Thanksgiving break was great. Spent a few days down south at my grandparents and got some much needed family time in. It's always nice to see my grandparents, aunt and uncle and family friends, as I probably get down there two or three times a year, tops nowadays. The actual thanksgiving feast was amazing, by far the best meal of the year, and lived up to every ounce of expectation that I had for my grandmother and aunt's excellent cooking.
I came back friday night and got to spend saturday with some close friends from home. I went to lunch near home with a few of them, and later that night my closer friends came to my apartment at school for football, beers, and relaxing. It was definitely a great time. I don't think I'd seen one of my closest friends from home in 6 or so months, and most of them are not around in general so thanksgiving still remains a closely tied holiday.
School has been quiet since friends left and classes started up for the week. Luckily, I have a couple of days off from heavy course work until final exams start up again soon. The bright side is a likely great winter break is on the horizon.
I haven't played much poker...and by not much, I mean I think I've played 2 sessions this month. Pretty pathetic, but I'm going to charge ahead to sneak in platinum for the month regardless and turn up the heat. Then, when break starts, I can continue. Hopefully that plan works, I am certainly capable of disappointing myself. We'll start with 300 games in the next couple days, and go from there. Thanks for reading.
Alex
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
hrmph
The week was tough, as expected. I got lucky midway through the week and found out that my 30 page final english paper was due monday (tommorow) and not friday. I have gotten to play no poker, and spent about 20-25 hours outside of class doing school related work. Unfortunately, my exams did not go as well as I'd hoped despite starting preparation earlier than I normally do, but hopefully I can stop the bleeding and finish the semester reasonably. There isn't much more that I can think to do beyond what I am already doing, so I'm just going to stick it out.
The plus side to finishing the week was a very very fun weekend. Friday night we had a party in the apartment and had a nice showing, and an overall good time (highlights: my roommate running around in a poncho and an off-duty stripper showing up). Last night, my friend Leah had a "WTF" theme party, where the idea was to dress in something that would elicit a "WTF?!?!" response when walking down the street. With no time to gather an outfit, I went in a nice array of sweat pants with baseball spandex on top, brown dress shoes, gloves, and the very same poncho from the previous night. I must say, I think I may have been the best dressed. My roommate Tim ended up showing up with a few friends and shared enjoyment, with lots of beer and some really good 7 layer been dip. Tim couldn't resist topping off the party with karaoke, and I must say I've never seen anyone get quite so into it before. Another good, fun night.
This week brings gathering the loose ends of my english paper together, go over some coaching stuff, and getting to the last couple days of classes before thanksgiving break. I am very much looking forward to a couple of days off before the last leg of the semester (including birthday!) I don't know that heavy poker volume will continue until after final exams, we'll see how it goes. Thanks for reading.
Alex
The plus side to finishing the week was a very very fun weekend. Friday night we had a party in the apartment and had a nice showing, and an overall good time (highlights: my roommate running around in a poncho and an off-duty stripper showing up). Last night, my friend Leah had a "WTF" theme party, where the idea was to dress in something that would elicit a "WTF?!?!" response when walking down the street. With no time to gather an outfit, I went in a nice array of sweat pants with baseball spandex on top, brown dress shoes, gloves, and the very same poncho from the previous night. I must say, I think I may have been the best dressed. My roommate Tim ended up showing up with a few friends and shared enjoyment, with lots of beer and some really good 7 layer been dip. Tim couldn't resist topping off the party with karaoke, and I must say I've never seen anyone get quite so into it before. Another good, fun night.
This week brings gathering the loose ends of my english paper together, go over some coaching stuff, and getting to the last couple days of classes before thanksgiving break. I am very much looking forward to a couple of days off before the last leg of the semester (including birthday!) I don't know that heavy poker volume will continue until after final exams, we'll see how it goes. Thanks for reading.
Alex
Friday, November 9, 2007
The weekend before death
If death came in school form, it would be next week with a 30 page paper and two exams. This won't leave time to do much else, so any desire to go out would have to happen this weekend. I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Thanksgiving break will still be amidst work, so most other things will be waning in the final month+ of the semester.
All that said, I'll either go out and do something tonight or stay in and grind, as I just won't put in much other time this month. I'll still be allowing plenty of time for coaching and videos but won't be getting too indulged until winter break arrives. FTOPS (Full Tilt's big tournament series) recently began so I may be jumping into a few events this weekend, perhaps starting with tonight's 200 buy in pot limit hold em event. We'll see what happens.
