6 months in 6 paragraphs
Well, it's been quite some time since my last entry, so I guess I'll add a little something. Unfortunately, there won't be any more Officeesque stories to tell, as in March, I boarded the good ship redundancy. I think too many people view it in a negative way. It gets a lot of bad press, but it's not really that terrible. You sleep when you want for as long as you want, you can wear the same clothes for days on end. You can catch up on all those dusty dvds that you never had the time to watch. And best of all, you can scoff at all your friends who are having work problems or stresses as a result of whatever line of work they're in.
So anyways, since redunancy, I've been playing poker full time and it's gone fantastically. I've worked 211 hours to this date and have made more money in that time than I earned in my job, which was extremely lucrative for someone of my age. Sweeter still, it's all tax free. I'm playing mostly 2/4 NL though I'm overrolled for 3/6, but I'm a bankroll nit and playing 2/4 is stress free and it's easy to have a 1k session over the course of a few hours. So in terms of life changes, this is undoubtedly the best one I've made to date.
So enough of the boring poker crap anyways. At the moment, I'm living in a sweet 5 bed house in Thailand with some friends who are over here travelling. When they go home I'll be travelling indefinitely, laptop in hand around Asia, South America and wherever else takes my fancy, hopefully finsihing up in Vegas at some point in the future.
I'm hoping to update this thing a bit more regularly, though don't expect too much poker talk. I really don't have too many interesting things to say about it. When travelling to 10 places in the space of a month that are the real world equivalent of a biblical paradise, the thought of blogging about the mundanities of poker just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
Check out el stuntman for poker blogging. He's one of the few people who can actually blog about the game and make it both engaging and funny to the reader.
Instead, stay tuned for some psylicobin induced tales from Koh Phangan beach.
And of course, gl at the tables.
Ian
So anyways, since redunancy, I've been playing poker full time and it's gone fantastically. I've worked 211 hours to this date and have made more money in that time than I earned in my job, which was extremely lucrative for someone of my age. Sweeter still, it's all tax free. I'm playing mostly 2/4 NL though I'm overrolled for 3/6, but I'm a bankroll nit and playing 2/4 is stress free and it's easy to have a 1k session over the course of a few hours. So in terms of life changes, this is undoubtedly the best one I've made to date.
So enough of the boring poker crap anyways. At the moment, I'm living in a sweet 5 bed house in Thailand with some friends who are over here travelling. When they go home I'll be travelling indefinitely, laptop in hand around Asia, South America and wherever else takes my fancy, hopefully finsihing up in Vegas at some point in the future.
I'm hoping to update this thing a bit more regularly, though don't expect too much poker talk. I really don't have too many interesting things to say about it. When travelling to 10 places in the space of a month that are the real world equivalent of a biblical paradise, the thought of blogging about the mundanities of poker just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.
Check out el stuntman for poker blogging. He's one of the few people who can actually blog about the game and make it both engaging and funny to the reader.
Instead, stay tuned for some psylicobin induced tales from Koh Phangan beach.
And of course, gl at the tables.
Ian
posted by Ian at 5:06 PM
5 Comments:
you bastard!
now I'm on jealousy tilt....
Sweet Ian, sounds amazing. May I ask how many tables you play, do you play 6/9 man tables? And whats your VPIP/PFR?
Loving what you are doing, and the very best of luck :)
I play 4 tables of 6 max at a go. Would play 8 but I cant use the mini tables on ipoker and I only have my laptop. Still 4 is enough to make a good profit. Whenever I get home I plan on buying another LCD to go with the one I have in Ireland so that I can 8 table.
I recently decided to change my game a bit and have gone from 20/14 previously to 28/24 this month. I played 15k hands in August using my new style and the results were great. One of my best ever months.
I basically added a new range of hands from every position as well as raising almost every pot I enter and isolating fish more, where as before I may just have limped behind with the likes of connectors/gapped connectors etc.
Hopefully, the reuslts will remaina s good in Septemeber. Saw your blog is updated as regularly as my own!
You're still a fish......
haha, yeah don't know where I am at these days! I should really write something new. Might help me focus some!
Are you still in Thailand, I meant to drop you a PM to see if you wanted to meet for a beer as I was there a couple of weeks ago.
Next time maybe...
Hope the results are still going well, ross_kirwan@hotmail.com if you ever wanna msn, I'm usually in Thailand 2 times a year
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