Oh hi and thanks for the well-wishing.

Erm, hi. Basically I guess its no secret that I'm still really young - 18 to be precise. So yeah, I just finished my full time education once and for all, so I never have to go to school again. And erm I had a part time job while I was at school which I hated everything about, and paid very little - only about $350 per month, but it got me by.

So erm since I absolutely hated where I was working, I worked my last day on Sunday 1 June to play poker to get me by. I figure it is by far the best time and probably the only time I can try out going pro, since I think my risk of ruin is so low. I'm still dependent and living with my parents rent-free - my only major monthly expense is running a car, and I have the option of moving on to uni in October if this doesn't work out and getting another part time job there. This is, in my opinion, the absolute best time to give this a shot.

As for a poker story, its a LOL. Started playing in 2004 with some donkaments at Stars before it got massively popular with very limited success on a tiny BR. After a couple of stakes to enable me to play higher I was beating the 25NL at Party through 2005 when it was uber-fishy, and then I moved back to play some more MTTs at Stars, because that I was I loved doing.. again with limited success. Then after a 4 month stretch playing SnGs at Stars, in which I churned out a good ROI (this was when I made my SnG videos that some of you have), I quit poker cold turkey in March 2006 and didn't play again until mid-2007, with some LHE at Stars, where I ran nicely. In January 2008 I moved my money around to do some casino whoring and made about $1,000 doing that, the majority of which I cashed out to buy a PS3. Then in late March/April 2008 I started playing 25NL at Stars with a bankroll of exactly $600, which has so far gone well and today I find myself with a bankroll of $1,700 playing 50NL.

So, touch wood, I should be comfortably comfortably making over $350 a month, eclipsing my part time job, and I should be able to cashout to support myself while still building my bankroll, although I anticipate it to be a very long time before I move up to 100NL, but 50NL is perfect for me at the moment :P

This is all.