.

Take care guys.

-Reid

edit: Hey guys, my interview at pokercurious.com just went up. Check it out!!

Hey guys,

I'm trying to get back into blogging a bit more often but to tell the truth, it's been pretty tame with me lately. I've been back home at my parent's place before I make the big move to my new place on the 12th of September now and I'm just about to go insane! They live in the middle of nowhere and I get no cell service. For the last 3 days, we were without internet because of a lightening storm, and so I've been replying to PMs and questions about my videos from my phone when I'm out with friends.

We just got internet back and so I thought I'd pose this difficult question to you guys and hopefully get some meaningful feedback: What car should I get?

Here is my top choice:


I'm absolutely in love with this car, the Maserati Granturismo. It looks awesome, sounds amazing, and is just overall a freaking beast. However, I've been reading lately that I should expect it to be in the shop a lot and that shop time for an Italian sports car is pricey (obv). So I figured I'd ask you guys what are some other options without the less reasonable upkeep costs? I would imagine anything like Audi, Lexus, BMW, etc would have a lower relative upkeep cost just because of how common dealerships are and how experienced the average mechanic is with the car ($40 oil chance instead of $300 oil change, $250/mo insurance vs $450/mo insurance, etc.).

I've been working hard on finishing my book, which is about to be mailed to the printers once the back cover is finalized, and I've been working hard coaching. So the bottom line is that I'm looking to splurge a bit on an awesome car. Any suggestions? If you guys can post a picture too, I think that would make things a bit more flavorful. Hell, I might still just get the Maserati!

Hope you guys are well. Thanks for all the positive feedback about my last video. The second part should be out pretty soon.

-Reid

Hey guys, I've been so busy in the past few weeks that I haven't taken the time to keep in touch. So much has been going on that telling everyone about it has beome a somewhat daunting task, but here you go... my last month or so in a single blog entry.

I think Jay-Z said it best when he said "I don’t do to much blogging, I just run the town, I don’t do to much jogging"

Here's my first iPhone 4 video. Who knew the flash light was so bright? Sorry guys! We're minutes away from a tasting menu at Alize, the French restaurant at the top of Palms. I highly recommend a visit!



Here is probably close to the biggest chip stack I had all summer... a measly 55k or so, huge sad face.



My first interview with THE Greg Brooks during play in the WSOP Main Event in the Full Tilt Poker player's lounge. I try to cut him off, but he loves talking I think the tournament player we're talking about is actually at the final table... woo!

Greg Interview. I couldn't get youtube to cooperate with this one, but this is the link.

Pancakes from the Original Pancake House (not IHOP), which is very close to where I'm moving soon. Hangover foooooooooooooooooood!



Here's a slightly fun one. It's me right after UMD Tennis paid me a hundo to chug 4 shots of Belvadere. Jokes on him though because that was basically 1/4 my caloric intake in Vegas. Suckaaaa. FWIW, I'm not white because I'm so drunk, I'm just that white. Hi haters.



I kept the Vegas pictures to a minimum in case someone in my family sees this AND because I have a lot more relavant and recent exciting news to talk about.

MY BOOK IS FINALLY BEING SENT OFF TO PRINT! I'll be printing a few copies, sending those to the Library o' Congress to get some Copyright love and be ready to go! I've been working between 4 and 8 hours on it every day, except the days I've been looking for a new apartment, in the time since I've been home from Vegas. I'll post a picture of the book's cover as soon as things are finalized. Thanks everyone for all the support and love that helped me to finally enter the final stages of this project that's been almost a year in the making! My close friends and everyone in the Leggo community have been fantastic and very helpful.

So I'm sure you guys have been missing my awesome Leggo videos, but don't worry, there will be lot's soon. Keep an eye on Leggo because I'm about to blow up on this bitch. I'll be on an upcoming LeggoCast and be blogging about details of the book soon. I hope you guys are a fraction as excited I am about this thing finally coming out!

I'm moving and getting the grind station set back up essentially as soon as I plan to get all the book production finalized. I'll probably do an MTV Cribs knock-off when we're settled in and things are presentable. Maybe I'll make you guys a drink on camera?

Reid

Hey guys... it's been a while and I haven't had any videos up in a while because my computer went busto. It's in transit from Vegas right now and hopefully I'll have time to get it repaired while I'm looking for a place to move. I have tons of awesome pictures and videos from Vegas that I want to post up doing everything from interviewing friends during the main event to playing dodgeball on trampolines.

My next group lessons are starting Wednesday, so if you're interested in hopping in (the next one will be in 2 months) then PM me on Leggo before Wednesday and we'll get you set up!

Details on group coaching.

I hope you guys are well. I'll post more when I get back to a place I can upload some shit to make this blog more fun to read!

-Reid

Hey guys, it's been a while! I've been busy WSOPing and getting shit on by donkaments, yay summer time! I'm out in Vegas until after the main event, so I'm just settling in and getting into the grind a bit more. There have already been 3 birthdays in our house (there are 6 of us total) and more to come, so the night life isn't not not lacking to say the most.

