So far so good on the mac. I thought I'd be lost but it's not that bad. Pretty easy transition. I did my research on the external drives making sure that I didn't lose anything in the transition. That was a relief. The only hiccup in the transition is I have all my internet email pop-forwarded into my Outlook inbox. So the emails don't reside on server once they are forwarded. So I have this huge .pst file that isn't compatible with Entourage (the Mac version of Outlook). It took me about a day to research this. I found all kinds of tools that cost money to do the job. But I found a tip from some website and the solution is quite simple:
Download Mozilla Thunderbird.
Import all your email from Outlook into Thunderbird.
Once that is complete, your email files will be in your windows profile folder typically, C:\Documents and Settings\
There will be a file with no extension that will contain all your emails for that particular folder. That file is a regular text file using the MBOX format.
Transfer the files to your mac.
Drag the file to the Entourage folder and let the importing begin!
Now I have everything...well not everything.
Right now I have to play poker online using my Tablet PC which is fine for now. There might come a time where I might be forced to run an emulator on my mac (right now the best one is called 'Parallels') for work. If that happens, then I'll install pokerstars and can do everything on the same machine. We'll see.
Well, onto actual poker discussion.
Last Sunday, I played in a mega-satellite for the main event at the WSOP. There were almost 7000 entrants. I finished in 1080ish place. I was pretty card dead the entire 4 hour session. I only saw 12% of my hands on the flop or later.
As we were heading to the 4th break, I was the BB with KJo and it got folded all the way back to the SB. I was pretty short stacked ($1300 with $100/$200 $25ante). Suddenly the SB, who btw had a decent lead in chips compared to me, goes all in. I figured he had a weak hand and wanted to steal before the break and figured I didn't have much of a hand at all. So I insta-called with my KJ. He showed AQ and I got knocked out. It was a great play. I was short stacked, it was folded to just us. An all-in move would get no respect and any kind of hand would call, at least I would. An additional thing is, had this person raised, I'd either fold or go all-in.
Oh well, maybe next year.
Right now, I'm interested in getting into some cash games and start carving out a professional career. I'll have to start off small. Based on the book I just read, I'm gonna need a bankroll that will allow me to build.
Since I'll be specializing in NLHE, the max buy-in is 100 times the big blind.
This means at a $1/$2 table, the most I can sit down with is $200.
According to the book, experts (most players aren't expert level) would need about 15 times the max buy-in or in this example, $3000.
Good to very good players need about 25-30 times the max buy-in. I think I'm at that level so that puts me at $5k to $6k. Yeah...a little too rich for me to start off.
So I figure the $0.05/$0.10 game is around my neighborhood.
At 25 times the max buy-in for this game ($10) is $250. That is better.
So, very good players average about one big bet per hour. That is, at a $1/$2 table, a very good player can make a profit about $1 every hour they play. Consequently, to play professional full-time, I'd probably need to play profitably at the $25/$50 tables.
Anyone who thinks one big bet per hour is easy, try it. Take into consideration how many hours you've ever played in your life. Consider all the big wins and losses and all the break-even days. Even at 25/50 cent limits, if you've played 1000 hours in your lifetime, do you think you've profited $500? That's a lot of money if you think about it just from recreational playing. Surely you'd know if you're up that much.
Well, I'm gonna put it to the test.
I'll use this blog to record each day I play and how many hours I played, how much I started the session with and how much I ended with at the end of the session.
I'll be playing the 5/10 cent games.
I'll have to use my other account to keep money separate from my tournament money.
Oh, btw, I'll probably be playing 4 tables at a time. This way I can quadruple my earnings (actually 8 times). The great thing about internet poker is I can play as many tables as I want without having to increase my bankroll. The one big blind rule is based on a brick and mortar casino table. You roughly play twice as many hands online than you do in a casino. Playing 4 tables every hour is effective to an entire day!
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