The Well- cgrohman

[cgrohman]

""""A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except tuesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer" . The man seems pretty impressed, and so he shouts down: Why not on tuesday? and the voice from in the well shouts back: Because on tuesday, its your day in the well."""""""

I said I would do this last week, so here goes. I'm not sure what a low is (as evidence by some O8 I played yesterdya where I paired all 4 of my low cards and thought I had the nut low), so if the question is poker related, keep it high.

Its now 10 am EST. I am climbing out of the well via its newly installed rope ladder around 6.

[PoorLawyer]

Why the hell would you become a lawyer? BIG MISTAKE [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[cgrohman]

Eh. You are right. I've actually wanted to be a lawyer since I was really young. Then I wanted to go into politics, but I have recently realized I can't kiss ass and most people find me obnoxious. I took sometime off after college to donk around at poker and had somd success, but then my mother got on me and I went to law school. I'll likely end up being a federal proesecutor somewhere.

[Brad1970]

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Eh. You are right. I've actually wanted to be a lawyer since I was really young. Then I wanted to go into politics, but I have recently realized I can't kiss ass and most people find me obnoxious. I took sometime off after college to donk around at poker and had somd success, but then my mother got on me and I went to law school. I'll likely end up being a federal proesecutor somewhere.

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You aren't gonna prosecute us for playing online poker are you? Since online poker is illegal nowadays...*cough* *cough* [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[cgrohman]

I actually wrote my "legal thesis" for law school or whatever you want to call it on this whole mess. Its about 150 pages long and it details this whole debacle from the start- circa 1995. It is being published on SUNDAY. I will link to it in the legislation Section fo 2+2 once the link is up.

[PoorLawyer]

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I actually wrote my "legal thesis" for law school or whatever you want to call it on this whole mess. Its about 150 pages long and it details this whole debacle from the start- circa 1995. It is being published on SUNDAY. I will link to it in the legislation Section fo 2+2 once the link is up.

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Is that for your law review? I was just diligent enough to get on a journal, but way too much of a slacker to get anything published....maybe thats why my handle is what it is.

[lambchop]

First off, congrats on the publishing. How about some background info for those of us who don't know? How long have you been playing stud? What limits do you predominantly play? Favorite sites/casinos? Do you play at a variety of places or just stick to the usual big names?

Also, in your opinion, what do you think is the most important aspect of stud in order to be a successful player? I.e. hand reading, game selection, knowing odds, remember dead cards, etc...

[cgrohman]

No, I hated journal work. I used the law review competition (the packet) to do step aerobics- it was liek 2 feet high. No, i was required to write a "scholarly article" in order to graduate. It was a toss up between writing a giant piece of [censored] in about a week or actually putting together something decent. I went with something decent and now its about to be published- from what I have observed, it is the first piece (of length) ever written about the legality of internet poker.

[cgrohman]

My father taught me 5 and 7 card stud on his knee when I was about 5 years old. I played a bit recreationally and what not until college.
I found myself working 3 jobs to afford tuition and alcohol in college. One weekend, I went to AC on a whim (went to school in Philly, or as I like to call it "the Illadelph"). I forget what stud game I actually played, I think it might have been 1-5 spread limit, but I got extremely lucky and destroyed the game.

Then I read Reese's section in super-system and started playing more reguarly and was making a nice profit. After, the year I graduated (technically 2003, but in reality)2002), I moved to New York and played in some of the underground games- limit hold'em up to $20-$40. for the 2nd half of that year, I moved back to AC and discovered the stud games at Foxwoods.

On weekdays, the youngest person playing $5-$10 or $10-$20 stud is about 85 years old. I played extremely agressively and ended up moving up to $20-$40 with a $12K bankroll or so.

Then I went to law school up in Boston. Tried to play bi-weekly at the woods- either $10-$20 or $20-$40.

After talking a bit with Andy Bloch- he is sort of a random aquaintance- In 2004?, I tried my hand at one of those $150 satelittles for the WPT at Foxwoods. I won that and then got into the $1K satellite for the $10K event. Long story short, I was lucky and completely went off on these satellites, taking like 3 out of 4 or out of 5- which garnered me $30K plus a seat.

I used the $30K for tuition and the WPT was a lot of fun- at my starting table, Doyle Brunson was directly to my right, Scott Ngyuen was at the table, so was Mickey Appleman, and Victor Ramdin (monster player). . . and then Hellmuth showed up in the empty seat 3 hours late. So basically I had 25 WSOP braclets surrounding me. I was a little star struck and played about 1 hand/hr Then I got moved to a table with Bloch and Harrington at it. I ended up busting about 100 out of 700 in the event and I really havn't played a tournament since.

During law school, I've lived in San Diego, Vegas, and LA respectively for the summers. In Vegas, I got into about 10K hands at $15-$30 hold'em and made about 1.5BB/hr which isn't great. At the Commerce $20-$40 stud game this summer, I made about $4BB/hr playing maybe 5K hands or so.

I just graduated law school in May, and am clerking in Columbus, OH. I plant o move back to LA once this year is over.I've never really played online, always wanted to, and the day I was about to put money on, the NEtTeller debacle happened. So now, I have to drive 4 hours to play $
$10-$20 live, which almost isn't worth it.

I think the most important thing for any poker player is keeping accurate records. Game conditions, how you are felling, what games, etc etc etc- you must know how you are winning nad waht you are winning. I've encountered alot of poker players, friends even, that think they are winning players when they are not. Keep records. Record wins/loses. Realize if you suck or not.

Obviously knowing the odds/math is crucial to the foundation of any game, but hand reading skills separate experts from decent players.

[*TT*]

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I actually wrote my "legal thesis" for law school or whatever you want to call it on this whole mess. Its about 150 pages long and it details this whole debacle from the start- circa 1995. It is being published on SUNDAY. I will link to it in the legislation Section fo 2+2 once the link is up.

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Rather than provide a link, why not publish it in the 2+2 magazine? I really want to read this. Also contact Howard Schwartz at the Gambler Book Club, he might be interested in reprints - this is a subject he is interested in stocking.

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