[Phase2]

So here is my story:

I had a cushy govt job which cleared me 1.1k / 2weeks. The work was boring, the people I work with are very nice, but also very boring. I hated the cubicle lifestyle, then went through a rough patch in my life. Ended up breaking up with my girlfriend (of 4months, no biggie) and then went on a online blackjack binge... lost like 10k over the course of 2weeks, 7k of which I did not have (aka credit card dept now). After these binges, i hated myself for it and missed a lot of days of work in a short span of time, causing me to lose my job on top of accumulate a pretty massive dept.

I really really really hated myself for allowing me to lose money at blackjack, it has always been a weakness of mine , but I had never played online before until now. (and when i went to the casino, only played myabe 100-200 a night).

I decided that I would make back that money via poker. I decided to apply myself and play poker full time. I figured if i can maintain a withdrawal rate of 1.1k/2weeks I would continue with poker, if i could not maintain that win rate, i would go back to find a regular job (*puke*). For 1month , i grinded turbo rebuy sattelites (selling the seats) and 12$ 180man turbos on pokerstars. I was able to withdraw 1.1k per 2weeks and had enough to build small roll to take a shot at cash games, which was were I wanted to be at to begin with.

I was very solid at push/fold turbo poker, having played a lot of that over the last few years. I had given cash games a shot in the past, but did not have the skillset, discipline and emotional fortitude to be successful (aka i tilted way too easily/too much and always ended up busto-ing my rolls online ).

So now its been 1month that I am grinding 1-2nl (mainly) and 2-4nl , both 6max and 10max. I have been doing very good, withdrawing more then my target 1.1k/2weeks which has helped a lot towards the BJ dept.

I have also met a guy who also plays poker as main source of income as he finishes hes MBA. He has helped me a lot, he has taught me a lot about cash games, and we play at the same times which is great for moral support and just having someone in the same boat as me (playing poker as sole income).

So, thats about me, thats what i play, etc [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


If all goes well, I will do this for the next 4-6months over winter, then re-asses to see how it went. This is going to be a sweeeeeeeet winter, filled with poker, snowboarding and (hopefully) girls [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]