I’m an executive at a large company and I split my time between Las Vegas and a few other cities for work. In the past, up to 90% of my income has come from poker and I want to study the game seriously again.
Why start back up?
1 - I miss the game. I was never an online player, only live and I like the interaction with people, especially when playing in Las Vegas.
2 - I ran bad in October and incurred some medical bills. I won’t go into the details here but it was incredibly scary and as a result I’ve completely changed my diet. I could easily cover the costs but I’d rather pay it with OPM.
I haven’t played seriously in over 2 years so I’m easing back into the game. I’m MLife Gold and took advantage of the tier matching offered by CET. So I now have a Diamond card and have until the end of the year to earn 2500 TC, otherwise it will expire. By my count that’s just a little under 80 hours.
So, that strikes me as a reasonable goal for the next few weeks while I spend my winter in Vegas. I fully expect to be profitable at the end but I won’t put a number as an expectation on myself. I’ll just take it as it comes.