Where I’ve Been / Where I’m Going (in re: poker)
Hey guys,
Been a while since I've been on here so I thought I'd check in. Really since the summer in Vegas I haven't been able to truly buckle down and grind like I should have and the fact that I haven't been playing well hasn't exactly helped the motivation to sit and grind out a high volume of tournaments. So I've mainly just taken a lot of time off from the game and attempted to figure out what the next step for me will be, along with playing LOTS of golf and going out a copious amount. While I do still (somewhere inside) love the game of poker the passion I had to get better just hasn't manifested itself properly in a long time so I am finally taking the leap and quitting as a FT poker professional.
A lot of people have asked me why I would do it because its such an awesome lifestyle and essentially the best way I can describe it is that its not fulfilling anymore to constantly be pressing to be better, I feel like by moving on to something else, in this case getting my real estate license, I can maybe find the deep drive I had about 6 years ago when I started this ride.
This doesn't mean I'm leaving PokerSavvy+ or anything like that. It doesn't mean I'm quitting poker, I'll still be playing some 10k's and 5k's live as well as days online when I am up to it. It doesn't mean you'll get less videos from me (even though that would be hard in the last months). Quite the opposite, I think while I am playing I will likely be more apt to fire up a video. All it really means is that every Sunday/Monday/Wednesday are blacked out on my schedule for poker days. I'll still sit down and occasionally grind a 12hr session, but its going to be far from the norm. Going into this Sunday it will be the last one which I consider myself a poker professional and will be going out in style with the WCOOP ME, FTP $500, WCOOP 2nd Chance and a hoard of other big tournaments. If I could pick a day to go out this would be the one I would pick. I'm going to attempt to record as much as I can and play as well as I can and hopefully, we can get a nice long video series of the new poker hobbyist winning a couple million dollars.