You've seen me make announcements in the forums, you notice I am "RED", you've seen my user title "LeggoPoker Admin", but you probably don't know who I am.

My name is Chris Tickner, I am 20, and I am a Co-Owner of LeggoPoker (along with Greg Brooks whom you definitely know from his videos, coaching lessons, or from reading about his vast poker knowledge).

I am the guy who makes sure the videos get put online, the guy who is in charge of web development here, and the guy who couldn't wait to finish these blogs so he could finally write in one. Actually I can't take all the credit for the blogs (or for much of the "look" of LeggoPoker). I certainly have the final say in these matters but ultimately it’s the brain of Craig Bauer, our designer, who makes our ideas look pretty. Craig posts on LeggoPoker under the screen name Efficent and is also the mod of the Psychology forum here at Leggo.

This isn't my first blog. Actually LegoPoker.com (the original site before lawyers told us we should change our name to LeGGoPoker) was originally created as MY POKER BLOG. This website has a very interesting history, which I am sure I will post about in the future. Quickly though, it went from being my poker blog, to a FTP hand converter, to the best converter on the internet, to the best training site on the internet today, and I'd love to expand on all of that in the future.

If any of you actually read my blog back in 2006 you would know my poker history. I don't want to bore you too much on this first post so I will expand on my poker history also in a later post - but quickly: I started "bonus-whoring" full ring limit hold'em in 2006 and by June started playing No Limit where I went from $25NL -> $600NL in 6 weeks ($500 BR to just over $17,000) before I went on monkey tilt and lost most of it back before starting to grind back up to $200NL since. My history hasn't been all that great in the mean time and I spent most of my time developing this website rather than playing. I 12 tabled $100 NL this past summer with marginal results (although I did make enough to scrape by and had a few good months).

I think that's enough for one post. I like to keep my blog posts pretty short and to the point for the most part.

As a final note about me: I am currently in my 2nd year of a 4 year business degree at my home town's university (Cape Breton University) and I plan on double majoring in Economics and Finance, while at the same time making LeggoPoker even more awesome and hopefully making some sort of name for myself on the poker tables.

Let's begin.