Philossify launches a Full Time Poker career

[Valiant23]

Originally Posted by GotaFancy?

Hope you don't mind - really felt this deserved a thread of its own!!!!!!

Just to add that little extra pressure.


Phil.

What can I possibly say?

You are a good player, and see no reason why you can't make this work if you apply yourself properly. It is obvious that you have thought about this carefully, and seem to be aware of the risks/pitfalls as well as the rewards.

All I can do is wish you as much luck as you need, and hope that your new lease of life leads to happiness and fulfilment.

[pistonbroke]

respect

[Jaded]

Good luck Phil! Really hope you do well at this, will be interested to see how you go.

(Especially since I want to turn professional myself one day - although in my case it's just one of 1523 careers which would be better than teaching!!)

[Ell Ess Dee]

VERY brave mate, i wish you the best of luck (sorry, i just wish you the best)..

Best of luck mate, Hope it all works out and brings you plenty of sucess and profit

Will eagerly await updates

[georgej]

One thing i always hate about MTT's is the rebuys and Add-ons. Until after the first hour it can be hell even trying to play.

How will you keep sane (assumptions made) playing these on a more regular basis?

[philossify]

Hi George,

At the moment, I hardly ever play rebuy/addon MTTs or if I do I only play cheap ones and never rebuy/addon - once I've lost my initial chip allocation I go. What I find is that these tournaments attract more than their fair share of all-in maniacs, give them an A and they are away, so if you wait for a good hand and one of these all-in maniacs goes all-in you have a good chance of doubling up and then you have less chance of needing to rebuy anyway. If you can survive and prosper a little up to the break without a rebuy then you are effectively in a "added value" game.

More I think about it, I should try a few of the more expensive ones and see if theres any maniacs inhabiting those as they could be good opportunities.

Find betfred is the best site for all-in maniacs .

[winty1]

Great reply Phil

I wish you the best of luck, and I will see you at the tables

p.s. you should look into getting rakeback with one of the crypto skins, 30% of the rake/tourney fees back each month helps a lot

[georgej]

Good luck with those maniacs.

I've just uninstalled party poker to make sure i never play against the loonies again. $5 MTT and people going allin with AQo beat my JJ and also had trip 7's with 2 hearts showing after the turn. Went allin and beaten on the river with a middling flush. Maybe i'm just having a bad day.

[Doddsy]

Best of luck Phil, sure you'll keep everyone posted how you get on. It can be done -Live the Dream!!

[Football-Tipper]

Good Luck Phil
And you will want to come to Vegas with us next year then...Serious cash to be made at The Imperial Palace...




Football-Tipper

[stereoman]

If you ever see a guy called 'alchamos' on your table, do take all his cash off him. Please.

Play the cards as they come and be careful of a juiced deck.

[msaban]

good luck phil

Mike

[friskyfitz]

Just seen this now..............

Heres to a prosperous new year and new venture

Best of luck mate

[laidbackbloke]

Good luck mate and enjoy the early retirement Since you're not relying on an income from the poker there is no pressure on you ...................... sounds like a fun way to spend your time

[BillyHills]

Best Wishes mate!

Keep a diary, would be great to read in a few years when youve cracked it.

BH

[Danny Cash]

I know we're only 8 days into the new year and it's less than 20 days since your announcement, but how are you doing Philossify?! Bring the lounge some hope!!!

Danny

[Big Andy]

nice "bump" Danny.

Yeah phil, hows it coming along ?

[philossify]

Hi Guys,

Have played suprisingly little poker this year so far ... but thats gonna change.

Retired (maybe non permanently but I'm hoping) on Thursday. Spent £350 on a boozeup for my workmates - its amazing how cheap beer is when you buy it by the barrel . The brain relief at not having to do "real" work is immense - all the more brain cycles to devote to poker. Life at the moment feels good - walked 15 miles round London yesterday - feeling really fit (may even join a gym and get rid of this beer gut). Signed up for French Cookery evening lessons for next 6 weeks - only problem is that its a Wednesday (7 to 9:30) so I will be late getting to the SO dollar up.

Rest of January will be spent sorting out my finances (loads-a-money coming in most of which goes straight into getting my mortgage down so that I can survive on my pension if need be), visiting family and putting my poker plans and accounts in good order (more to follow on this). Did a survey of all the accounts I've got and found theres about £700 resting in about 15 accounts (and another 15 with nought in them) - plan to get down to only 4 sites if I can (probably Betfair,Laddies plus couple of others). Will keep others alive just for the odd fun game - SO dollar up for example.

First financial quarter of my poker empire building starts Feb 1st - ends April 30th. Before then (this month) I will probably invest and hopefully win some money - if I don't then it won't bode well for 1st quarter, in playing 100 or so £5 STTs (3 at a time) on Betfair (although I can also play these from my Littlewoods account as well). I will post my results on these and also put up my Feb-Apr plan asap (for criticism / suggestions). May even extend my experiment (100 STTs, 3 at a time should only take about 50 hours elapsed time by my reckoning) to investigating STTs on another site (BetFred?).

Am even thinking of trying to put together some home grown software to automagically find the mugs on the Betfair STT circuit - so I can keep out of games with Winty1 and the like - it would be nice to have a profits ranking of the regulars so that you can choose games involving best proportion of regular losers and smallest proportion of regular winners. Could do it manually by compulsively scanning the finished games - but that seems a drag - whether I can figure out some software to do it is questionable.

So "Watch this space", I expect to be posting more than usual as I have all this spare time .

[Football-Tipper]