No longer pro. Have any questions?

[bisonbison]

Bison,

I am curious if you could comment on how your interviews went when it came to what you had been doing? did you go into details of what life was like as a poker pro? How were the reactions from the employer?? this is really just an open-ended question on anything interesting in your interviews with the folks at Google...

I promised myself I'd be as honest as possible during the interview process. The resume they had was from August (when we never quite got around to an interview). So when they asked me what I'd been doing in the meantime I told them the truth: I've been supporting myself as a poker player. "It's been financially rewarding, but not very interesting and I'm eager to get back into a team atmosphere."

That was it. If they'd asked I could have talked about hours and self-discipline and whatever, but basically, they liked me and didn't feel that it reflected poorly on me (especially considering the bay area tech job market).

The most interesting part was that, having signed an NDA for the interview, they still couldn't tell me any details about the gmail support group I'll be working in. Apparently, the size of these tech support groups for yahoo, hotmail, gmail are all closely guarded secrets. I have no idea, and by the time I do, I won't want to tell.

I didn't list the converter (or my poker article here) on the resume because they didn't ask for an update, and my last job (tech support) was much more relevant.

[goodguy_1]

hey bison good luck with whatever you do.All I know is you have helped a lot of hobbyists,semi-pros and pros with your technical expertise on a broad range of geeky stuff.I hope you dont stay away permanently [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[A_C_Slater]

What was your biggest downswing during the 150k hands at 3-6?

[bisonbison]

more than 150BB, less than 250BB. I tried not to keep track of such things.

[LImitPlayer]

I have 2 questions for you..

1) Why did you stop playing for a living? e You mentioned
burnout but is that the main reason?

2) Why did you think you burnt out? Everyone is different
but if you played 200k hands over 10 months, that's
20k hands a month. Earlier you mentioned you played 400
hands an hour, that = roughly 13 hours a week of poker.
Isn't that a little low to cause burnout?

[Evan]

Check your PMs dude. I realize this is the worst way to reach you apparently but just check them.

[bisonbison]

when I was working, it was roughly 15-25 hours/wk of play, all 8-tabling, another 15-25 hours of thinking about poker/reading/posting.

For the time I was at 3/6 - 2 months of 4 tabling, 2 months of 6 tabling, 2 months of 8 tabling. 150k hands, but a wide range of hours.

I'm not trying to say I had a really tough job, just that I was experiencing burnout on poker. If you haven't played for a living, it can be hard to understand.

You mentioned burnout but is that the main reason?

Try reading the first post.

[sthief09]

how bout sacking up and moving to 5/10 now that poker doesn't put food on the table? and I'm pretty sure $400 is plenty for 1/2

[bisonbison]

So right now I have $400 bucks online. When I have $800, I'll play 1/2. When I have $1600, I'll play 2/4. When I have $2400, I'll play 3/6. When I have $4000, I'll play 5/10. When I have 12k, I'll play 15/30.

With bonuses, rakeback, and the possibility of depositing more, I figure I'll be playing 5/10 in May or June.

edit: did you at laugh when I wrote about the banning of jews? Cause I thought it was funny.

[bisonbison]

Can I have g@gmail.com ?

Probably not. I don't know if/when/how many invites I'll get.