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lol

Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 Professional Internet Live

Poker: yeah that didnt go at all as planned. Basically after I downswung thursday night, I made it all back/friday saturday and then some, only to go -2450 yesterday. Sick career single day loser. Just multiply thursdays blog post by a factor of 5 and you'll get the idea. Truly amazing, here are just 3 representations of how it went:

The quality of play: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1614291
A typical early game beat: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1614035
When I finally went deep, it went like this: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1613726


So yeah I wont post them all, that would take a while, but it was less than desireable. I'm looking to pick it back up this evening and hope I don't have to take a break.


School/life: My brother and a couple friends were in town for the homecoming football game (UMD v. Virginia). We went tailgating for a few hours but I didn't stay for too much of the game as it was just ridiculously crowded and I was better served going to find a tv to watch with people.

I've been fighting back pains since last semester (pre-summer) and they've been acting up, so I've tried to stay loose stretching and heating and carefully avoiding class :) Well, not really, but I skipped my first this morning that I have in a while, just to relax and kind of recover between back and poker and spiting school for making me miss homecoming.

Other than another two english assignments, the week looks relatively light so I'm gonna try to get out some and just make this a relax-week. Gym? Maybe...maybe...
Thanks for reading.


-Alex

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gahhh

Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 Professional Internet Live

not a great end to the week.

stuff: school kinda blew this week. Got a bunch of mediocre grades back...not a huge deal but just not what I'd like to end the week with. What sucked the most was that I basically had to sit out of homecoming altogether. I had midterms through tuesday and was looking forward to our famous hayride event thursday but, realizing that I had a lab when everyone was leaving, the entire week essentially went down the tubes. Oh well, I've been to every other homecoming/greek week and its been fun, and I should get a couple of more out of my time here. Hopefully my schedule will be easier to combine fraternity stuff with in the coming weeks, I was hoping I wouldn't have to miss weeks at a time.

I guess the good news is that the homecoming football game vs Virginia is tomorrow and my brother and some friends will be in town for it, so that should be fun.


Poker: blah. last night I played and got dominated both in cash games and tournaments for my worst losing night online at approximately -1600. It wasn't too fun, but I guess it does happen. It was just so unreal how all the beats can flood at you at once, when you're never less than a 3:1 favorite to win a hand and you just can't seem to win. Well, as any experienced player knows the only way to battle it out is put the time in so thats what I plan on doing. I sat down again tonight for a session and it went similarly poorly, but I did end up a couple hundred which was certainly preferably to another disaster night. Still hurting from the loss but I was winning consistently and big prior to last night so I have a feeling I'll be able to recover nicely from this. I plan on playing some tommorow during the day and making sunday a poker day as well...this is going to be the first week in several that I am likely going to play the sunday major tournaments on full tilt and pokerstars (the million grtd, 750k grtd and second chance tournaments). Beyond squeezing homework in around the football game/saturday happenings and poker, thats the gist of the weekends plans. I hope I have good news by the end! Thanks for reading.


-Alex

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bread winning and spending

Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 Professional Internet Live

i think ill go back to dividing the blog into poker and life, i think some people are more interested in one vs the other, and this way I can go into a bit more detail when I want to talk about hands or more about something else etc... anyways

poker: played last night for a few hours, got in 30 tournaments. Not a huge amount but during the week any 30 game day is a good one. Fortunately, I hit for 2k and had my 2nd greater-than-1.5k day in about a week, needless to say I'm on pace to tear it up this month with any more volume and any more running decently well. Hopefully I can keep it up, its nice to be shipping it more consistently.

In other news, my 2nd video for donkit/sharkscope should be posted in the coming week when they figure some stuff out, so be on the lookout for that. If anyone has any feedback for me on the 1st video, please feel free to post it here, PM me on the forums, or email me (Alex.triner@gmail.com)...I'm always looking for ways to improve my n00bness at video making and instruction.

Life: I finished most of the bout of my midterms and what not which is nice, but I have constant english projects which have been keeping me annoyingly busy.
Also, I'm still going through some back issues stemming from the end of last semester, so I'm also really hoping to get back into the gym on a semi consistent basis. Both of these tasks should stay consistent through the semester, so I'm hoping things like my poker schedule, sleep schedule and partying/people schedules will also somehow sync.

