I'll be representing Ari's Training Center, one of four teams, this weekend in the Dream Team Poker Tournament. It will be interesting to have tweleve of my top players here in Vegas all at the same time. I originally contacted Daniel Negreanu with the intent of putting a PokerVT team together, but unfortunately he has other engagements. All of that said, I'll be more than comfortable playing alongside a promising and marketable student, locoenlacabeza and one of my original mentors thelandlord1. The tournament comes with an opening day cocktail party and should be an absolute shmooze-fest, which I'm looking forward to...
I spent much of the week recording content and working on my online training site. The site should be up and running in the next six months...should be state-of-the-art and a high quality product. Monday night, we're scheduled to have a camera crew in the training center and I hope to have the video up on my website currently under construction. I'm in the initial planning stages of doing a speaking tour at colleges up the west coast. Myself and my team are considering renting an RV and traveling around college to college spreading the gospel of poker.
Also, I did my first podcast with pocketfives.com today and really look forward to downloading and listening to it when it comes out...
This is the last week of the Bluff Magazine Lock Poker challenge and it's trying times trying to beat SNO0OWMAN. I had the pleasure to hang out and watch Brian "SNOOOO0OOOOWMAN" Hawkins play while traveling/training with Ari in Florida. Brian was seven tabling $1500 HU SNG's at the time on a laptop on one of the beds of our hotel room. Being so young and absolutely proficient at poker; I'll have to admit I was very impressed. It's kind of funny because Ari and I sat down and specifically talked about how tough he would be in this competition once the list of competitors was announced. I have the highest amount of respect for Brian as a person and as a player...it won't be a surprise to me when he signs a major sponsorship deal with one of the sites. He's a performer and a producer and this is just the beginning of a world-class career.
I'll try and keep you updated in the very near future with the latest that's going on in my neck of the woods.