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Hello fellow Pocketfivers. With therequest of some of my friends and others and to give back to the poker community I havedecided to make a well. To those that don�t know who I am, my name is Francis, I'm 22 years old, bornand raised in upstate New York. I play primarily on Full Tilt and my screennames are The Lab Rat on FTP, The Lag Rat on stars. Unlike the other greatplayers that have made a well in the past I play primarily mid to high-midstakes. This well is dedicated more so towards the mid stakes players butanyone feel free to read and ask me any questions you have. Since I�m not aswell known as the other, great players that have made Wells, I�m going to makea more detailed story of poker career. Hope you enjoy.

<span> </span>Thefirst time I ever played poker was when I was about 18 played with some of mygood friends from High School right before I went off to college. I somehowmanaged to win 2 out of the 3 $5 games that we played without knowing how toplay. Since then I attended the University of Albany (alumni of Hevad Khan andJamie Gold) where I went to study Accounting, starting in Fall of 2006. There Imet some friends in my dorm building that were also interested in poker and weused to play $5/$10 freezeouts in the study rooms up to 3 or 4 nights aweek.<span> </span>I was such a tight noob back thenand slowly kept on getting better and better. At that time I also met one of mybest friends today, John, aka Elitewrestla who developed his game along with me. Then sophomorecame around played a little bit of poker but was mainly focusing on school andat that time I started to get into online poker and I would play the play moneysngs in some of my free time and I really liked it. I remember I once was aplay money baller that had 2.5 million play chips. I just started playing aTight Aggressive style and would improve based on experience.<span> </span>

Then onto summer/ 2008 and Junioryear at the University of Albany fall of 2008 is when I really started gettinginto poker. I started up primarily with low stake sngs and would play the $3-$26 90 man Kos on FTP a lot to build my bankroll. I always had terrible bankroll management and wouldneed to redeposit or get a small loan from a friend on occasion. But I justkept on playing and working on my game. One of my favorite poker memories that upstarted me with online poker happened 3 days before I went back to College. Iwas at a friend�s house planning to chill with a few buddies before I went backto College. We all drank a little bit and I decided to invest my last $15 anddecided to play the Midnight Madness. Back then I didn�t have a lot of moneybut always had enough to make it by. So long story short I somehow managed toship the Midnight Madness six hours later that for $3500. This was such a great experiencefor me because I hadn�t nearly made any kind of money like us this my life. Soonce arriving to college Junior year, I would frequently go with a couple offriends up to turningstone primarily with my good buddy Elitewrestla and we�dplay $1/$2 cash and some of their low stakes mtts.<span> </span>To those of you that don�t know aboutTurningstone, it�s a casino in upstate NY near Syracuse, 1 hour 30 minutes awayfrom my college. Turningstone allows people 18 and over to play poker unlikemost casinos because it is on an Indian Resort. This was when I started to gethooked onto poker and would started thinking of poker all the time. My gradesup to this point we�re always pretty good, I was a B plus student but thingschanged that year.

In the fall of 2008 I met my firstreal online poker player, ManchVegasPwn. I�d see him a lot in the 90 mans and satellitesthat I�d play and asked him for his screen name. He is also a tight player (maybetoo tight) like me and we played a similar style. I remember I used to watchhim deep in mtts and used to give him my problem hand histories and I learnedsooooo much from him. He plugged a lot of my leaks like raise/folding with 10bbs and advice on what hands to open in certain spots and push/fold game etc. Heis arguably my most helpful player in my development into what I am today andcouldn�t thank him enough for helping me out. So that fall I kept playing lowstake mtts/ mid stake mtts trying to build up a bankroll. One of my biggestbreakthroughs happened in December of 2008. I was on a little upswing anddecided to try and satellite into the Sunday Brawl doing a winner takes all SNG.I managed to win the satty and was poised to play the brawl for first time everand my 2^nd Sunday Major ( Elitewrestla staked me in 750k gtd a monthprior to this).<span> </span>This mtt was such a newexperience to me with a tough field. I got off to a good start and just rolledfrom there. I was very nervous throughout the whole mtt. I remember when Igot into the money, I knocked out one of my favorite players, Neonpils when my QQ held tohis AQ.<span> </span>Anyways I started getting deeperand deeper below avg stack for most of the way and next thing I know I�m at theFinal Table of my 1st Sunday Brawl playing for money that seemedsurreal to me. Unfortunately I was card dead at the final table and finished in8^th place. But I won $6850(including my 6 Kos!) and I gained so muchfrom this experience and gained a lot of confidence in my game. <span> </span>Also it gave me a real bankroll to play with. (Ihave yet to cash in this stinking tournament since then, probably playing it2/3^rd of Sundays in 2009) And I just took off from there.