I don't want to chat too much about tournaments, but I will take you guys through my heads up $10,000 experience because it was just too much fun and pain to not revisit. I walk into the Rio with Greg (mynmsgreg, guido express, etc) and he's like oh man, what if you draw Farha? And I'm like ew... I think it would be like getting that feeling that you're going to lose CCR and then you lose, but don't really care because CCR is fun. He shrugs and laughs, we move on and after they resat us and I'm sitting down waiting for my opponent to arrive. It was pretty surreal seeing all the big names in poker. Usually, it's pretty laughable, but surrounded by all those guys, even Lederer, it was pretty cool. Then...



I feel like Christmas came early and it was pretty cool because we were chatting and Sammy seemed like a pretty fun dude. He was fishing for some information before the match, but I obviously just releveled with nonsense. I also forgot to say raisy daisy... fml.

He check-raises a lot of my cbets with mixed results and he's 3-bet me about 30% of the time to start off, which brings me to my first hand.

Hand 1: I raise KJo, he calls and it comes QsTh9s. I cbet and know what's coming. He raises, I call. Turn 9d, he bets I call. River is somehow the 5h and he checks, basically saying, GL sir, I have KQ/AQ. I bet 6500 into 9000 and he calls pretty quickly, saying he had AQ. I'm up to about 42k from my 30k starting stack.

Hand 2: I raise Kh5c, he calls. KcJh7c. He check-raises. Turn 8c, check check. River Qs, check-check. He confidently turns over J9o, which was funny because I now know he's open for range mergification all over the place.

Hand 3: I raise AKo, he calls. Ks6h2s, he check-raises to 2500, I make it 5300, he shoves, I call. He has 75ss, turn 4s, so I'm down to about 17k. We were playing right beside the rail, so about 40 people saw how stone cold I was when he binked and I like to think that scares people.

Hand 4: I raise AA, he calls. T96r. He check calls.. Turn J. He leads pot I call. River 5. Pot I call q8 good. 14.5k... obv felt gross calling a psb, but whatever, I think it's mehhhh.

Hand 5: I raise red 77, he calls. 7c8c9d, he check-raises and I decide to ship it in and his JT holds. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

That's basically how the series has been going. I feel like I have a huge edge on 99% of these guys and then it's just the same old. I'm still having lots of fun playing and my soul is relatively together still. Hope you guys are well <3 Time for a lazy day of coconut water (top one hangover cure if you're interested in trying it), ordering pizza (pepperoni and pineapple, son!), satting into the main and lazying by the pool after failing satting into the main.

-Reid

Hey everyone in poker land, just wanted to pop in and let you know that the group lessons will be starting within a week, so get in those last minute sign ups. Our internet situation is weird because I think the people renting the house to us here in sunny Las Vegas have yet to turn on the internet.

All my housemates are the shit and this year looks like it's going to be insanely fun and profitable. I saw a white Maserati Grand Turismo on the road today, so I'm channeling that feeling of want for inspiration.

I haven't played poker in a week minus a few 100 hand sessions here and there at a friends place because I've been in San Francisco, which was awesome. I'd seriously consider moving there if it weren't for how close I am with my family, maybe that's fish logic, but maybe not.


My parents got me a FLiP video, which looks like this thingy above depicted. At first, I was a bit skeptical, but the thing takes videos in amazingly high quality. So far I've mostly used it to get funny drunk videos of my friends and me and a few San Fran sites. I'll probably do a Vegas house tour of our place because I think it's the shizzy and I wanna brag on it some

My book is going through it's final editing phase, so thanks to all of you who have been patiently waiting for it's release. Once again, just grinding travels and friends didn't leave much time for book editing. Now I'm in Vegas and I see myself getting into the grind routine as I do pretty well every year, even with this ridiculous pool outside!

Alright guys, just wanted to drop in and say hey and give you a quick update on the book and coaching sign ups and scheduling. Both have been dragging out, so send in those coaching payments and we'll hit the ground running once the internet man hooks us up!

-Reid

I'm usually not that big of an Eminem fan, but this song seems pretty cool and appropriate in a nerdy sort of way.

In the spirit of trying to make this the biggest group coaching group I've ever undertook, I'm posting the information again. I've been taking some time off from coaching in the past few weeks and now I'm ready to hit the ground running with the new group lessons. If you've had coaching from me in the past and you know a friend who might want to sign up, holler at them and we can put you guys in the same group or just holler at them if you like them getting better at poker! So much of what makes people better in poker is the network of people around them. So I'm asking you guys to kick start the networking, and maybe grab some guys who may not see this blog.

For everyone else who has PM'ed or emailed me in the past few weeks, check your inbox here for details on payment if you haven't already paid. A few of my former students have been kind enough to field questions from potential students, so if you have any questions like the "is it worth it" and "how awesome is this really" then those are your guys to get the (confirmed unbiased) answers.

Speaking of former students, I'd like to formally welcome Marvin (Steel108) to LeggoPoker! He's a beast and I'm glad he's ended up in our camp for now.

Below I've copied my former blog entry to get things out in the open a bit more and let you guys know all the information I can think of about my group lessons. As always, post or PM me questions and I'll be happy to work with you to figure everything out and to make sure you are able to make an informed decision about signing up.

