I'm makin blog for poker, a LITTLE about life, and the progress. mostly to help myself stay focused, and the chance someone might read it and offer encouragement. I'm trying to make lots from poker, but also stay balanced with social/physical/mental...
background stuff:
I got into poker because I was playing gin online on yahoo.com's game site when I was bored a couple years ago. They had a limit poker game too, and gin seemed relatively simple so I got hooked on poker (I have a sortof addictive personality...)
Eventually I learned of no limit, and had to get into the fun of going "all in." I signed up at pokerstars for a play account, and read the website flopturnriver.com a ton. Quickly enough I accumulated millions of play dollars, and decided to scrape together $50 for playing the real $ games. At the time it felt real risky, haha.
I followed bankroll management and everything, liek the good boy I am, and made some moola. At a point, I decided it wasn't healthy how much I was playing, so I withdrew the $400 of the $450 I won at $5 and $10 buy in tables (aka $5nl and $10nl).
Long story cut a little bit, I got back into it after taking a while off, and got back to $500 after a bunch more of $5 and $10 NL. That was last March, when I tried out $25nl and read a couple books. That went so-so, but soon enough I was at 50nl and decided to turn "pro".
50nl started great, until after around 8k hands, when I had my first monster downswing. What a great learning experience. Long story short, I broke even for 20k hands, took a break, and got a night job at Dennys.
Dennys was a great inspiration. I mean, yea there was some fun times, but when it got bad (drunk/high ppl can do some dumb things as I should know hehe), it was stressful. When I got home, I played some of the best poker ever, because I was in such a focused mindset and wanted to be able to quit Dennys.
Where I'm at in poker...and where I'm goin
here's a graph for the first few months of this whole shenanigan
so for the next 5 months, I played poker for a profession (pay for all my stuff with it). Before that, I was paying bills by tutoring students at my university and local highschools in math and chemistry. I like doing that, but wanted a change since I'd been doing it for a while and poker felt more exciting and fresh.
My poker dream is to be competetive at least at the $1k buy ins, and use the profits to pay off my debts and towards my business, DormSource - dormsource.com. Then I want to (mostly) quit poker to focus full time on DormSource and any other projects/investments I get involved in, and possibly retire from "career" stuff to travel and do some exploring and charity type work.
I have done pretty well so far. The first real "pro" month, which is when I worked nights at dennys, I made about $4k at the $100 buy in in about 10-15k hands (winrate > 20ptbb/100 for pokerspeak).
Overall I averaged about 3k each month making 14k for a little less than 5 months. It's been hard to move up because I withdraw to pay for my car repair, rent/food/stuff...added up to about 8k over that time.
Now I'm working at succeeding on the $200 buy in level. From what I read, significant more skill is needed here, but I'm confident I'll learn to beat it based on what I've played in it so far.
anyways, here's my goals for this week...
The next 4 days, my goal is just to take a break, and not play, cold turkey style. It's not really healthy how much I've been inside and playing/thinking/reading about poker and other things.
Over the break, my goal is to go out every day, and do thinking, relaxing, partying, goofing off, yaaaaaaaaaa that. I am going to call ppl who I don't call enough anymore, and have fun! Because that's the only way to get myself in a better mind. been down a while now...so gotta fix that
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