Change of plan

well somehow the rileys job seemed to fall through. I was offered it and it seemed like a nice place to start in the real world of work. 25k, free food and drink free membership. I play a lot of snooker!!. Their representative rung me up just to make sure i had a bar license!! WTF!!! it turned out that it was in the smallprint..sigh.

So i needed to backtrack to a job that i had put on the back-burner while i tried to sort the rileys one out. Somehow i managed to Bs my way to saying i wrote the wrong email down and i should be staring on tuesday to 29th. It is real hassle with all the refrences i need to get, most of them fake due to the experience (ssshhh) i said i have in the I.T field, well it is fair to say i have spent most of my adult life behind a computer ;-).

The DTD sceme is a funny one. I have almost ammased the number of Mpp points at the 25p/50p level and my profit so far is £800, it was at a high of £1200 after a few golden days. In this scheme there is a very fine line between profit and points accumilation, whereby sometimes you have to put the hours in even if you are running bad and fancy a break. So this has to be takin into account. I should be on 50p and £1 blinds in a few weeks and i reckon £300+ a week is a fair expectation at that level. I am really confident playing at these levels and i reckon my cash game has improved a hell of a lot. I seem to be able to read players hands for fun in cash, like i used to do in mtt's.

I have been playing a few comps here and there on stars and been getting deep in a few but not really a sniff of getting a big score there boring me a little at present. On stars i am very paranoid that every late raise is a steal so have been pushing AJ AQ a lot and been running into big hands.

The plan now is to start work, which will pay be about £1250 a month after tax (bout time i paid some) continue trader hopefully make about the same at 50p/£1 and then hopefully £2k plus per month at £1/2.

The job will be good for a few reasons.

1) extra cash obv and to get credit for eventual mortgages etc

2) the office in which im working as an I.T anaylst *ssshhh is jam packed with fanny

3) it will keep my poker fresh and relieve boredam.

4) meeting new people, ive kept the same freinds for 10 years, class lads but nothing mmuch new to talk about and my brains doing activitys have been the main topic for ages now.


eventually i wanna go back to pro but i reckon cash games throughout the week and only a few occasional tournaments at the weekend or trips to festival events is the way to go. Its almost impossible imo to make a living playing online mtts, those cold runs can only be sustained if you are a regular winner of comps when you final.

On the social side, went out saturday to walkabout for the f.a. cup final at 2:00 a massive leo-sayer then took place until 3 in the morning, cultimating in me playing the 8rb at silly oclock on stars. busted 50th out of 1400 odd when my big stack constantly got tested and i lost 4 flips and an 80/20.

Champions leauge on wednesday night and i really fancy liverpool in 90mins, if they can keep kaka on a lease which being a great defensive side they can, i think they have the belief and ability to win this 1-0. Will definately be out for a few for that, as one of my last nights of freedom.

On a final note i thank everyone who commented on the last post, most i know through blonde poker or tribeca. I think thats FuGu the last one. I have taken everything said on board and am conscious to make +ev decisions from now on and do things more proffessionaly.
until next time,
rick.