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06-25-2005, 01:04 AM
Post subject: I am no longer a professional poker player
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I just signed an offer to go work for Blizzard in Irvine CA.
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TylerK: its just gambling if i want to worry about money i'll go to work lol
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Good on you m8...!!
Poker isn't going anywhere and if it is, then it is pretty nice to have another job.
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06-25-2005, 01:37 AM
Post subject: Re: I am no longer a professional poker player
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Originally Posted by Fnord
I just signed an offer to go work for Blizzard in Irvine CA.
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Make sure and check out the Middle limit games at the Commerce.
You gonna hook us up with some video game deals?
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To win in poker you only need to be one step ahead of your opponents. Two steps may be detrimental.
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Fnord
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06-25-2005, 02:04 AM
Post subject: Re: I am no longer a professional poker player
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Originally Posted by Demiparadigm
Make sure and check out the Middle limit games at the Commerce.
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Definatly!
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Originally Posted by Demiparadigm
You gonna hook us up with some video game deals?
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You know the answer is no...
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what about yr part time job as poker instructor? i'm about ready to give it a go.
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Bogus....
Whats your reasoning? Not making enough or got tired of waking up at noon every day?
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Fnord
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Originally Posted by elipsesjeff
Whats your reasoning? Not making enough or got tired of waking up at noon every day?
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Lots of reasons.
Income is one, I made some pretty good money, but not as much as I did when I was a developer. It's also harder to move up when poker is your paycheck.
Another thought is that the longer I stay out the industry, the harder it would be to get back in at the same level.
Part of me really wants to move to Cali. I was seriously looking at Nevada anyway, but moving is really expensive when you're footing the bill. Although it could be a lot worse, I really wanted to get into a more poker-friendly location.
Finally, it's a hell of an oportunity. I'm going to be back in a small team, an environment similar to the one at Microsoft where I moved up really really fast.
I haven't really "worked" a whole lot in my life (the last 2-3 years at MS were the least I've liked a job in a long time.) I hope to "work" a lot less in the future.
I was in a phase of my life where I was looking for something, hopefully I found it.
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It sounds like a good choice Fnord. I hope the job is everything you hope for. But I do hope it doesn't mean that you stop postig here when you get busy at work 
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I'd love to work for Blizzard, that's not anywhere near what I'm studying for though.
I'm sure working for Blizzard and playing poker part-time will provide a healthy income.
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Just don't make Starcraft 3 suck As was said, poker isn't going anywhere and keeping options open and making connections is great. GlHf!
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ill settlefor starcraft 2..
starcraft was the best!!!
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Hey fnord, Im about 2 hrs from Irvine...good to see ya moving in a positive direction with your life. Good luck to ya.
If you ever wanna make a vegas trip and get together to put in some good B&M poker time shoot me a PM
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Dont F' with me, I can grind it out like a bot
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ill settlefor starcraft 2..
starcraft was the best!!!
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Ah, you're right. For some reason I counted BW as "2" 
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Perhaps a boring question but I'm gonna ask how many hands you played a week and how hard it was to fight burnout.
In a couple of months poker will be my primary source of income, not really going pro just taking a year out. Anyway I want to know how hard it's going to be to play poker for several hours most days.
Good luck in the new job BTW.
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Originally Posted by Phyl
Perhaps a boring question but I'm gonna ask how many hands you played a week and how hard it was to fight burnout.
In a couple of months poker will be my primary source of income, not really going pro just taking a year out. Anyway I want to know how hard it's going to be to play poker for several hours most days.
Good luck in the new job BTW.
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I graduated from college about 2 months ago and decided to play poker full time for 6 months to a year before trying to find a job. I have been playing about 10,000 hands/week playing 4-tables of 3/6 ring with maybe another 1000 hands per week 2-tabling 5/10 6-max and haven't suffered any burnout yet. In fact at the rate it's been going, I'm having a difficult time convincing myself that I should go out and look for a real job at all.
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Seems like a reasonable choice to me!
Good oportunities don't knock on your door every day.
Hope everything works good for you in this "new" career.
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Originally Posted by Phyl
Perhaps a boring question but I'm gonna ask how many hands you played a week and how hard it was to fight burnout.
In a couple of months poker will be my primary source of income, not really going pro just taking a year out. Anyway I want to know how hard it's going to be to play poker for several hours most days.
Good luck in the new job BTW.
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I graduated from college about 2 months ago and decided to play poker full time for 6 months to a year before trying to find a job. I have been playing about 10,000 hands/week playing 4-tables of 3/6 ring with maybe another 1000 hands per week 2-tabling 5/10 6-max and haven't suffered any burnout yet. In fact at the rate it's been going, I'm having a difficult time convincing myself that I should go out and look for a real job at all. |
10k hands 4 tabling must be about 40 or more hours, that sounds a bit extreme. My original plan was to play 10k hands of 3/6 a week but playing 6-8 tables provided I can find enough good games.
I'm very sure I'd suffer some serious burnout playing for as long as you play.
