Big Deal

Here's a highly relevant piece of news from the home/poker overlap.

After 19 years in the financial markets, including 13 years at my current employer, I have decided that it's time to take a total change of direction. I have resigned "to pursue my interests in poker". In the short term, this will mean spending time at home with the family and playing poker !

The usual way that an amateur player decides to give up his job to play poker is that he's been playing and winning for years (maybe decades) and is now finding that he makes more from playing poker than the day job. He considers carefully, and eventually takes a big step into the unknown.

Well, in my case, I can say that I have considered carefully but apart from that I don't have too much in common with the paradigm. I've been playing for only 2-3 years and I'm a pretty average player (which means I am also a steady loser). In any event, even if I were winning, it would be fanciful to think I could win more than I can earn in the financial industry.

Nevertheless, for me, it's the right decision.

In the very short term, I have actually been playing less poker. I haven't played online at all since I resigned because I want to get myself organized. I also would like to start off winning so I want to be in the right frame of mind. I might not play at all until I have actually finished working my notice etc.

Once I am a free agent, of course I will be playing online and I will take a look to see which live events I should play. GPT or GUKPT events or other UK/Ireland festivals are an obvious choice. EPT also, possibly. There's so much choice these days that just choosing may be a difficulty !