This time last year....

[Ken_AA]

was just finishing casino whoring for like 80 bucks an hour, had about a 5K roll after regular withdrawls ( had no interest in gettng higher then that)

Neteller and such come to pass I cash out all but 86 dollars on stars.

Don't really play at all until they stared running sats to the weekly 100K. I now have a 475 dollars. Half is now on Absolute, and I am regularly playing above my head in the 11 Multi table Sit and Goes but running sick hot ( about 500% ROI for my first 5 tournys).

Playing about 5 tournys a week now instead of the 15- 20 hours a week I was a year ago.

Ken

[furyshade]

august of last year i won 3r (the biggest tournament i would play) for 6.5k when my br was about 1k. i had gone down a bit so my br was probably around 7k trying to learn 100nl. now im a consistent winner at 2/4nl with a br about 20k including live winnings that i am too much of a nit to ever spend

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i was backing adam junglen in some turning stone events...

how things change...

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you doing aussie or pca? i've done well rebuilding, i'm probably going to devote a good portion toward qualifying for pca this year.

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Going to Melbourne for the entire Aussie Millions series...Melbourne >>>>> Bahamas - by a lot.

You should come to Melbourne.

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i think it'd be too much time off work for me unfortunately. basically because flying adds 2 separate days by itself. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[A_PLUS]

August, 2006:
Doing a job I found mind numbingly boring, b/c I was had supported my soon to be wife though nursing school. I had been using poker as an intellectual outlet, since I thought the 19 year olds on 2+2 were smarter, and more rational than anyone I had talked to in finance. I was mostly a low limit MTT grinder, b/c I was cashing out every month to pay bills, save for a wedding, etc. I had recently found out how much money I actually had to come up with for my wedding, and honestly had no idea what I was going to do.

I took a 1500$ bonus from work, and played as much poker as I could handle. Pretty much giving up any front I had put on that I liked my job, or gave a F- if they ever decided to pay me what I was worth, I put together a resume, and started working on my poker game most of the day.

I started playing better, and started getting my share of luck. I had my first 6 figure score on party, and won enough in MTTs, cash games, and live MTTs to pay for my wedding and honeymoon. Topping off with a deep run in a party Saturday Special and just missing the FT of a US poker open prelim event on a bad beat, on 2 hours sleep and 10 red bulls.

My last day of work before my wedding, I got a job offer working with a friend that I used to work with. Much better money, and an awesome job.

Now, I grind away when I need the cash, take shots in bigger MTTs when I feel like it, and am probably worse at poker now than I was in January. But, I am now doing things in finance that I find challenging and exciting. Now, the people I meet through work often are players themselves, and see poker skill as a huge plus rather than some shady thing that you can't talk about.

I was actually at a meeting with a hedge fund a few weeks ago, and they had a chip set and decks of cards sitting on a table in there main meeting room. At my old job, we weren't allowed to have a tournament in the cafeteria after work, and we all had to promise not to tell anyone when a senior employee got into the game.

So, if any of you kids are looking to settle down with a 'regular' job, know that there are a whole lot really smart, really rich people out there, who will see "professional poker player" on the resume, and be excited to interview you.

I was building it up nice on 5/10NL and 10/20NL after getting owned by Dmitri Nobles at the WSOP Main Event.

Everything was good back then.
Just until November 06 when everything collapsed.


Still good but different these days.

[JSchnett]

As I was writting this I was thinking that last year I had just missed the WCOOP before getting into MTTs but then I realized that last year I did play the WCOOP and I was thinking of 2 years ago. That makes me really [censored] old.

1 year ago
~I was playing the stuper and only the stuper every night because it was a school night.
~Took ~30th in the $530 NLHE event #2 WCOOP, started a -20k downswing
~I had never played a live tournamnet

Now
~I never play, still school nights, have no ambition.
~Played 1 WCOOP event so far. It was the $530, did terrible. Started a +______ swing.
~played some live tournys, 2 FTs, 1 TVFT.

[NfldPwns]

Last year: Just got off a summer of KILLING 10/20 plo at Party for +80k.

This year: had a losing summer doing mtts, then busted out last night in the super tuesday for 52k...weeeee

[gimmetheloot]

1 yr ago: having back to back to back 6k months at 100NL (should have moved up Im a bitch)

Now: Losing at cash games for the last ~75k? hands or so, but +45k in donkament scores since th 13th of last month, and have barely played at all this month due to school.

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Last year: roll was about 50K after cashing for 43K in the WSOP. Also, coming right off my ME run, I won a 50K satellite that bought me into 3 WPT events + 5K cash. I thought I was on my way...

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kramer, what happened in those events? did you play all of them? sell the seats? fail to cash?

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Played in all 3 of them (it was 2 Borgata 10K events and the Bellagio 15K event). Went 0 for 3 in them, depsite being 7th in chips headed into Day 2 of the 2nd Borgata one. Good experience though and glad I had the opportunity to play so many WPT events last year. The quetion is now... will I ever make it back?

[hime]

Last year: Sold 75% of myself in the dubCOOP HORSE, got 47th, +$800. Huge cash for me.

This year: A nice 70% ROI on "other games", only sold 50%, got my ticket from points, and looking to borrow a little Gobbo money so I can final table. Whataya say, gobster? I can pay you back right after.