I am a 27 year old 3L finishing up my law school career in New York City. I currently live in Brooklyn where all of my money play takes place at the poker table in my room that serves as a 3rd table when not in use (one of the reasons I chose my current apartment was because it is big enough to house an 8 person poker table).

I will be finishing up and studying for the bar come next year. I have promised my family I will not play online for money (and dont play for more than $10 in my homegames) until I am gainfully employed and not playing on borrowed money.
Once I do start working I will probably be restricted to $5 or $10 turbo SnGs for the first couple months, as a break from working full time/studying for the bar full time.

I arrived at the forum because my uncle (woody) started a poker journal and I enjoy keeping up with his exploits. He is a methodical, solid full ring LHE player. I tend towards NL tourneys. I enjoy the variation in strategy that tournaments force you to contend with. I think of tourneys more as sporting events. I also enjoy PL/NL O8. I will eventually be working on both my NLHE and LHE ring games, mostly as a way to stay balanced and possilby as ways to keep down the fluctuations that running hot and cold in tourneys may bring.

I learned to play poker at the ripe old age of 4 in Las Vegas. My grandfather was a gambler who enjoyed Vegas, so he would go a few times a year. We were walking through the Sands when we ran into someone (host, gm I really have no idea, I was 4 and a lot of people who worked there would stop to talk to my grandfather). He asked if there was anything we needed. My grandfather asked if he had a deck of cards, as I wanted to learn to play. We sat down in the coffe shop/cafe and the guy returned with a deck of cards and a dealer. He sat there for the 20 minutes it took for me to learn the basics and then my grandfather tipped him something and we went on about our day.

-Jus