The biggest highlight right now is probably the booking of a trip to amsterdam for myself and my brother, as well as any friends who want to join. We are close to confirming details on the trip, and I'm really very excited to head there for the first time. He's been there a few times (and talks about wanting to move there after every return), so I know it'll be a great experience. If any friends want to join, shoot me an IM, its looking like December 26-31st time frame is when cheap airfare is available. As most people know, I love to travel, so going anywhere for the first time is exciting for me, and I've especially wanted to visit Amsterdam for quite some time. I have to say, things look good overall, hopefully I can stay afloat with the english work. Thanks for reading.


-Alex

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long, long week

Date: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 Professional Internet Live

I can't express enough how glad I am that this week is over. Honestly, it was just one thing after another. Teachers unhappy that I have a difficult course schedule to accomodate, midterms, people annoying me about stupid things, people owing money, general inconsiderate environments and stressful workloads, I'm just so glad the weekend has arrived. I got to play a small session tonight where MTTs were severely rigged but the 45 man sngs went well and i still turned a few hundred in profit despite a rough go at the big multis that i was playing. it seemed that flips were 80/20s tonight and whenever someone was supposed to be making a move they had a monster....just the way some nights go I guess, can't complain too much since I did come away with profit.

I've spent a good deal of the afternoon also trying to relax a bit and organize and line up more videos for donkit.com/sharkscope as well as work with some students on logistics for the upcoming weeks. Schedules are slowly coming into place. Next week shouldn't be too much easier for me due to another midterm and homecoming, along with trying to keep up steady poker work to keep up a very promising trend thus far. Anyways, looking forward to the weekend hiatus, sucking it up through the week then hopefully having some down time for online stuff/personal stuff/non school stuff.

I highly encourage those SNG and cash grinders that find video instruction useful to buy the videos at www.donkit.com and www.sharkscope.com (poker videos link), I've heard nothing but good things about both sites and the video authors and quality, and I think I'm going to be a strong addition to the selection with my first video being in full swing for sales on both sites finally!

Finally, last night after the bulk of the week was done I got to participate in some fraternity happenings finally and really got to connect with a lot of the members of the pledge class. These kids are really great kids and look promising for the chapter and our future strength, I'm excited to have them ready to go and come aboard, but I do have to say some stern talking-to's never did hurt any of them. They're close and should make us proud. I really am going to make my best effort to see to the end of the pledging process consistently and strongly as I feel this has been some of the best interactions I've had with guys that I'll be able to call brothers soon. I think thats about it in my life for now without any boring detail, thanks for reading.


-Alex

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Schoolaments

Date: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 Professional Internet Live

Yeah, school work is in full swing now. With a 30-40 page paper and exams coming up, I'll definitely have my share of work to do, but I intend on still getting to extra curricular stuff as well as try to get my time in at the tables. I did have the chance to get in about 50 games yesterday, starting out rough but finishing up strong. Two saturday sessions, a poker video, an hour of coaching and a seat to the sunday million later, i was +1800. Not a bad weekend.

The weekend was relatively uneventful, I was lazy thursday and friday, people always come in and out of the apartment to say hey but I didn't have the energy to go out and certainly didn't feel like drinking, so it wasnt until Saturday that I decided to finally go out on a weekend night in CP for the first time in quite a while. I went with one of my roommates and a few other friends to a party close by that was fun but somewhat uneventful. After, couple of us went back to a friends place to relax, listen to music and smoke a bit, and thats basically how I rounded out my night. I came back, hung out and passed out to planet earth, a fantastic nature show on the discovery channel? Im not sure, I download them because they're so awesome. I highly recommend late night discovery watching.

This week I have a good amount of studying to look forward to, hopefully with some fraternity happenings mixed in, as well as a couple of hours for for video-making and some coaching scheduled. I think my sister might be visiting at the end of the week for a night, so I have that to look forward to also. Thanks for reading.


-Alex

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The venture continues

Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 Professional Internet Live

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

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post holiday update

Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 Professional Internet Live

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

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holidays

Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 Professional Internet Live

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

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exhausted

Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 Professional Internet Live

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

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back in town

Date: Sun, Sep 2, 2007 Professional Internet Live

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

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running late!

Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 Professional Internet Live

I'm literally running out the door right now to get home before we head to the airport. My trip to europe begins today. I wont be blogging for a couple of weeks, so around the 27th is when ill be back. Hope you all end your summers well, I know I will....stay tuned for summer reports and such when I return! Thanks for reading.


-Alex

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