Trials and Tribulations of an Internet Grinder

Well at first I had intended for this to be a week by week account of life as a professional internet poker player. I wanted to start out 8-Tabling the $55 SnG's and over the year work my way up to the $215 SnG's and Beyond. Currently I am still 4-Tabling the $33 SnG's, there are many reasons for this but it has taught me a great lesson about playing poker for a living. that lesson is no matter how much planning you do. variance and fate will always throw some jabs to derail progress temporarily. It is during these times that the "True" winning players seperate themselves for the weak-minded fish. So all that being said I have decided to delay the start of my official online poker career until the start of the new year. So for the year of 2006 I hope to make at least $60,000 ($70,000 if rakeback is still around). My bankroll should be about $10,000 on Jan. 1, 2006 and thus I will start out 8-Tabling the $55 and $109 SnG's. I think that my goal is reasonable and will require me to play about 30 hours/week, which is very doable especially with that salary.

So what am I doing until then? Well I will still be updating this blog regularly as I hope to gain a few readers before the start of my "Career". I'm gonna keep grinding away at the $33 SnG's, eventually move to the $55 SnG's and hopefully pad wmy bankroll with another $7,000 before the end of the year. So therin lies another mini challenge, in the next 3 months I must make at least $7,000. Wish me luck.