Greetings and salutations my fellow poker aficionados,

I live in sunny Arizona. I love to workout and take hikes (early or late) in various areas close to me. Beautiful desert scenery near me. Great in the early mornings or late evenings.

I also love to read. My interests in that area run from sci-fi, fantasy, mysteries, crime dramas, and classical literature to metaphysics and beyond (way beyond). Have read most of Lee Child's Reacher books, the Bourne series, and absolutely love Louis L'Amour's westerns. I also have read and enjoyed Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee series about the tribal police working out of the four corners area.

I am also a big fan of self-help, motivation and positive thinking.

I first started learning poker in the late 90's. I read some books on poker strategy and had a computer program for tournament poker called DD poker. The requirements were that you had to have windows 98 installed for it to work lol.

I started playing online poker in 2001 or 2002 at Party Poker and was hooked. I would get off of work and unwind by playing 3-6 sit-n-gos (SNGs) every night. I only played the small-stakes tables - $1, $2, $5, and if I was feeling adventurous the $10 tables. Sometimes I would multi-table but for me it was more relaxing to just play one or maybe two tables while listening to music. In 2007 party poker closed to U.S. customers and I started playing at Full Tilt. Again I only played small-stakes SNGs.

Because I played only small-stakes I never made much money. There was a site that tracked percentage performance of all the online sit-n-go players and I consistently ranked between number 10 and 20 in the world. I finished in the money a little over 51% of the time. I think the person at number 1 was at 54%. I have no idea how those numbers would stack up today. However, although the ranking was good for my ego, it was probably a meaningless statistic as I was playing against low-stakes players. Might have been a different story if I consistently played stiffer competition in the higher buy-in tourneys.

Anyway, if you made it this far please feel free to friend me.