Couldn’t Sleep so you guys get a blog…
***sorry ahead of time for typos… I don’t feel like proofreading this monster***
Its 4am, I just finished watching 3 episodes of South Park, a Daily Show and a Colbert. I also just read the entire Muk well on 2p2. I think its a safe bet, I’m not as tired as I wanna be. This blog might actually be one of those epic ones that is completely TL;DR. I’m on my laptop in bed, so sadly I don’t have fun graphs or any fun pictures.
First things first, one of the players I personally have grown to respect the most and personally think is an awesome guy, GoMukYaself is doing a well on 2p2. Its a phenomenal read so far, and I’ve never partaken in a well before but i’m gonna change that with him. For those that don’t know, a “well” as its called is a poker player starting a thread saying essentially “ask any question and I will answer”. I’d always personally had it on my to-do list if I ever became big time enough for people to care about my answers. However, after reading some of the questions people ask you on these things, I’m not sure. The one that stands out is being asked by another man how often you do your own deed. I mean if that’s not the most awkward question to ask another male over the internet, I dunno what is. Here’s the link to his “well” for those intersted or too internet stupid to get their on their own… http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/117/medium-high-stakes-full-ring/well-gomukyaself-693792/
Another ridiculous thread that I think is now finally over was the Jason Ho coaching scam. I personally don’t know the guy or any of his students but the entire situation is a complete shit show. If you wanna read about that whole ordeal, here’s the link: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/101/coaching-advice/where-did-jason-ho-thread-get-moved-695466/ Its a really long thread but the basic jest of it is the following: a coach allegedly lied or coerced students into giving him money, he’s allegedly a bankrupt deadbeat and he makes some pretty incriminating posts in the thread in my eyes.
Being very active in the coaching world myself, I see on basically a daily basis how much your students trust you as a teacher. They hire you and for the most part give you the reigns to their bankroll. I did always think that coaching could be a very dangerous thing in the control of a bad person. I’m not calling Jason Ho a bad person at all because like I said, I don’t know a thing about the dude other than what is alleged. I am just saying its a situation where if I weren’t honest or wanted to rip someone off, I could easily do it and get away with it. Luckily, I respect my reputation as well as my conscious. I find it ridiculously interesting however to see just how far it really was possible to take advantage or people. I guess that’s really all I have to say about that. I’ll end this segment by saying, never trust anyone on the web with a transfer or your passwords. I know its common sense but sometimes you get messages from “pros” and feel obligated. I know I have. Just keep the dick attitude and tell other “random” players “absolutely not” unless you are 100% comfortable.
Let me segue that talk about coaching scandal into a paragraph about my own coaching. I personally have the highest volume of students I’ve ever had at the moment. I currently have 8 students with another in the wings and have been contacted on a nearly daily basis by interested parties. I always love having a number of students. It might sound ridiculous but its always a learning experience for me taking on a new student. Every student I’ve ever had has brought something new to the table and at the very least reminded me of something simple I had forgotten and at the most actually made me better. I am still taking students so please don’t take this as me saying I have too many students. I am never going to be a guy who steamlines his coaching and cookiecuts his students. That said perhaps I need to up the price as everyone seems to think they are getting a bargain 
. Sorry that paragraph kinda rambled. Cliffnotes: I have gotten alot of interest in my coaching recently, I love coaching, and I am not overloaded.
So I was talking to my parents today, they just got back from a 3 week trip to New Zealand and Austrailia. I was giving them the update on my life and I came to realize I’ve basically accomplished accidentally everything I wanted to do awhile back. I just booked a trip to Europe for Oktoberfest (travel abroad). I am starting volunteering for the American Cancer Society on wednesday (volunteer). I have a ton of coaching opportunties (focus more on incorporating myself). I am on the p90x workout plan and loving every second of it (get fit and stop being a lazy dick). My days now have some congruency to them. I coach in the afternoons, workout in the evening, coach a little more, play poker (work) from 11pm til around 3am. Sleep and do it again. Its definitely no 9 to 5 but I feel better about myself and have more human interaction than I did basically all of last year. Pretty cool that I did all that stuff without even trying… it just sorta happened.
As far as the poker goes… rigged January is over, and it was another down month and it will mark the first time in my pro career i’ve had back-to-back losing months. I have moved back to 200nl for the time being. Especially with tax season coming up, I want to make sure I don’t overextend myself as I really don’t want to drop my online roll below a comfortable shottaking level and I don’t want to pull money out of stocks or savings. I hope I don’t run badly through April as that would be incredibly disheartening. I am focusing alot on my non-sd winnings for the time being and trying really hard not to give money away post-flop and focus on spots to win pots that I would usually squander. I think that’s my personal biggest leak. I fire bets and just give up on them. I know its my biggest leak, but for some reaosn I’ve just never made a conscious effort to eliminate it. I will be focusing on that for february and try to have a break even red line for once. Did i just admit that my red line isn’t positive? Imagine that. Won’t hear a winning mid/low stakes reg admit that very often.
As you can tell by this blog post, I’m pretty happy with my life at the moment. I have surrounded myself with people that make me happy and its doing wonders for me. I would usually be at stressed factor 5 having 2 losing months in a row, but I’ve set myself up financially at this point for it really not to be a big deal. I will win again, and this will seem like a hilarious period where I overadjusted my game to try and get levels above. My support group is perfect at the moment. I owe that alot to such good friends and in part to a good girlfriend. I look forward to 2010 being more profitable than 2009, but if it isn’t I suppose I’ll survive.
oh and here’s a picture that made me laugh out loud at my desk…
