'Tis the season
Another Christmas season has come and gone. Here are some highlights from this year:-Our first Christmas in the new house for Missy and myself. We're about 95% unpacked and settled.
-Had her family over to watch the Chiefs game. Missy loaded us up with some good gametime snacks including a double batch of Mom's sausage dip...which we're still trying to finish off... lol
-Ate tons of good food, exchanged gifts, and celebrated Christmas with her family.
Lowlights:
-Didn't get to see my family at all :-(
-Still can't seem to win at poker this month.
So that pretty much sums up Christmas this year. I'm mostly looking forward to January for a new year and a new beginning. Should be lots of fun stuff going on such as:
Heading down to Mobile, Alabama on January 4th to see my family and watch dad's team play in the GMAC Bowl. Go Southern Miss!Check out the game on Sunday, Jan 7th on ESPN or ESPN2. Look for me in the stands!
"Going Pro" -- at least for a little while. The my results as of late haven't exactly been stellar, but I feel if I have to I can always drop down to 2/4 or 3/6 for a while. I was checking out my lifetime 5/10nl stats and winrate this weekend. It's not that great but I only have 77k hands so far at 5/10 and I've run horribly for at least half of those hands. I've still made decent money overall but I could definitely improve.I took a failed shot at 25/50nl on Christmas Eve. There was a huge fish there, so a buddy of mine offered to take 1/2 my action. Unfortunately I made a questionable turn semibluff CRAI with the nut flush and got called by trips no kicker and I couldn't suck out. The fish later busted by getting AI PF w/ KJs vs QQ and the queens held up "one time".
I figure I'll play poker for at least the month of January and re-evaluate after that. If it's too much stress or if I'm not satisfied with the money I'm making then I'll go find another programming contract and just work for the man. Basically if I'm not consistantly making double what I would being a programmer, than I'll go back to the work and poker gameplan. Ideally I want to make 25k per month playing full time, which would be $300k per year. The assumption is that I'll have more time to focus on poker and get more hands in to attain that goal. We'll see. Thankfully my job situation (doing independent consulting) makes it real easy to go from "poker pro" to "working stiff." A lot of people don't have that freedom, so for that I'm thankful. No one in my line of work would bat an eye at a 6 month "hole" in the resume.
Going to buy myself a new laptop for portable ballin' ;-)
If anyone has any suggestions on good laptops, I'm all ears. My basic criteria is this: Needs a good enough video card for high resolution (minimum 1600x1200) and something that can play video games well. I like the 'glossy' looking screens, the bigger the better. Fast processor and at least 2 gb ram. Please send me an email or something if you have any good suggestions.
I'll post a year end review coming up soon.
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 8:04 AM
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