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Originally Posted by Phyl
Perhaps a boring question but I'm gonna ask how many hands you played a week and how hard it was to fight burnout.
In a couple of months poker will be my primary source of income, not really going pro just taking a year out. Anyway I want to know how hard it's going to be to play poker for several hours most days.
Good luck in the new job BTW.
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I graduated from college about 2 months ago and decided to play poker full time for 6 months to a year before trying to find a job. I have been playing about 10,000 hands/week playing 4-tables of 3/6 ring with maybe another 1000 hands per week 2-tabling 5/10 6-max and haven't suffered any burnout yet. In fact at the rate it's been going, I'm having a difficult time convincing myself that I should go out and look for a real job at all. |
10k hands 4 tabling must be about 40 or more hours, that sounds a bit extreme. My original plan was to play 10k hands of 3/6 a week but playing 6-8 tables provided I can find enough good games.
I'm very sure I'd suffer some serious burnout playing for as long as you play. |
I have found 10K hands 4-tabling to only be between 30-35 hours/week. Be careful if you move up to 8 tables at a time during workday hours. I tried 6 tables at a time for a while when I first started and had my worst downswing ever. It might have just been a coincidence, but I think playing that many tables at once for long periods of time was too much for me to be able to keep playing at my normal level. I have been doing very well at 4-tables since reverting back though.
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Phyl
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Originally Posted by Phyl
Perhaps a boring question but I'm gonna ask how many hands you played a week and how hard it was to fight burnout.
In a couple of months poker will be my primary source of income, not really going pro just taking a year out. Anyway I want to know how hard it's going to be to play poker for several hours most days.
Good luck in the new job BTW.
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I graduated from college about 2 months ago and decided to play poker full time for 6 months to a year before trying to find a job. I have been playing about 10,000 hands/week playing 4-tables of 3/6 ring with maybe another 1000 hands per week 2-tabling 5/10 6-max and haven't suffered any burnout yet. In fact at the rate it's been going, I'm having a difficult time convincing myself that I should go out and look for a real job at all. |
10k hands 4 tabling must be about 40 or more hours, that sounds a bit extreme. My original plan was to play 10k hands of 3/6 a week but playing 6-8 tables provided I can find enough good games.
I'm very sure I'd suffer some serious burnout playing for as long as you play. |
I have found 10K hands 4-tabling to only be between 30-35 hours/week. Be careful if you move up to 8 tables at a time during workday hours. I tried 6 tables at a time for a while when I first started and had my worst downswing ever. It might have just been a coincidence, but I think playing that many tables at once for long periods of time was too much for me to be able to keep playing at my normal level. I have been doing very well at 4-tables since reverting back though. |
Well I've been playing 4 tables for ages now and I now get bored easily waiting for a new decision so I think it might become easier to do if I play more tables. I'll probably be playing anywhere within the period 9pm-4am which is 4pm-11pm EST so the games should be fairly good.
Anyway, good luck.
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06-28-2005, 12:37 AM
Post subject: Re: I am no longer a professional poker player
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I just signed an offer to go work for Blizzard in Irvine CA.
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cool you are working a a game company that is AWSOME.
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Fnord
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06-28-2005, 12:48 AM
Post subject: Re: I am no longer a professional poker player
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I just signed an offer to go work for Blizzard in Irvine CA.
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cool you are working a a game company that is AWSOME. |
For those that don't know, I used to work for Xbox Live. I was there pretty close to the start of Software development as the 5th or so Engineer put on the project. Well before Xbox shipped.
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nice job, best of luck to you.
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can i have those glasses?
i will wear em in the wsop
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DoGGz
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Fnord, can you leak what you will be working on with Blizzard?
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Fnord, can you leak what you will be working on with Blizzard?
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Battle.net.
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What did you say Fnord when they asked you what you've been doing the last 3-4 months instead of at Microsoft? I'm curious how you brought your professional poker career into the interview.
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Fnord, can you leak what you will be working on with Blizzard?
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Battle.net. |
Kewl! Now fix that damn open-game lag! 
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Fnord
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What did you say Fnord when they asked you what you've been doing the last 3-4 months instead of at Microsoft? I'm curious how you brought your professional poker career into the interview.
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I just said it. Given that I was mostly talking to game companies I wasn't around many of the kind of people that would hold it against me.
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Good luck , Fnord.
Life is +EVwhen you have lots of options.......
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Gone golfing ..see ya in the Fall of 2006
PS. What did the snail on the turtle's back say?
Wheeeeeeeee........
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Congrats.
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Poker is freedom
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10-20-2005, 06:53 PM
Post subject: Re: I am no longer a professional poker player
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I just signed an offer to go work for Blizzard in Irvine CA.
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A guy I play home games with just started working at Blizzard. He is working on World of Warcraft as a "Game Master". So if you meet someone named Nicolai who likes to pretend he is Russian, invite him out for some easy money.
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Tell geoff frazier I said hi. He banned me from the forums multiple times. He even closed my Warcraft in-game account for forum trolling. Much love <3
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