No longer pro. Have any questions?

bisonbison · #1 02-18-2005, 09:37 PM

My 10 months as a pro poker player have now come to an end. Starting at the beginning of March, I get to go back to a different kind of grind as Gmail's newest and handsomest employee.

I am pretty psyched, and pretty burnt out on grinding poker for a living, so I did a gut check, cashed out all but 400BB for .5/1 and felt a giant wave of relaxation as I realized I could get back to treating poker as a challenging hobby and not an exhausting job.

While I'm in this expansive mood, I thought I'd make myself available for any questions you guys might have about the "online professional poker player" experience or about whatever, including general trivia (my best friend and I just won a 7-team pub trivia thing last night where the second smallest team had 4 players).

I won't be writing poems here, and let me just make two things clear:

1. I won't answer tax questions.
2. I made enough money to support a comfortable lifestyle (NorCal, single male, mid-20s) for almost a year. I'm not sharing my winrate.

But other than that, feel free to kiss my ass in this thread or insult me or whatever. I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD.

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #2 02-18-2005, 09:40 PM

can u make my name the #1 hit for searches that include "pown"?

bisonbison · #3 02-18-2005, 09:59 PM

can u make my name the #1 hit for searches that include "pown"?

No.

PhatPots · #4 02-18-2005, 09:44 PM

Congrats! Good luck with your new job. I don't think I would want to be an online poker pro (at least not in the big picture). Its good that you did it for a while and you learned a lot and interesting life experience. I can't imagine that you will give up poker cold turkey? btw how many hands did you play this past year?

Cheers,
Pots

A_C_Slater · #5 02-18-2005, 09:49 PM

What was the name of Hitler's German Sheperd?

bisonbison · #6 02-18-2005, 10:01 PM

What was the name of Hitler's German Sheperd?

I don't know.

Here's one I do know: What was the name of the Nazi Party's weekly newspaper?

A_C_Slater · #7 02-18-2005, 10:08 PM

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What was the name of Hitler's German Sheperd?

I don't know.

Here's one I do know: What was the name of the Nazi Party's weekly newspaper?

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Hort! Hort!

(Listen! Listen!)

BritNewbie · #8 02-19-2005, 02:31 AM

The dog was called Blondi.
No idea what the paper was called.

miajag81 · #9 02-22-2005, 12:06 PM

Blondi was an Alsatian, not a German Shepherd.

bisonbison · #10 02-18-2005, 10:00 PM

I can't imagine that you will give up poker cold turkey?

No.

btw how many hands did you play this past year?

About 200k hands since May 2004. 150k at 3/6.