So I've finally made the switch to full time live poker pro.

It all started back in November 2012 when I was laid off my job as an accountant at a real estate company(Got let go the day after Thanksgiving). I was very unhappy with my job at the time but I was also dealing with alot of other things in my personal life that made that time especially hard. In early February, I was just getting a handle on my personal life and decided to start playing poker again. I had played in high school and college, although looking back I was pretty terrible. It was around this time that I also decided to join TPE. Right away poker concepts I had never known about began to click and I started shipping tournaments on a regular basis, mostly on bovada but also on Lock. 

All the run good came to a point when I binked a WSOP ME seat on Bovada that started with a $15 sng satty. I cannot begin to describe how amazing I felt. It was literally my dream to one day play in a WSOP event. In preperation, I decided to start playing any live tournaments I could find which were mostly Borgata events leading up to the WSOP. I played 1 event each weekend leading up to my trip to Vegas. I finished 11-13 in all 3 events. All had between 50-90k up top. I was so frustrated but at the same time hooked. I could not wait to get to Vegas.

Unfortunately, poker wise, Vegas did not go too well. I got knocked out on Day 2 of the ME and lost about 1k in cash while there. Nonetheless, the experience was absolutely incredible. I could not stop thinking about poker. Playing wasnt even the most fun thing for me. It was learning. Discussing theory with friends and learning new concepts by watching vids. Andrews videos were absolutely awesome for me. They opened my eyes to so many new concepts I could not wait to try.

Flash forward 1 month. I am still unemployed but not exactly breaking down doors looking when my friend, who is a cash game pro in AC tells me he is buying a house just outside AC. He asks if I would be interested in renting a room. Its at this point that my world completely changes. He offers to stake me at $2/5 if im interested in living with him and some of his poker friends. I immediately accept his offer and prepare to move at the end of August.

So I just moved into this house approx. 15 min away from Borgata and the other AC casinos. Its an absolute bachelor pad with an awesome finished basement and pool in the back. Living in the house is my friend who up until purchasing the house was playing $10/25 holdem and plo, his buddy who is also a $10/25 reg, and my buddy's old roomate who currently plays $5/10. So needless to say, I have a bunch of solid resources just a hallway away. 

So to bring this first and probably excuciatingly long post to a close. I recently completed my first month playing professionally. I logged 200 hours at $2/5 with $10,890 in profit. On my first day of play for the month of October, I hit the bad beat jackpot at borgata for a table share of $41k. Yea pretty sick start. So now Im officially off the stake and playing on my own. My goal is to crush $2/5 until probably next spring when hopefully I will have the experience and BR to move up to $5/10. Until then I want to try to update this once a week or so. My next update will probably include some results from the Parx Big stax which started today. Im playing tomorrow in the $300 and then next week I will be playing in the main $1k as long as I sell some of the action. Thanks for reading and wish me luck. Weeeeeeeee!