The Start

Poker

Great place to start a blog that concentrates on poker, but I hate poker. I seem to be going through a spell where nothing works.

Some background, I've been playing poker since 2002. I started playing freerolls and even though I was probably the worlds worst player I made a few Dollars. After about a year of thrashing about playing badly I discovered a poker forum. This helped improve my game a little and was also a good spot to make some money in freerolls with smaller fields. From there I moved onto playing in small buy in games, I generally stick to playing tournaments, but occasionally I try and break into playing cash games. I seem to do OK at this for a while then I start to throw money away and move back to tournaments. I'm now a member of a few poker forums and this has help me become a better player and helped build my bankroll. Which at the beginning of the year stood at around $4000. That's where we come on to the second part of the blog.

Unemployment

In January I was made redundant, after 30 years of working in different jobs I was suddenly at home with nothing to do, which I pretty much hate. Most of my working life I have been a Stores/Warehouse Manager, except for the last few years, for those I was a Sales Rep. I was earning good money up to £35,000 a year now I'm on £60 a week jobseekers allowance. Life sucks! I promise this won't be a depressing blog even though it is starting off that way. The help that you get from the system when you are unemployed is a constant source of frustration and dark humour for me I hope I can share some of that.

Life

Well I'm married, have 3 kids and live in Norfolk UK. I'm 48 years old and generally in good health although I have got to go into hospital next week for a small operation which I'm not looking forward to. My eldest son is 17 nearly 18 and is currently looking to find which university he would like to go to and spend 3 year having his drinking interrupted by the occasional lesson. My daughter is nearly 17 and has just done her GCSE exams and will start college in September, and my youngest son is 10 and has ADHD and Asperger syndrome, more of that later.

OK there's a start lets see where we go from here.