Thinking of taking the plunge into Professional Poker

External Since: Nov 16, 2007 Posts: 177

On Jun 2, 3:22 pm, "Irish Mike" <mjos....TakeThisOut@ameritech.net> wrote:
> <johnnycoconuts....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 2, 12:34 pm, "Irish Mike" <mjos....TakeThisOut@ameritech.net> wrote:
> And spending the last five or ten years, as a failed poker pro,
>
> > really doesn't look all that impressive on your resume.
>
> > Irish Mike- Hide quoted text -
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> Depends on how you write it. With a little stretching and a
> thesaurus, you could make it sound decent.
>
> Assuming you can find a corporation, in this day and age, that is too stupid
> to check your references.
>
> Irish Mike

Mike - I can get you cheap repair parts for your sarcasm detector.

External Since: Nov 19, 2007 Posts: 125

On Jun 1, 3:58 am, Preston <prestonpoul....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> Here's the May update. In May I played 145 hours and earned $5903.
> That's roughly $40 per hour which is right in line with my longer term
> average of 1.3 big bets per hours at $15-30 Hold 'em. In total, that's
> 424 big bets won over the last 335 hours of playing. I'm not sure how
> this isn't fulfilling the goals that I set out to do as Irish Mike
> suggests, given that they are my goals and I'm the one that set them
> and I seem to have fulfilled them all, but I'm sure that Irish Mike
> and all the other usenet haters are, of course, correct.
>
> At any rate, I've now statistically proven that I'm better than break
> even and can continue to post updates here about my progress as I've
> moved up limits and won more money, but, as Irish Mike points out, who
> on Earth would want to hear that on a forum like rec.gambling.poker ?
> So this will probably be my last post here.
>
> Sincerely,
> Preston

Where are you playing? A monthly update isn't a bad idea.

Croupe