After all that is over with I'm really going to have to take proactive steps toward finding a house for next year, as we do not really want to stay in campus apartments anymore and having a house allows for much more freedom and entertainment. Also, since I'll likely only be here for half the year next year, I'd need a place to go in the spring and a house would solve that issue. Moving back home is not something I can ever really foresee, but I do love the area I'm from so I'm not opposed to staying locally for now. TBA, a year off abroad is also in the cards. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
All that said, I'll either go out and do something tonight or stay in and grind, as I just won't put in much other time this month. I'll still be allowing plenty of time for coaching and videos but won't be getting too indulged until winter break arrives. FTOPS (Full Tilt's big tournament series) recently began so I may be jumping into a few events this weekend, perhaps starting with tonight's 200 buy in pot limit hold em event. We'll see what happens.
After all that is over with I'm really going to have to take proactive steps toward finding a house for next year, as we do not really want to stay in campus apartments anymore and having a house allows for much more freedom and entertainment. Also, since I'll likely only be here for half the year next year, I'd need a place to go in the spring and a house would solve that issue. Moving back home is not something I can ever really foresee, but I do love the area I'm from so I'm not opposed to staying locally for now. TBA, a year off abroad is also in the cards. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Monday, November 5, 2007
A slow start to November
Well, with all of the BS ive had to deal with in school and what not, I really haven't had time to sit down and start grinding for the month. My main focus is going to have to be getting through school work, so I expect volume to wane for the next several weeks. Coaching/posting/videos will have to make up for lack of table time.
There really hasn't been too much going on thats note-worthy, I'm still trying to qualify for WPT (world poker tour) bahamas so I can spend winter break at a couple of WPT events, as our apartment has already planned to get up to Atlantic city for the world poker open at Borgata in January. I'm extremely excited for this as it will be my first live tournament series as 21+...at long last, in about 5 weeks it'll be time.
Also, my fraternity's semi-formal/dated party is on wednesday in D.C and im planning on going to that, which should be the highlight of the week. Hopefully more exciting updates to come. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
There really hasn't been too much going on thats note-worthy, I'm still trying to qualify for WPT (world poker tour) bahamas so I can spend winter break at a couple of WPT events, as our apartment has already planned to get up to Atlantic city for the world poker open at Borgata in January. I'm extremely excited for this as it will be my first live tournament series as 21+...at long last, in about 5 weeks it'll be time.
Also, my fraternity's semi-formal/dated party is on wednesday in D.C and im planning on going to that, which should be the highlight of the week. Hopefully more exciting updates to come. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
October
meh at October. A lot has happened this month that signifies so many transitions, both psychological and material...hard to explain, but its been a weird and somewhat depressing month. I'm not at all unhappy that its over. Recently things have been relatively quiet, and honestly that is really ok with me, I haven't been going out much and have been trying to maintain a good balance of playing time and do-nothing-relax time in order to enjoy the balance to which I've grown accustomed.
Poker went pretty well this month. I only got in about 500 tournaments, mostly mtts, and a few hours of coaching/video making for a total of about +5k. Not bad considering I worked about 60 hours in total for the month, but I can't help but think if I got in more volume like I told myself I would that I'd be closer to the 10k mark than the 5k mark. Oh well, hopefully soon. I finally regained platinum star VIP status on pokerstars also which hasnt happened in months due to not being here in the summer to play enough and just not putting in the time at the stakes I should be playing to maintain high VIP status. Its probably too late this year, but next year I will for sure become a supernova VIP...i look forward to that. Thats about all for now, I look forward to November, and much moreso, December. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Poker went pretty well this month. I only got in about 500 tournaments, mostly mtts, and a few hours of coaching/video making for a total of about +5k. Not bad considering I worked about 60 hours in total for the month, but I can't help but think if I got in more volume like I told myself I would that I'd be closer to the 10k mark than the 5k mark. Oh well, hopefully soon. I finally regained platinum star VIP status on pokerstars also which hasnt happened in months due to not being here in the summer to play enough and just not putting in the time at the stakes I should be playing to maintain high VIP status. Its probably too late this year, but next year I will for sure become a supernova VIP...i look forward to that. Thats about all for now, I look forward to November, and much moreso, December. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Monday, October 29, 2007
sick
I hate being sick. I woke up yesterday with a sore throat and general feeling of the common colds deathness (yes, I made up that word), so I basically did nothing all day. I sat in the dark either in my circular "chill" chair or in bed watching Arrested Development DVDs and trying to stay hydrated/medicated/rested. I'm feeling slightly better today, hopefully tommorow I'll be good to go. I decided to get to all of my classes despite the sickness, so I went from wakeup at 1030 to around 4pm without food and with very little water (Stops at fountains), and being sick and tired that just isnt much fun when you're going at a pretty fast pace during the day. Generally I don't have a problem getting through my schedule but on days like today it proved more difficult.