Since then I got more and morehooked on poker<span> </span>and in the middle ofJunior year spring semester, last spring I decided to leave the University tobe with my ailing Grandfather at that time and to take time off from schoolbecause my poor grades that semester. I was making a steady living by playingonline mtts at the time too. <span> </span>So I stayedat home with plans to go back to Albany during the summer and fall. During thistime beginning I met a lot of online regs and got their screen names for aim. This is also when I started to rail a lot of mtts and watch and learn from other great players. Ilearned about different styles of play from these guys and they helped me developinto a better player. A few names of the players that helped me the most wereGrindtherail, Cuteiswhatiaim4, Miguel Santiago, and Big Huni, and The Mini Jew.But there are sooo many more to name. Especially with the help of Grindtherailand Big Huni they showed me how to become more aggressive and different stylesthat are successful and they really opened up my play. I'd also watch players like Moorman, AJK, Gboro, USCPhildo and studied the hands they showed down and learned a lot by doing this.

So to stop boring some of you I�llbrief up my summer 2009- winter 2009. I decided to not go back to the University of Albany at least for now. Have plans of maybe going back. I had a rough end of the summer and had a bigdownswing and with the advice of pocketfives legend, Awesomeo aka Shrubbery Idecided to try to get backed.<span> </span>So wasfortunate enough to find a great backer in September and I�ve proceededto have my four most profitable months of poker since. And now I�m at where I�m at today a successful mid/high stakes player.

I just want to thank all my friendsthat helped me (too many to name) get to where I�m at today, thank thepocketfives community. And also on a side note want to apologize to anyone I�veever berated in the chat. I�ll answer any questions just as long as they�re <span>appropriate.</span> Hope you enjoyed

LOL, real life?

what would u suggest i could do to improve my game?

 

Originally Posted by Jennifear

In before: What do you think of Andresoprano's game?

Damn it! But what do you think of Andresoprano's game?

Question: Is your game different in the MS-tournaments than in the HS-stakes tournaments?

didnt read the op obv far too long sooooo who are you and why do you think you're better than donkcommited?

What are your 2010 goals

What's the main thing for an inconsistant player to become consistant

<3 you TLR...big year 4 u imo

I go to Ualbany as well! I got a picture with myself in front of that closet thing somewhere, ill have to make it my profile pic here on p5's Are you coming back to school? We gotta get some games going, or hit up the stone together. Im from Syracuse so its not far for me.

 

Originally Posted by The Lab Rat

So to stop boring some of you I�llbrief up my summer 2009- winter 2009. I decided to not go back to University of Albany at least for now. Have plans of maybe going back. I had a rough end of the summer and had a bigdownswing and with the advice of pocketfives legend, Awesomeo aka Shrubbery Idecided to try to get backed.<span> </span>So wasfortunate enough to find a great backer in September and I�ve proceededto have my four most profitable months of poker since. And now I�m at where I�m at today a successful mid/high stakes player.

thats a cop out if its just to grind but maybe there is more to it

Will your training site teach how to time the RNG in turbo and super turbo MTTs?

 

Originally Posted by telks

Will your training site teach how to time the RNG in turbo and super turbo MTTs?

 

Originally Posted by telks

Will your training site teach how to time the RNG in turbo and super turbo MTTs?

 

Originally Posted by telks

Will your training site teach how to time the RNG in turbo and super turbo MTTs?

^^^^

Its a long shot but are you willing to teach a micro donk how to play like you... free of charge?

it only gets harder as you move up

i just clicked on your profile and realized i met you at turning stone, you railed when i won. you were a nice kid but you dont deserve a well, ask mods to delete now.

 

Originally Posted by ggIFyouCALL

who are you? why do you think you deserve a well? are you kidding?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLsHP94bvXs

Who dat?