Happy belated holidays everyone!

Sorry I haven’t been updating the blog regularly recently. I have had a ton on my plate. This post will help explain some of it.

Poker

Not much going on in poker for me recently.  I just have been pretty unmotivated since I have had such a brutal last couple of months.  I have really “plateaued” recently.  I look at all my graphs in my excel spreadsheet.  I have been pretty much break-even since the end of August.  Not good!  But at least I am not losing I guess.

Nonetheless, I expect to play a TON before year’s end.  Not for any specific reason outside of the fact that I need to make 10k VPPs before the end of the year on PokerStars in order to hit 200k for the year.  With the 200k VPP mark, will come a nice $3,400 bonus.  So it is a must that I reach that mark.  This may require me to play a bunch of games that I normally don’t play, but not reaching 200k VPPs when I am this close will just be throwing money away.

Holidays

I might as well have gotten the best Christmas present ever!  See, back in June, my dad passed away.  It is something that I still don’t think I have fully accepted to this point.  It has been a tough time for me and my family.

But we must carry on, and the present I received from my mom may very well help ease some of the pain that is still left.  I received a quilt from my mom that was made from old shirts that my dad would customarily wear pretty regularly.  As soon as I opened the box and slid away the wrapping paper, I knew exactly what it was.  It was a truly amazing feeling as I could feel my father’s presence as I was glossing over this new quilt.

What a great gift!

Possible Business Ventures

I have been diving back into looking for opportunities to start up some websites for the sole purpose of providing a service and thus providing myself with extra income.  I am not going to mention the names of the websites just yet, but stay tuned as I work on putting these sites together.  If you have been reading this blog close to its inception, you will know that it may take a while as I am a complete novice with this stuff (plus it is not like I have all that much extra time in the day).  But I am excited to think of the possibilities that these sites may bring.  I will keep you posted as these sites reach “ready for public” status.

Back to Work

Sigh, my goal to 60k really just did not pan out like I thought it would.  Though I knew I would likely not hit 60k in poker profit in 6 months, I thought I would do better than what I have.  It has been a brutal 6 months (well July was great).  The plan was to hopefully make somewhere around 50k or more.  This would have provided me with a great cushion to break away from my current job.  But looks like that plan will need to be delayed a little.  I still plan on doing it sometime soon.

But my decision isn’t just based on that.  I don’t know if anyone had been following the “Reid Bill” stuff that was being passed around in Congress for a while there.  But that really got me worried and excited at the same time.  It was basically going to fully legalize and regulate online poker (though right now it isn’t illegal).  But one stipulation that made me worried was the fact that there might have been a so-called “blackout period” that would have given us no online poker at all for 15 months.  LOL!

Well, though the end product would be great, 15 months is a long time without poker.  Though the bill was never really introduced during the lame duck session of congress, I have a feeling it may pop up again sometime in 2011.  If this is the case, and with a 15 months of no poker, I just can’t feasibly leave my current job to play poker full-time.  I could essentially be out of work for more than a year.  With a family I need to take care of, it is just too risky at this point.

So I am keeping my ear close to the ground to hear for anything that may be circulating.  This and my poor last few months have made me reconsider the jump.  But once things turn around, and I feel more secure in the fact that poker will be here for a while, it will likely be time to make the move.

Hopefully some of these websites I have dreamed up will help me leave the job I am currently at and inherently play more poker.  But that is way too premature to even think about, and likely will not be the case.  But it would be nice!

Bun in the Oven

If that wasn’t enough to scare me from making the jump.  The wife is pregnant with number 2!  She is due in late June and I am truly excited.  We should know if it is a boy or girl sometime in February.  It is pretty well-known though that I would like a boy since we already have a girl, but either way….I am excited.  I guess all you can really hope for is for the baby to be healthy.

So yea, I have alot on my plate right now.  It may not seem like much on paper, but it is.  Plus there are always even more random things, but I will save you from more boring details.