Now that the new site is launched and most of the technical issues are ironed out, it's time to get down to business poker-wise!  I've also been on two vacations over the past month, and I'm happy to announce that I got engaged a few days ago on a trip to Paris with my girlfriend.  We took a dinner boat cruise down the Seine river which ended up at the Eiffel Tower where after much haggling I managed to convince her to say 'yes'.  Kidding aside, I was quite happy with how it worked out.

I also went on a week-long fishing trip in Northern Ontario (Canada) on Lac Seul at Cherob Resort with a bunch of my buddies who I attended university with.  I'm no big fisherman but I managed to snag the largest fish of the week with a 7-pound/33 inch Northern Pike.  I highly recommend Cherob Resort if you're into Walleye/Pike fishing (with the occasional Muskie) as the lake there is filled with endless fish.  We'd routinely catch 15-20 fish per boat each day.  Here's a picture of a 3.25-pound Walleye I caught (yes, I threw him back as he was in the "slot", ie. at prime mating maturity).

So back to the poker scene - I have still been grinding in between my trips and the website work and things have been going well.  Now that I'm back for a while I'll be playing quite a bit of poker and I'll be focusing on ramping up our poker-related content as well.  We've added Morten who has begun producing videos for the site and I'm looking to add another coach as well.  Feedback is always appreciated, good or bad!  

I'll be producing a lot more videos myself in the near future now that things are in order.  Judging from the various member blogs/forum posts, I think there's still a lot of concepts to be reinforced at the micro-stakes so I think I'll make a few more videos there.  Please let me know if there are other videos you're interested in.

In the meantime, I have one challenge for everyone.  It seems that people still love to slowplay.  It absolutely needs to stop.  Please just take a step back for a few sessions and see what happens when you eliminate the slowplaying from your play.  When you have a strong hand, bet/raise whenever you have the opportunity.  I guarantee that you will profit much more by building the pot early rather than slowplaying and trying to get fancy.  I've gone into detail on the theory behind not slowplaying in some of my latest videos and I will be reinforcing it even more in future videos, but it still seems that people love to do it.  Just realize that in most scenarios at micro-stakes, slowplaying is costing you a lot of potential profit.  Please see my comment on this hand for a brief explanation.

That's it for my rant, good luck at the tables!

-Tim/atta22