I've been told that there hasn't been much news on this blog for a while. To be sure, the main reason is an absence of things happening !
However, I can report on one genuinely newsworthy event.
After 19 years in the financial markets, including 13 years at my current employer, I have decided that it's time to take a total change of direction. I have resigned "to pursue my interests in poker". In the short term, this will mean spending time at home with the family and playing poker !
In the longer term, I may well follow up some interests in what I like to call "the business of poker". There are many avenues that I could potentially go down, but in any case I won't want to dive immediately into any of them because I want to be able to chill out and get my bearings.
Until last year, when I first took a break from it, I had an almost unlimited appetite for the markets and never felt stressed or overworked even if I was working 20 hours a day sometimes, or regularly working 70hours a week.
However, it became clear to me that my passion lies elsewhere now so, although it feels strange to be leaving it all behind, I am completely comfortable doing so.
The usual way that an amateur player decides to give up his job to play poker is that he's been playing and winning for years (maybe decades) and is now finding that he makes more from playing poker than the day job. He considers carefully, and eventually takes a big step into the unknown.
Well, in my case, I can say that I
have considered carefully but apart from that I don't have too much in common with the paradigm. I've been playing for only 2-3 years and I'm a pretty average player (which means I am also a steady loser). In any event, it would be fanciful to think I could win more than I can earn in the financial industry.
Nevertheless, for me, it's the right decision.
