Puggy Pearson: Deal Me In Deal Me In   It was the highest game in the room… No Limit Texas Hold’em. The stakes were really very high and when a dealer took a deck a man with a pug nose came into a poker room and said: “Deal me in”. He even didn’t know how to play, but he chose the highest game: “All or none”. You know this guy. It’s Puggy Pearson or Walter Clyde Pearson.   A poor boy from Tennessee became a poker legend. When I say “poor” I really mean it. It’s not that his big family couldn’t buy a car, they couldn’t buy shoes for their son: “I didn’t know what shoes were until I left home”   He was educated by life, not by professors. And this makes him better than many people with former education. Though there was no former education for his profession – poker. He became a pro all by himself. His gambling talent was revealed when he joined the Navy. He was only 16 years old.   Now you can recognize Puggy not only by his nose but by his bus “Rovin’ Gambler”. If you look at one of the sides of this bus you’ll see the following: Ill play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count. And though he likes money, he is the first to help when someone needs it.   The other thing you supposedly don’t know about Puggy Pearson is that it was he who suggested a freezeout tournament. So, call him “father”… “father of poker tournaments”. This father won at the WSOP in 1973 and 14 years later he became a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. Puggys Tips   Puggy hadn written a book on poker... but he is known for his poker phrases: 1. About the three things you need to know as a gambler: “Knowin’ the 60-40 end of a proposition, money management, and knowin’ yourself. Any donkey knows that.” 2. About logics in poker: “I believe in logics. Cut and dried. Two and two ain’t nothing in this world but four. But them suckers always think it’s somethin’ different. I play percentages in everything.” 3. About the knowing yourself skill: The first thing a gambler has to do is make friends with himself. A lot of people go through the world thinking they’re somebody else.” 4. The words that you should put on your desktop if you e a poker player and to read them any time you e getting angry because of the downs: A gambler’s ace is his ability to think clearly under stress. That’s very important, because, you see, fear is the basis of all mankind . . . .That’s life. Everything’s mental in life