Alex Fitzgerald

[Alaskan]

Hey, my name's Alex Fitzgerald and I just joined.

I'm a high school student and I've been playing poker for about a year. When I started I used to just gamble but I found that through learning the game's nuances and creating my own strategies that the game is more rewarding (not to mention profitable). For about six months now I have logged wins in $100.00 plus territory each month (which I know is small change compared to a lot of you guys but its a lot to a teenager) playing only a handful of home games. I want to learn more though. I have played mainly No Limit Holdem, but I want to learn about Pot Limit Omaha, Limit Stud, Razz, and I want to master the varieties of home game twists on each game. I want to learn about how to play a tournament and how to tackle the thousands of tricky situations that come up in every game. I want to learn several styles for each game and shift between them without warning during a game, picking the one most appropriate for the game at that time. I don't play poker for excitement but more for the competition and the money. I like the feeling of getting better at something I work at. Hopefully, by paying attention in these forums and seeing how my own ideas hold up in the eyes' of people who have been playing much longer than I have I will be able to further my game and get even more satisfaction from it.

Now for non-poker info:

Aside from poker I like to listen to heavy metal music - I actually have been doing for vocals for bands around the Seatte area for about two years. I write freelance in my spare time for video game and music publications to backup my poker bankroll for the dry spells. I also enjoy learning other languages, Manga, Asian women (my beautiful girlfriend of two years is Chinese), video games, and creative writing. Before I played poker to appease my lust for competition I was a boxer, wrestler, and football player. My body has since given out and become ill-equipped for those sports though.

As for my name here I wanted something simple and I thought Alaskan did the trick. I was born in the small town of Kodiak, Alaska, and even though I now currently live in a Seattle suburb I still feel very much like an Alaskan person. Up there you become very good friends with a couple people and an intense lover with one person, because there's fewer people and you need closer relationships. I'm still like that, in that I don't have hundreds of "kinda friends" but instead have a few close friends and have only had one girlfriend my whole life. I feel that trust is essential to life, and that you should help out other people as often as you can (because when you do good it always comes back around...if not directly through increased trust and respect from your friends).

Anyways, I hope to get to know you all better and I hope we can all help each other out on figuring out on how to best gut a fish.