**** BIRD FEED #35 ****

Thank you cptmorgan for this opportunity. How you picked my name since I'm still a pinky I don't know but I'm honored non the less. Just hope it's because you heard good things about me


Railbird name: A55A55IN
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Location: Cape Cod Massachusetts, USA
Years Playing Poker: 23
Fav. game: NL Omaha Hi/Lo
Fav hand: Omaha Hi/Lo: A2A3 two suits, NLHE: AA
Fav Poker Site? Poker Stars br />

Back when I was first playing poker (over 20 years ago....OMG!!) my friends gave me the nickname Assassin since I liked to lie in wait and let people hang themselves (slow play the small pair or little connectors and catch a set or a straight). When I went to sign up for my first online poker site (partypoker) Assassin was already taken, so I changed the S's to 5's and thus was born A55A55IN

I average probably about 3 hours a day during the week and maybe 6 a day over the weekends....more during the winter and less during the summer.

Tight/Aggressive with a big dollop of sneaky/slow play. (see answer to Question #1). Though in big tourney's I tend to be much looser and passive early in the game since I like to see a lot of flops.

#4 Poker Achievements?

Building up almost a 10k bankroll on Full Tilt over the course of a year while playing for just two hours or one SnG/tourney per day without ever making a deposit (Sold some play chips and won some free rolls to get started). Then I had to cash it out since I needed the money. That was about 2 years ago under another nic.

No where....LOL. Actually 1000 something last I looked. Only been a RB member for not quite 3 months. I miss the 2pm EST tourneys since I'm still at work. And the 9pm EST ones go on too late, I never have enough sleep if I stay up for them. I hope in June to time myself right so I can at least stay up and play in the Ranking Free Rolls, I just wish they'd post some sort of schedule on the site. I also plan not to play unless I'm sure I have it in me to play the whole tourney. That last bit means you'll be seeing less of me in the free rolls.(Is that a sigh of relief I hear?...LOL)

I'm a big fan of Hustlers of all types. Any one can learn a lot from us just by watching.

Unless theres a big raise or I'm really short stacked I'll usually call the flop with a 2,4 off suit. One hand I almost never like to play is 10,4. Another thing I like to do (I don't usually do this in railbirds games) is to invoke Murphy's Law. I do it by saying "May St. Murphy Strike You All.....And Not ME!!!!!" I get some interesting comments. LOL.

Visit my page and read the 10 rules of poker my dad taught me.

On top of these 10 rules: Read, read, and read some more. Books, Websites, the Railbirds forum and blogs, whatever you can find. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!

Once you have the basics down: Play, play, and play some more. Discover your strengths and/or weaknesses and then play to/away from them. Do this by playing every type of game: ring, 1 table SnG's, MTT's, holdem, 5 card, stud, omaha, lo, hi, hilo, no limit, pot limit, and fixed. Each type of game will teach you other aspects of poker that will improve your play in the other poker games. Man made it to the top of the food chain by being versatile, and so do poker players. Specialization is for insects!

During the Railbirds Free Rolls take any criticism to heart and ask questions. Criticism from someone who has posted a lot of poker relevant blogs, or is in the top 200 is usually worth listening to. If your not sure you should listen to them, ask the player their railbird name. Any one worth listening to will tell you what it is and you can look them up. Asking questions at the table is another good thing to do. If they don't answer ask them to send you a private message after the game. Railbirds is a school as much as anything else, and the good players will help the not so good ones get better because someone at some point in their own poker career took the time to tell THEM.

Also check out the videos in this blog by grisan for many poker basics: http://www.railbirds.com/blog/39219

Read, read, and read some more; and play, play, and play some more

I like to see a lot of cheap flops very early and tend to be passive or slow play monster hands more in tournaments. Especially if I have a big stack. I tend to tighten up once past the first couple blind increases or as my stack shrinks and then I loosen up a lot once in the money.

Holdem Tourneys and SnG's and Omaha Hi/Lo Ring Tables.

Relative to the way the player has using time all along, really fast or really slow big bets. Also big bets from position. But those can be dangerous calls since they just might have the nuts too!

To loosen up later in a tourney.

The only thing I really use it for is to remember names and to note real donkeys. They are dangerous and the ones that will take a good player out of a game by surprise.

Numerous SnG's. Haven't been doing many multi table tourneys.

About 2 years ago I won just over $1200 in a tourney on Full Tilt.

When I have the time to sit through the whole tourney it seems to work since I usually get at least some change.

Bow and scrape before your better. LOL. Actually you can ask me anything, even to show cards if you fold to a big bet I make. I'll usually answer, or show my cards, if it's phrased nicely and not abused by asking TOO much. I'm also a wisea55, so if you can't take a joke or cocky wisea55 remarks, right click and select "ignore chat".

Not this year since I can't get the vacation time but like 99% of the players out there I hope to be at the 2008 WSOP. Hopefully on the dime of either Poker Stars or Full Tilt.

I'm a blunt, plain spoken, stubborn bastard. If I think your a dummy or a donk I'll say so. (A donk is a donk is a donk!!!). Don't get upset (or do, I like people on tilt nbsp; ) just ask me why I called you a dummy or a donk and I'll tell you. Just don't get mad at the answer or try to change my mind. Listen to what I had to say and THINK!