Philossify launches a Full Time Poker career

[philossify]

Hi all, :drums :drums :drums just about to start my poker "career". Jan 5th I escape from work. "I'm not doing any work, give me some money and I'll go away" I said and lo and behold they gave me some money :lol. I'm a simple man with simple basic needs (wine, women. song, poker) and have happily discovered that my early pension will (just about) keep me in those basic needs, whats left over I intend to waste. So come Feb 1st or thereabouts I intend to start my retirement plan - playing poker a little more seriously (hopefully having left work behind the freed up brain cycles can be used for profitable fun :cow ). Its my intent to devote about 40 hours per week to Poker and reach a stage (by year end) where I'm supplementing my pension by something akin to minimum wage (£6 per hour) which equates (since its tax free) to me working for £15K+ per year - not a lot but as its all gravy its significant. I'm hoping to keep good records which I intend to share with you guys. If that works then I'll start stretching a bit and see if I can make more. If it fails, then I might have to look for a real job once more :puke or sell up and move abroad or find a rich widow to fund me (preferably looking something like the one off the Scottish Widows ad :ok ). I'm currently thinking that I will experiment for first 3 months (Feb,March,April) with a mix of STTs (£5,$10,£10) and "value" MTTs (such as the 9:00 am Betfair game - something to get me out of bed :) ) and see this site as helping me do that. Means I'll be cutting out some of the "lottery" freerolls (or entering them, playing lots of very loose all ins at the start and then if I survive playing very tight for a while, so that they move from cost ineffective to cost effective) . If that don't work might have to give NL ring games a go (not my preferred option). One thing I definitely won't be cutting out (unless it starts attracting lots more entries) is the "dollar up" on SO. Thats one fun (and profitable) tournament. I may even start doing a real face-to-face tournament once a week in one of the Casinos in Southampton (do they still allow smoking which was what put me off in the past). So watch this space and hopefully applaud a successful enterprise or sympathise with me as I fail. The initial funding is "free money" from the £2000 or so I've slowly accumated from playing freerolls and suchlike over the past year (ROI probably a huge percentage but amount per hour probably crap). I'm a tight so and so such that if it ever gets to the stage of funding it with my own money then I'll take that as a sign that my poker skills are not up to the requisite standard and go back to freerolls. :cheers

[the tufty fan club]

Re: My poker "career" Good luck with this venture Philossify :hope Looking forward to seeing how you do in the coming months