Welcome to my Blog!!!

Hello and welcome to my blog, this is my 1st attempt at doing anything like this and English was never my strong point so please excuse my spelling and punctuation.

Ok let me introduce myself, im 30 and live 10 miles from Newcastle in Northumberland, ive been playing online poker for 2 ½ years now and have done ok from it making a decent profit from my original £50 deposit I spent the 1st 6 months playing $0.10 and $0.50 STT’s just trying to learn the game since then my game has improved greatly and I now play up to $10/$20 NL cash but my main enemy has always been bankroll management although recently ive been reading up a lot on this but I still have a lot to learn about it, I have also started playing more live games at the local Casino in Newcastle and ive just been on a trip to Vegas where I played a lot of live Cash games, I also work full time doing 45 hours a week which is tough to do when also putting in 30+ hours a week on the poker I don’t find much time to sleep.

Ok so lets get to the reason for this blog I feel doing this will help my discipline and bankroll management, ive set my self a little challenge to try and win enough from poker to pay off my mortgage within 2 years hopefully sooner but I feel 2 years is a realistic target.

I am going to be playing 2/4 NL cash and maybe a little 3/6 if im running well, but I will also be playing a few STT’s and the occasional MTT, I play most of my poker on Pacific and PokerStars the problem with pacific is the poor rakeback deals and difficulty getting games at certain times but the standard of players on there makes up for this downfall as I think they have the biggest amount of fish on there ive ever seen on any poker site.

Ok lets get to the targets, im hoping to make a profit of $200 a day which I think is an achievable target and would give me around $70,000 for the year, I think I can make $500 a day but have set my aim at $200 and anything more is a bonus and means I will reach my target of $125,000 sooner, I currently have $27,000 in pacific and $5000 in stars, I have just withdrawn $7000 out of my pacific account to pay off my credit card and pay for my next trip to Vegas in October, so I have a total of $25000 to start with and would like to get to $125,000 within 2 years but as I said above hopefully this will be sooner.
If I do manage to achieve this goal and constantly show monthly profit I will then spend the next few months building up a decent roll again and I will quit my job and take up poker full time as I wont have a mortgage my monthly outgoings will be minimal I feel I have the game to play full time but don’t think I could quit working while I still have a mortgage hanging over my head.

So the challenge starts tomorrow 9th April 2007 I will post regular updates on here of my progress and I hope I can inspire a few people to do the same, I know this is going to be tough and it may not happen I may lose the lot but I feel I owe it to myself to atleast give it a go and I love poker so if I can do something I love and make money from it well I cant think of a much better life, there’s sure to be up’s and downs during this challenge but I would love to hear any comments anyone has wether there good or bad I have thick skin so you can say what you like, id particularly like any advice anyone can give about the targets ive set , staking plans and bankroll management as im always willing to learn.

Ok let the rollercoaster ride begin see you at the tables.

TW