So I am a 29 year old male living in Tennessee and currently working FT for a cellular company making around 40k per year. I hate my job and really want to be able to spend more time with my 3 year old son. If that means making 5k or 10k less per year then so be it. You only live once and I don't want to look back and hate myself for not attempting this. I am a winning player who has been playing off and on for around 7 years. I just got serious about it again about 1 year ago after a 3year break. I am winning at a 7bb/100 clip on Bovada at 100NL right now through a 70k hand sample this year. I'm only able to play like 15 hours a week due to my job and being a single father. Being a poker professional would just open up a ton of opportunity for me to be a better father and a much happier person in general. I know poker is hard but I am more talking about the life changes would lead to me being happier than I am right now. I just got divorced and this is my chance to see if I can do this. 

I do understand this profession is a very tough one and I respect anyone you does it. I have been receiving coaching for about 5 months now and my coach seems to be very confident in my ability to easily clear my goal of 3k per month. He seems to think I'm crazy not to just quit my job now and go for it. I have a time frame of about 4 to 5 months for that. My hope is to quit my job before "Black Friday" this year bc I hate that damn day in my job. 

I will be trying to update this on a weekly basis so you all can keep up with my progress.I use PT4 so I will be posting some graphs so you all know I am serious about my results. I am a very process driven person as of late bc from all the books I have read it would seem to be the difference maker in a successful poker professional and a somewhat successful poker professional. I'm all in and going for the later. 

I am currently reading "The Poker Mindset" which is an amazing book for anyone who is wanting to get truly serious about the game of poker. It is an amazing book that has taught me so much about what I should expect as a poker player and how to handle these things by using my knowledge I have gained during my studies that other players haven't done. If I have a better understanding of where I am at mentally I am one step ahead of the competition IMO. 

~Starting with $1,000 (Just spent my BR to finish off the divorce)  at 50NL 4-tabling 6-max (Only allowed to play 4 tables on Bovada) and will be trying to log in 20 hours per week. At around 250 hands per hour I should get in around 5k hands per week. This will get me to my goal by the middle of November. Just in time to quit before Black Friday!!! 

I know this got kind of long but I hope you all will still give me some good advice and help me along the way. I will be using this as motivation so hopefully you all will be my rock to help me through the tough times. 

I cut a pasted this so I hope it turns out ok.

I know some of you know me here and know about my past issues with my mental game and BRM.  I have spent the past few months working on that aspect of my game very hard and feel it is paying off.  I still have so much work to do and look forward to the challenge ahead.  I am a very hard worker and hope this blog will pay off by keeping me focused on the "Long Term".