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Richard D.Harroch and Lou Krieger  \nForeword by Chris MoneymakerWinner of the 2003 World Series of Poker  \n# About the Authors\n\nLou Krieger learned poker at the tender age of 7,while standing at hisfather's side during the weekly Thursday night game held at the Kriegerkitchen table in the blue-collar Brooklyn neighborhood where they lived.  \nLou played throughout high school and college and managed to keep hishead above water only because the other players were so appallingly bad.But it wasn't until his first visit to Las Vegas that he took poker seriously,buying into a low-limit Seven Card Stud game where he managed—with agood deal of luck—to break even.  \n“While playing stud,\"he recalls,\"I noticed another game that looked evenmore interesting.It was Texas Hold'em.  \n\"I watched the Hold'em game for about 30 minutes,and sat down to play.Onehour and $100 later,I was hooked.I didn't mind losing.It was the first time Iplayed,and I expected to lose.But I didn't like feeling like a dummy soIbought and studied every poker book I could find.\"  \n\"I studied;I played.I studied and played more.Before long I was winning reg-ularly,and I haven't had a losing year sincel began keeping records.”  \nIn the early 1990s Lou Krieger began writing a column called“On Strategy”for Card Player Magazine.He has also written two books about poker,Holdem Excellence:From Beginner to Winner and MORE Hold'em Excellence:A Winner For Life.  \nWhen not writing about poker,Lou(who lives in Long Beach,California)canbe found playing poker in the card casinos of Southern California.  \nRichard Harroch is an attorney with over 20 years of experience in repre-senting start-up and emerging companies,entrepreneurs,and venturecapitalists.He is listed in “Who's Who in American Law”and is a corporatepartner in a major law firm in San Francisco,Orrick,Herrington&SutcliffeLLP.He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.C.Berkeley and graduated fromUCLA Law School,where he was managing editor of the Law Review.He haswritten a number of legal/business books,including The Small Business KitFor Dummies;Start-Up and Emerging Companies:Planning,Financing andOperating the Successful Business;and Partnership and Joint Venture  \nAgreements.He also spearheaded the development of a premier legal-agree-ments Web site on the Internet.  \nHe has lectured extensively before various legal and business organizations,including the American Electronics Association,the Venture Capital Institute,the California Continuing Education of the Bar,the Corporate CounselInstitute,the San Francisco Bar,and the Practicing Law Institute(PLID).  \nRichard has served as the Chairman of the California State Bar Committee onPartnerships,the Co-Chairman of the Corporations Committee of the SanFrancisco Bar(Barristers),a member of the Executive Committee of theBusiness Law Section of the California State Bar,and Co-Chair of the LawJournal annual seminar in New York on“Joint Ventures and StrategicAlliances.\"  \nRichard 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