It's been a bit since I've posted, so I hope you guys are all doing well! I look forward to hearing from you guys about your struggling buds or just to shoot the breeze about how the poker-coaster is treating you.

-Reid

Hey guys, I promised that I'd make a post today about my new group coaching sign-ups, so here it goes. It may be a little curt because I have some friends in town from D.C., but I just wanted to give you a quick curriculum run-down and price, along with a few tips if it'll be worth it for you or not and I'll append a few details either in a new post or in the comments section of this pot.

1. The price is $2,000 per person.

2. Payment gets you 8 lessons total (5 sweats, one for each person in the group, and 3 theory lessons in presentation format), barring a scheduling conflict. What I mean when I say "scheduling conflict" is that there are an odd number of students, so I'll have to readjust the numbers for each group. I'll do this in favor for you guys because I truly believe it's all about you. I'll give contact information of former students who agree (I haven't spoken to any about this yet, I'm sure many will agree to it) just so you guys can get an unbiased testimony from them. I can post quotations here about what my former students liked about my coaching, but you guys my be skeptical and not trust it, so I want you to hear about it from the horse's mouth.

3. If you'd like to sign-up with a group of friends, please let me know and I'll cater to your needs and make plans for you guys to all be in a group.

4. If you play 100nl, really consider if this is worth it for you. All of you guys will get much better at poker, but I don't want to take 1/3 your role and slow your poker growth that much more. So consider the expected value of what you can do and what you think I can do for you versus how much it's going to cost you. Let me know, there's always next time the lessons start up guys.

5. Lessons are typically an hour to an hour and a half and are recorded with Camtasia and Pamela (a Skype recorder) while we use Teamviewer or Mikogo, whichever is working best, to share screens while we critique play during the sweat sessions. I send out the theory presentations to you guys along with audio, just to save space on your computers. [

B] *[/b]Please make sure that you have a good connection because it's pretty frustrating and embarrassing when I think someone is good to go and they disconnect a lot because they're at their friend's mom's sister's place and we have to get creative to find someone else prepared well enough to sweat.* If we get started late, I don't take it out of our allotted time or if we start on a subject, I'm not going to cut people off just because we're out of time.

6. Lessons are once per week at a time that we all agree on. Sometimes I have to reschedule, but I try to give as much notice as possible (other than the one time I forgot my mic and realized I didn't pack it 5 minutes before the lesson was supposed to start. Sorry again guys!

7. Be wary of daylight savings time if you're outside of the USA.

8. Like I said, I'll group students together based on a few different factors: skill level (see above), time zones (try to avoid making you get up at 10am if you live in Australia), friends (above), and repeat customers.

9. You'll get access to my private coaching forum where I'm especially active and, more importantly, other students are active and always organizing sweats with one another. My goal is not only to get you guys better in the 2 months or so during which we are working together, but also to create a network you have access to long-after our coaching is over. If you put in the effort, you'll find like-minded people out there ready to get better and to succeed with you. I strongly recommend utilizing this part of the group lessons because a lot of what I know from poker has come from conversations with friends about spots or extrapolating from those conversations.

I think this is going to be the basic run-down for now. Like I said, I'll elaborate soon. For those of you who would like to be repeat customers, and I've had a few, I'll incorporate a few different theory lessons for you guys, at least one, because the main 3 or 4 I use are extremely popular and have even gotten me a few requests to be sold on their own (they won't be).

Good luck guys, PM me or leave comment for sign-up requests. Also, please message me your real name, AIM screen name, email address, skype name, and either or both of your Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars names so that we can be in touch.

-Reid


EDIT: I added some more information. PM me if you'd like contact with any former students, I'm not sure if it's ok with them to post contact information here, but there are a few I've checked with who are fine with being contacted by people with legitimate interest in the program.

Just had this hand with my group students, not a huge call IMO but definitely shipping the HH for funny/donk love factor. This group is about to finish up and so when the one guy missed who was supposed to close us out, we agreed I'd play and be sweat some.

Full Tilt, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $810.50
SB: $795.25
BB: $1,158.05
UTG: $811.25
MP: $785.25
CO: $400

Pre-Flop: 9 9 dealt to Hero (BTN)
3 folds, Hero raises to $12, SB calls $10, BB folds

Flop: ($32.50) 6 3 J (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $20, SB calls $20

Turn: ($72.50) 4 (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $52, SB raises to $165, Hero calls $113

River: ($402.50) 5 (2 Players)
SB bets $597.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $597.50

Results: $1,597.50 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed 9 9 and WON $1,594.50 (+$800 NET)
SB showed 8 8 and LOST (-$792.50 NET)


I was glad to see how many responses the post on poker etiquette got. It always strikes me as interesting how people try to apply moral imperatives to a game based on taking money from other people. I think people can still be classy, don't get me wrong. I just think that logically, the implications are hilarious. Classy slow-roll coming soon?

Stay tuned.

-Reid

PS - New group coaching sign-ups are very soon! Like even tomorrow or day after tomorrow style