I came back and relaxed some before fraternity meeting, which I went to before coming back to make my 3rd video for donkit/sharkscope. I am 4 tabling 27 turbos in this video, so look for that on the site(s) if youre interested, and please, feedback always welcome via 2+2 messages, comments here, aim/email. I think it turned out well and I got into some good spots to discuss, including an early game situation that rarely comes up in sngs that was good to talk through for the audience. I'll announce when that is posted. Otherwise, there isn't too much else going on. Ideally I'd like to get in one more session tomorrow before the end of the month, we'll see if I can come through and not continue to be sick/too tired to want to put in a serious session. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
I came back and relaxed some before fraternity meeting, which I went to before coming back to make my 3rd video for donkit/sharkscope. I am 4 tabling 27 turbos in this video, so look for that on the site(s) if youre interested, and please, feedback always welcome via 2+2 messages, comments here, aim/email. I think it turned out well and I got into some good spots to discuss, including an early game situation that rarely comes up in sngs that was good to talk through for the audience. I'll announce when that is posted. Otherwise, there isn't too much else going on. Ideally I'd like to get in one more session tomorrow before the end of the month, we'll see if I can come through and not continue to be sick/too tired to want to put in a serious session. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Rainy Day...but not a bad one
Cruddy weather out, but I've never minded the rain so much so it didn't go too poorly. lets see:
school: I had to present a lesson in English today so I had to get dressed up for that...not ideal with the water coming down on you, but it went fine I think. I skipped Badminton after that because frankly I didn't want to run 10 minutes away from my apartment, mess up my nice clothes even more and just go through the wednesday process, so I got lazy and called it quits after english. Kind of a dull rainy day I guess.
Poker: I got home and hung out with a friend upstairs, and after a couple hour, much needed nap, I sat down for a session, starting with the 55 buy in 50k grtd on stars. I added some mtts in and I was playing my usual regiment though not as intensely, I don't think I ever had more than 12 games going. Anyways, got in 35 tournaments and made 1k, which helps me crawl out of losing weekend. We'll see what happens next, I hope I can get time in to grind in the next week with the end of the month coming, I should have platinum star (VIP Status on pokerstars) and hopefully about 1k tournies for the month. We'll see about profits.
Also, my second Donkit video will be up within the next few days, so look for that on www.donkit.com or www.sharkscope.com if you want to check it out, Its another two tabling video. I'll be making my third video for the site soon and am open to suggestions of what I should play. If you have anything you'd like to suggest, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me (alex.triner@gmail.com) or to PM me on the forum. Thanks for reading, hope everyone is doing well.
-Alex
school: I had to present a lesson in English today so I had to get dressed up for that...not ideal with the water coming down on you, but it went fine I think. I skipped Badminton after that because frankly I didn't want to run 10 minutes away from my apartment, mess up my nice clothes even more and just go through the wednesday process, so I got lazy and called it quits after english. Kind of a dull rainy day I guess.
Poker: I got home and hung out with a friend upstairs, and after a couple hour, much needed nap, I sat down for a session, starting with the 55 buy in 50k grtd on stars. I added some mtts in and I was playing my usual regiment though not as intensely, I don't think I ever had more than 12 games going. Anyways, got in 35 tournaments and made 1k, which helps me crawl out of losing weekend. We'll see what happens next, I hope I can get time in to grind in the next week with the end of the month coming, I should have platinum star (VIP Status on pokerstars) and hopefully about 1k tournies for the month. We'll see about profits.
Also, my second Donkit video will be up within the next few days, so look for that on www.donkit.com or www.sharkscope.com if you want to check it out, Its another two tabling video. I'll be making my third video for the site soon and am open to suggestions of what I should play. If you have anything you'd like to suggest, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me (alex.triner@gmail.com) or to PM me on the forum. Thanks for reading, hope everyone is doing well.
-Alex
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