Hey everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 33 and recently married...for the second and last time. I live in Missouri City which is a suburb of Houston. I'm a tax accountant by day, strictly big corporation federal and state. By night...

I like to play a little poker. Since there are no casinos or legal card rooms in Texas I mostly play online. I do get out to Vegas 2-3 times a year as well as Louisiana to play at the boats. I'm strickly a low-roller, $3/6/12 and the like as well as MTT.

I've been playing online for about 2 years. I started out on Pokerstars and still play there occasionally, but only SNGs and MTT. These days I spend most of my time at Party playing $1/2, $2/4 and $3/6 with an occasional SNG sprinkled in for fun. Recently I ventured over to the Crypto sites to try my hand at a little Bonus Whoring. What a miserable time! Non stop run of bad cards, bad luck, and bad decisions on my part. I think I'll just stick to Party thank you very much!!!

Anyway, I'm a member of a few other message boards but most of them have turned into way too much non-poker related material. I'm a huge student of the game and am very exicted about this forum. Hat's off to y'all for running this thing. I'm very interested in improving my LLH game as well as my SNG win rates. This board looks to be exactly what I was searching for. I look forward to reading future posts, submitting questions, and reading your thoughts and opinions.

Take care,
Big Leon

Welcome Leon, thanks for the praise of this site, it really is a great place to learn and discuss poker, and occasionally talk trash, well we try to keep that in the anything goes section. It sounds like you are a limit player, though I personally suck at limit poker, we have some really good limit players, Piers is a pro limit player and is very good at answering questions.

Best of luck

I've been reading some of Piers postings. Geez, I sure hope I don't find him at my table anytime soon!!

I'm planning to take a few shots at NL soon. Most of my success has been in $10-$20 SNGs. Limit really hasn't done much for me to date, but I really think I need the experience of it. If anything, it really teaches patients and board analysis. Anyway, once my bankroll gets a little bigger I'll get in there on some NL too.

Leon,

You do learn a lot about reading the boar playing limit, but other than that NL and limit are two completely different games, my best suggestion to you would be to start by getting really good at one of them and then after you have had consistant sucess Peronsallly I hate limit, I get frusterated not really being able to protect my hand against a draw. If you have any NL questions we have some top notch NL players on this site.