HU Info and bio

For all those that have PM'ed me, I stated that I will be writing a heads-up NL coaching curriculum and will be coaching in a similar manner to which academics teach their classes. Obviously, something of this magnitude which from my knowledge has not been done formally before is very ambitious, especially for someone with little to none coaching experience. For the time being I plan on coaching a select few individuals as a trial at limits no higher than 1/2 NL to see where I stand as a coach.

For the next week I am looking for 2-3 individuals who want to participate in a trial coaching run. Specifically, the coaching will include a 2 hour screen capture recording of HU NL sessions with at most 2 tables running at once. From here I will hand write up my thoughts on each individual hand and return my formal report to you via email. After this is exchanged we can go over the report together and discuss any questions that come up. I hope anyone who participates this week will not be afraid to be critical and challenge my report. This game is far from being optimally solved and almost all view points need to be considered. After the discussion I would like to set up another hour session that I will watch and comment while directly interacting with the student in real time. This will take anywhere from 6-8 hours of my time.

I will be offering this for only $150 quite a bit less than almost anyone else and less than I stated in my original post. I am also flexible to allow for less or more (but not much more) coaching per request. I really am aiming to please, and want to get it right.

Please pm at greeksquared on 2+2 or email at greeksquared@hotmail.com for more info


Brief personal bio

I graduated from Texas A&M in December '03 with a degree in Applied Math.

At the end of undergrad I started playing poker with some of my fraternity brothers and made an initial deposit into Party Poker in February of '04. I was soon hooked and began playing quite a bit until I started graduate school at Rice later that Fall. I researched online vigilantly before playing seriously and treated this game like any other school endeavor. My style of play was extremely TAG as almost all material I came across at this time suggested was the correct strategy to play. As the poker boom continued I began playing on more and more sites and began to loosen up my game as the games became shorter-handed. I began reading 2+2 NL strategy sections and still do to this day. I registered back in mid 2004 so I'm sure I have read many thousands of strat posts.

Pokerroom was one of the only sites to have strictly heads up play and I slowly began to move into these games. I found that these heads-up games where much easier than any 6-max game for the sole reason that you could finally isolate the worst players and have them all to yourself. I have been playing mainly HU since then and estimate have played over 200k hands all at .5/1 NL and above.

I finished my graduate degree this last January and have spent a decent amount of time playing HU now mainly at AP because of the great rakeback deal I get.

In the mean time I also passed 4 SOA exams.

For now I am searching to use my degree to pursue a job in quantitative finance.

Also I went on a road trip all over the east coast and wrote a blog about it here

I will be going to Vegas this Friday, so hopefully I can get all the coaching and a video done by then.