Hello LeggoPoker!

Since one of you guys posted that you don't know who I am (where have you been, seriously?), I'll just make a post that let's you know where I'm coming from and how I roll, more or less.

I've always loved games and getting very good at them. I played chess when I was very young then moved on to Magic: The Gathering, including a Junior Super Series run and some scholarship money for my college, Wake Forest University.

After all the semi-nerdiness associated with the above games and the attraction to the fact that Chris Moneymaker could win money in poker, I was hooked. Everyone in school was playing little $5 tournaments and it wasn't long until my personality led me to reading books like The Theory of Poker and all the other Sklansky books about Limit Hold'em. I limit-donked for quite a while, a year or so. I borrowed $50 from a friend, casino whored that up into a limit roll, started beating 3/6 limit and a friend showed me the light of NLHE cash.

I got to play party 200nl for about a month and knowing nothing of how to play NL, crushed it. Obviously, I felt like a huge retard for not seeing how awesome NL is sooner, so I got a little bit of a late start learning.

The next year, I met Craig at a random underground game at school that had the most ridiculous rake, I think $6 / hand at 1/2 and 2/5NL full ring games, and $40 buy in tournies here and there. Craig and I won a lot of the time and it was a ton of fun. He introduced me to Greg who couldn't be bothered with such low stakes bullshitting at the time and I was amazed how he was beating 1knl.

Over the year, I came by Greg's place to sweat him and talk about poker whenever he would have me. We all roomed together after that and that's pretty much when I gradually started to consider being a professional poker player.

You have to understand that in my family and the path that I was on during high school had basically nothing to do with this and even I was having some trouble dealing with the gambler's social stigma. For this reason, I still avoid table games.

I've played around with the idea of becoming a high school teacher. My degree from WFU is in philosophy, so I would really like to teach a humanities class of some type. Now, I can't stop until I'm regularly beating 5knl at least (ha, as I say that I'm thinking how the goal always changes) and get some money in the bank for the future.

However, it's seeming pretty easy now for me to dick around traveling all month and not play much to post a $20k month. Chances are high that I tilt buy something epic pretty soon because I've just been saving up my roll and really only spending money on food (note: this is a lot of money given the places I prefer, sirs) and traveling.

Anyways, I've been pretty happy to finally get around to making a video because I love the teaching aspect of the game. I've been coaching for quite a while and basically everyone I'm finished coaching is at least raping 1knl. So if you have any questions about that, PM me here for certain as I could stand to pick up a few more people to teach how to win lots of money pokering.

Here's a graph of something random to quiet the haters... take care guys, see you in my new video forum.

-Reid


Linked from pokertableratings.com

I expect the graph to be a lot more awesome pretty soon.