BelgoSuisse
Legend
Silver Level
YSY! March is finally over! 
arty:
Take a look at this: https://www.cardschat.com/forum/general-poker-13/175k-ftpoints-20days-147993/
if it happens, it would be epic.
arty:Take a look at this: https://www.cardschat.com/forum/general-poker-13/175k-ftpoints-20days-147993/
if it happens, it would be epic.
F Paulsson
euro love
Silver Level
I realize that April 1st is a really bad day for making announcements, but whatever: I'm going to play poker for a living for the next five months.
http://fredrikpaulsson.blogspot.com/2009/04/hell-just-froze-over.html
Cliffnotes: My company has financial problems due to customers not paying our invoices, and in an attempt to save them some money and get to be home with Lori and the baby I've offered to take a leave of absence for five months.
So for most intents and purposes, I'll be a poker pro for awhile. We live in interesting times.
http://fredrikpaulsson.blogspot.com/2009/04/hell-just-froze-over.html
Cliffnotes: My company has financial problems due to customers not paying our invoices, and in an attempt to save them some money and get to be home with Lori and the baby I've offered to take a leave of absence for five months.
So for most intents and purposes, I'll be a poker pro for awhile. We live in interesting times.
nevadanick
Back to work ... zzzzz
Silver Level
I also liked the added touch of the front page being signed by "SENATOR Steve Beshear".
Beshear is the GOVERNOR of Kentucky, not one of it's Senators. (unless he recently promoted himself)
That was my first clue that the page was bogus ... ... I also read elsewhere that the Seal used is an old version with the old Kentucky Department of Justice name.
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and it goes w/o saying - Best o' Luck to you - FP !!!! Keep us informed.
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Beshear is the GOVERNOR of Kentucky, not one of it's Senators. (unless he recently promoted himself)
That was my first clue that the page was bogus ...
... I also read elsewhere that the Seal used is an old version with the old Kentucky Department of Justice name.---------------------------------------------
and it goes w/o saying - Best o' Luck to you - FP !!!! Keep us informed.
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BelgoSuisse
Legend
Silver Level
Wow, that's pretty big news.
Well, I guess for someone who has a pretty good job to begin with, that's both a shame that the company has trouble and a unique opportunity to try out the poker pro life with less afterthoughts then actually leaving your job.
Good luck to you. Looking forward to hearing about your progress over the next five months. Hope you'll enjoy it.
N
nicoiko
Visionary
Silver Level
Sounds like a lot of companies have those problems lately.
Anyway I wish you the best FP.
Take care.
tenbob
Legend
Silver Level
F Paulsson
euro love
Silver Level
This is all in the very early planning stages, but I'm shooting for about 100h/month, typically playing around 4h/day broken up in three chunks. So the typical day may be something like this:
- Breakfast, read the news, take a shower.
- Watch a training video, review yesterday's session, make notes.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Take a break, have lunch, do some stuff around the house, etc.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Another break, relax in the yard, read a book, whatever.
- Have dinner.
- Play for 60-90 minutes.
- Have the night off and do whatever I feel like.
I'm hoping to play about 50-70k hands/month on this schedule, maybe more. With 50k hands I need an average win-rate of 3bb/100 (or 1.5ptbb/100) to make ends meet. Add bonuses and that my average win-rate has been about twice that in the past five months and that I'm hoping to improve a lot as a player, and things could work out very well. The really important thing to remember is that I'm not dependent on wins to make it through these five months and if things turn completely sour we'll still be OK. We'll no longer have the massive savings account that we currently have, but we'll hopefully have had an interesting experience and lots of time spent with the baby.
Jagsti
I'm sweet enough!
Silver Level
Good luck with this Fred, I hope it goes really well for you.
Jagsti
I'm sweet enough!
Silver Level
Just a thought FP, have you not thought about scheduling some of your day's play to include peak hours for the USA time, ie when more of their fishies will be playing. Or are you happy with taking money from the Euro donks?
