Hello. We are Heather Allen and Paul Gearan and we are very pleased to introduce ourselves\u2026drum roll please\u2026as your new Advanced Poker Training Ambassadors.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll be posting on this blog, helping with outreach to members and partners, and doing any number of odd jobs that the APT hierarchy deem worthy of our pay grade. We believe there was some mention of picking up dry cleaning and on-demand foot massages, but we were so thrilled to join the APT crew that we weren\u2019t paying much attention to the details.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the specifics, we could not be happier to be lending our skills to APT, during this exciting time of growth. We look forward to conversing with you about poker, hopes, dreams, and \u201cThe Voice\u201d (I wish I could quit you!).\u00a0 Heather wants it known for the record that \u201cThe Voice\u201d is Paul\u2019s shame not hers. OK, Paul promises to make only rare allusions to \u201cThe Voice\u201d.\u00a0 Instead, we\u2019ll use this space to discuss all things poker. We also hope to hear from all of you about your experiences and perspectives on the game.<\/p>\n
Who the heck are we boldly wading our way into this enterprise?\u00a0 We\u2019re a couple who work together (as data analysts), write together, play bar trivia together, and most importantly, play poker together.\u00a0 Most people upon hearing how much time we spend together put the odds of our relationship surviving similar to someone having to go runner-runner KK to win a hand (Heather still wakes up in a cold sweat from nightmares of getting knocked out in a tournament in that exact fashion 4 years ago). \u00a0They also suggest making sure all the sharps in our house are under lock and key.<\/p>\n
But they are ignoring one critical factor: each of us has a significant other who enjoys playing poker as much as we do!\u00a0 No ducking increasingly annoyed text messages at a once-in-a-lifetime soft table when a promise to be home by 7pm expired 4 hours ago. No need to barter cleaning the garage in exchange for a Saturday evening bounty tournament. We\u2019re both in that tournament ignoring long overdue household chores together.<\/p>\n
And why the moniker \u201cAmbassadors\u201d?\u00a0 The short list of titles included \u201cLiaisons\u201d but that sounded too illicit, and we\u2019re just not there quite yet in our relationship with all of you.\u00a0 After watching The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/em> we briefly considered \u201cConcierges,\u201d but Paul failed to correctly pronounce the word over 6 attempts, so that was out.\u00a0 \u201cSpiritual guides\u201d seemed too lofty and Burning Man for our styles and \u201cEnvoy\u201d too early Reagan administration.\u00a0 \u201cAmbassadors\u201d just had a certain dignity and je ne sais quoi<\/em> that we aspire to, so that is how we shall be known.<\/p>\n So here we are. In between trying to improve our early position play through APT tutorials and attempting to beat Scott Clements playing KQ in a Beat the Pro Challenge<\/strong>, we\u2019ll be your APT ambassadors. Please feel free to reach out to us through this space or via email (Heather\u2019s is heather.allen@advancedpokertraining.com<\/a> and Paul\u2019s is\u2026wait for it\u2026 shockingly paul.gearan@advancedpokertraining.com<\/a>).\u00a0 Good luck at the live or virtual tables.\u00a0 Check in with you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello. We are Heather Allen and Paul Gearan and we are very pleased to introduce ourselves\u2026drum roll please\u2026as your new Advanced Poker Training Ambassadors.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll be posting on this blog, helping with outreach to members and partners, and doing any number of odd jobs that the APT hierarchy deem worthy of our pay grade. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,49,8,50],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ambassadors","tag-beat-the-pro","tag-poker","tag-scott-clements"],"yoast_head":"\n