Kid, those are some pretty respectable sums... most of us on here would love to give up the day job to play poker, and $250,000 would certainly do it, probably quite a bit less. I'm only at the $100-150 mark, although that's playing limit $1/2 max. Did you start on limit Omaha and move to pot limit, or what? (I'm curious because I'm well over $150 up playing small-stakes limit but down playing small-stakes pot limit at present)