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Last night I received my first coaching session ever from DeathDonkey.  It was incredibly intense in a way that I had not expected.  We ended up doing a live sweat on 27TD and what ended up happening by the middle of the video was I found myself questioning even my predraw ranges.  I tend to play a very tight predraw game and tends to lend itself towards making big hands and getting in a lot of vbets.  DD pointed out numerous situations where I should be opening or defending or bluffing that are marginally +EV, but still +EV.  Between trying to record a video (oh right, we made a video, it will be out whenever), playing two tables, and trying to absorb all this information being thrown at me, I found myself overwhelmed by the end of the recording.  It was a pretty cool feeling, and something that hasn't happened to me for a while in poker.  As someone who has never gotten coaching before, I was pleasantly surprised at how much can be accomplished within an hour.  Even after working with numerous students myself, it is sometimes difficult to determine how much they really gained from the experience.  

Speaking of that, I am going to be running a rather large discount on my 1on1 coaching.  Start Friday the 17th through the 27th or so, I am going to be charging $50/hr for coaching specifically scheduled during those two weeks.  Call it a holiday blowout sale.  The gist of it is that I am going to be visiting my parents house in that time and will be unable to adequately set up a grind station.  Given that my time is therefore far less valuable, I figure I might as well open up and maybe give some chance for new people to experience my coaching.  Furthermore I am happy to do sessions for groups of 2 for the same rate.  So if any PLO5/10/25 guys want to get together with a friend and pony up, I think this should be completely affordable.  I'll probably have more details about that as the event approaches and will make a less covert announcement (because who reads my blog anyway).  

Finally, I did post a member video of me playing some .5/1 8 game.  As I mention in the video, I had been running pretty badly and opted to just make a quick recording.  My play in the 27TD rounds was pretty bad even by my normal standards, but I'm sure I'd look at it now and think it is laughably bad.  Everything else I played fairly solidly (I think), and I discuss some general strategy in there.  Hope everyone is running well.

-DxB