Been chatting to a few people about lately on what their setup is when they play, and inspired by Amatays joke Pc layout on his blog (still not convinced its not his by the way lol) I thought I would take a pic of my setup. I got some cash for my 40th buffday in august last year and splashed out on a desk and new chair, then treated meself to a new PC with a 24 inch monitor. I moved myself out of the lounge and into the dining room and now my setup looks like the above.
The setup consist of two PC's one is dual screened with a a 24inch monitor in the middle and 19 inch on the left. usually have 4 tables tiled on the middle one, and sometimes a further 2-3 on the left hand one, along with poker tracker/itunes/lesbo porn. I then have a 2nd PC with all my excel sfuff on and msn to me mates, + normally have whatever site they are on up to watch and cheer them on.
I think it has def helped my game, as I do suffer from lack of concentration, so being away from the TV is a big help.
This is the first year I am starting to take my poker a lot more seriously, I am approx $15k up since I first started in Dec 2003, I now want to move to the next level. This year I am just gonna concentrate on improving my cash game and build up my bankroll to a level where in the future I could seriously think about giving up work and playing full time. This will involve making a serious dent in my £180k mortgage which still has 23 1/2 years to run. If things go as well as I hope they will, I will review where I am in 5 years and if I can possibly move house and downsize a bit and have no mortgage, I will take a risk and take the plunge. We plan to move up to Yorkshire before I am 50 anyway, so hopefully the property prices will be a bit cheaper than where I live now, which should help the plan. To be brutally honest it is all a bit of a dream at the moment, and I know I am not putting enough effort in to the studying side of the game as I should as I am spending so many hours actually playing to get a small profit cos I am playing at such a low level.
This month has been a real topsy turvy month so far, with good winning days, which make you feel on top of the world, then bad losing days, which really question why the fck do I put the hours in that I do and is it all really worth it. Luckily the winning days are more than the losing days at the moment and I am currently about $650 in profit on the month, and it looks like I should make the extra $300 bonus on sun this month which will help the bankroll. Also I am building up a nice pot of rakeback which I will get next month, I reckon it should be $250-$300. So at the moment, all is rosey. Lets just hope the year carries on and I can increase my knowledge at the same pace my bankroll does.
Have saved a few key hands from the last few days, which I will post later during the week. If I can get off my lazy fat arse and post more often on this blog, might put up the days biggest winning and losing pots for comments and piss takes. Will try to put some more pics up of stuff as well, cos I know you lot don't like the big words and prefer the pretty pictures. :o)
As a starter for 10, this was a hand, where I thought my opponent could lay down his overpair, if I represented a monster and I got caught out big style. Oh but we do love the river sometimes don't we ;-)
4 comments:
A pretty nice setup. For better than mine which is just sitting on the couch with the lappy besides me on the arm rest.
forgot to mention that you better can remove the adsense from your blog. They will never pay you cause it is poker related.
Adbrite can be a good substitution. You can read about on my sportsbetting blog. You can find the link in my profile.
Thanks for that dremeber, it is something I had never thought of, I will def look at getting it removed, was never gonna be a big earner anyway, i'm only up to $53 income since I first started, but I am def looking to try and earn a bit of my blog if I can. So many thanks again for your advice.
Goth
not as good as my set up
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