The venture continues

With school work on the rise and general laziness I haven't yet gotten a "good" act together for my online playing regiment recently, but as I stated in my last entry coaching had started nicely enough to keep me involved. Yesterday, it went a bit further when I got an offer to join www.donkit.com to become a video author for their site. The pay is great and the work will help expand coaching and my analytical approach to play overall. This is very exciting as I've often looked forward to the prospect of working with a site for something like this. I highly recommend the videos on there for both SNGers and cash game players, videos from the likes of curtain, newt_buggs and cero_z are all well worth it. Look for my first videos to be up in the coming weeks/months hopefully.

I have a relaxing weekend more or less, as I plan to record my first video for the site , perhaps get some work done, hopefully play some, and just hang out. Hopefully all remains smooth, this has definitely been a boost to the week. I also look forward to trying to get to some more fraternity events with the new pledge class, the kids are looking good. Can't think of too much else new going on, hope everyone is doing well, and thanks for reading. Look forward to updating soon.



-Alex

post holiday update

honestly, i dont even know what to post in here usually which is why i havent posted much lately. basically, school is in full swing and the holidays have kind of hit their semi hiatus, at least the the two big ones are done with. I enjoy spending time with the family but commuting to my parents' house is a big pain. Great food definitely made it worth it, however.

my sng coaching venture has somewhat taken off as well. I have 4 consistent students now through the 40 and 50 buy in levels and so far so good. Not a ton of hours put in yet but im excited to keep going and see what im capable of in this venture; I really think it will help to focus my game, and there has already been evidence of this.

I've also just been informed of another trip to Greece and Israel in the spring time, and there is potential talks of bahamas and amsterdam in the mix at other times in upcoming months. I'm very excited, hopefully I survive the semester to get there! I'm finally thinking about looking into buying a camera, might be worth it to motivate myself to make trip reports after worthy trips.

Anyways, thanks for reading, an update should come along at some point.


-Alex


-Alex

holidays

well, that pretty much sums it up. i have basically nothing going on this week due to the jewish holidays/laziness so ill be doing a lot of the home-for-meals thing. Other than that, i have played basically no poker and done basically nothing with my frat so im trying to turn both of those things around currently, in addition to keeping up with school, which is so far so good. With rush come and gone I look forward to spending a good amount of time with our pledges. Last pledge class I regret not being there for as a brother and I think it hurt my relationship with some of them. I'd like to go out on a strong note in that sense. We'll see if I can be active long enough to keep that up.

I also officially started coaching this week, having my first couple of coaching sessions with some 16s and 27s STTers. Both went reasonably well for my first formal sessions for levels that ive beaten.

On a related note, I've decided to keep sit and gos in my poker regiment for now, mainly at the 60 dollar level while i continue my cash game quest through nl100, 200 and eventually to 400. This will allow me to make sure I'm not rusting up on my sng game while im still taking on students to coach at the lower buy ins. It'll also give me a shot to test my resolve at the 60s, as I have a very small sample at the level in recent memory. Ill also continue mtts and live cash games up through nl500.

All of this aside, however, its WCOOP time! Pokerstars big online tourney series starts tommorow and goes for weeks and in addition to satelliting in, I'm looking to sell some of my action (contact me if interested). we'll see what comes next, for now its holiday time. Thanks for reading, Happy new year (Shana Tovah)!!



-Alex

exhausted

wow i never thought the transition back to school could be so taxing, I seriously have had a tough time running around campus like I used to, but classes seem manageable this semester so ill deal. Recently really havent been too productive, dealing with an expensive parking permit fiasco, schooling and trying to make fraternity stuff happen. I need to get back into a poker routine, i havent played in weeks and im not too happy about that. I have, on the other hand, signed on a couple of new SNG students so thats positive for my coaching career which I will continue with on the side of my cash games and limited STT volume nowadays. Hope something good comes up soon, as soon as I can find pictures from my family I would like to post a europe trip report. Thanks for reading.


-Alex

back in town

sorry for the lack of update, just returned from Greece Monday night, and my body has been unusually out of whack. I've been sleeping a ton and havent had the energy to do much else (haven't even played poker since I came home). I'm feeling a bit better today even though my sleeping is still messed up so I may try to put in a session later after seeing friends and running errands. I will try to get a Europe trip report out but for now I can preface it by saying it was quite awesome, and I had an unforgettable summer overall. It was just what I needed to try and get my head on straight for the fall with everything going on. Hope all is well with everyone, I guess you can expect some report soon. Thanks for reading, wish me well in recovery.


-Alex