There's an old story that goes like this: "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 today, 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 today?' And the voice from in the well shouts back, 'Because today, it's your day in the well.'"This week, World Series of Poker Main Event Octo-Niner Jeremy Ausmus (pictured), who recently signed with the U.S.-facing free-play site HogWild Poker, will be fielding questions in The Well from PocketFivers. You can ask Ausmus anything you want and he'll do his best to answer it. All this just one week before he plays for an $8.5 million top prize in the Main Event. Click here for the Jeremy Ausmus Well.
Ausmus is daddy and responded to one member's question about who or what he attributes his success to by saying, "I would have to credit my Mom for a lot of my success. She has had a major influence on who I am today and has always been very supportive of anything I do. I've always felt very blessed to have a mother like her."
The subject of family has come up in Ausmus' Well several times already. On how he balances family and poker, the 2012 WSOP Main Event October Nine member conceded, "If you treat poker like a job like I always have, balancing the two isn't that hard. The hardest part is finding hours that are profitable (daytime) and still having time for them in the day. I can't play poker all night and sleep all day like many pros."
Other questions posed to Ausmus that could be answered in the coming days include:
Is Robert Salaburu as much of a massive piece of shit in real life as he appears on TV?
How excited is your family about this final table?
What are your poker plans after the final table?
Are you a fan of the delayed final table?
On Wednesday night at 9:00pm ET, Ausmus will be featured in a freeroll on HogWild Poker that awards a trip to Las Vegas to the winner. As a special bonus for the PocketFives community, HogWild Poker is giving a new Kindle Fire HD to the highest finishing member or reader of our site. To claim your prize, just sign up for HogWild Poker and then post your finish position in this thread by 11:59pm ET on Thursday, October 25. The person who posts the highest finish position wins a Kindle Fire.The Main Event resumes on Monday, October 29 at 8:00pm ET. Sign up for HogWild Poker today and ask anything you'd like of Ausmus in The Well.
