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To: George Statham who wrote (391)	2/10/2014 7:34:31 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 935

Sure, Super System is the bible and has chapters by the best in the world. The chapter on no limit was written by Doyle Brunson. Two time world champion. He played out of the same poke as Amerillo Slim and Sailor Roberts. The best I did in no limit was a tourney with 1,000 people who paid $179 each and I took first. On line at poker stars. $35,000 first place. Still have my little trophy. But I am too old to get really good at no limit, but baring dementia I can probably beat limit up to ? for the rest of my life. Certainly $15/$30. When I went on the road 6 years ago every night I won I put 25% in one envelope for each kid and threw it in the mail. One was still in college and the other is married to a poor research scientist and physics professor at Portland state university. So every day when they went to the mail box they never knew whether dad had won that night or not. I was traveling up and down the west coast. One kid lives in Eugene and the other in Portland. When I went through Eugene I would take my girl and all her friends out to the fanciest restaurant in town and they could order anything they wanted. I could play 14 days in a row and then needed to take a week or so off and rest my mind. I was always carrying 4 or 5 thousand in hundreds, so it was mad money. My older daughter ( a lawyer) is still put off a bit by my wild style, but my younger daughter encourages me. She once said: "dad if you played and lost then we would have a gambling problem, but you play and win, so go for it-lol". When I visited her I could get stoned and ride my bike along the Willamette river bike trail. Beautiful. But not at my other miss goody two shoes kid-lol. I could only drink there. God only knows where that came from? Most conservatives would be aghast at how I raised those kids. Totally permissive. No rules, no punishment and all my hippie friends smoking pot around them all the time while debating the meaning of life-lol. One day when I was smoking pot and drinking beer with my ex's husband (a legislator and lawyer) miss goody two shoes was standing there. She was 14. In a moment of sanctimonious ferver he stood up and said: "but you are not allowed to smoke this until you are 18. She put her hands on her hips and said: "let me get this straight, you guys are the problem, I am not the problem-lol". As we sat drooling-lol.