What this is all about

Before Suzy went to the other side, we always talked about when I would pursue professional poker as a full time job. She knows it is what's in my heart. We always thought it would be when she finished school and started working again. As you know, things happened differently for us. What hasn't changed is that Suzanne taught me to follow my heart, and she also enjoyed having a few hundreds in her pocket after a winning session. Winning at poker has always come pretty easily for me, and to a large extent, I have been paying the bills through poker for awhile. Now that I have time on my hands, I want to see how far I can take it. I have a unique, but relatively small window to pursue one of my dreams, and I'm going after it.

This blog will be about my career as a professional poker player. I hope it's a great creative outlet for me. It will not be my forum for pouring my heart out about Suzy, or life without her - unless it relates to poker. Instead, I will be posting updates about my wins and losses, struggles and victories. It will serve 2 purposes : it may be entertaining for some to follow and root me on, while learning about the "grind" that it takes to gamble professionally, and it will also hold me accountable for my results by posting them publicly. I will be setting achievement goals, and posting them - I need tangible results versus expectations to gauge success. Gamblers lie much more to themselves than others, and by keeping things public, I will avoid that pitfall.

My next post will have an introduction to what being a "low-level" professional poker player means, as well as my specific performance metrics. I hope you enjoy this blog. I anticipate that I will enjoy writing it. I need a project for my own therapeutic purposes, and this is what I'm choosing.