1. Why are you writing a blog on a site with almost zero readership?
So I can keep track of my progress, or lack of. And it's not quite zero readership. I might or might not get some conversation in here from the few regs we have left, but ultimately I just want somewhere to keep notes without talking poker in the commune.

2. Why is your "pro" target well below minimum wage for a 9-5 job?
It's not. I'm unskilled, best I can hope to earn is something like £16k a year, and after tax that's in the same ball park as £1k a month tax free. It helps that I'm in the UK and don't have to pay tax on my cash outs. Also, I hate working for other people. I want to be self reliant and enjoy my life.

3. What was the thought process behind deciding a bankroll of £450 (which should equate to 10NL cash or £8 SnGs at the volumes you must intend to play) is even slightly reasonable for going "pro"?
First of all, your assumption of 10nl is wrong. I'm playing 50nl 10bb short stack games. You would be correct to assume that I am strictly speaking insufficiently bankrolled for the stakes, but here's my thought process... A week ago, I had £50 in my account. I was watching these games that I now play, seeing how bad they were, and knew I could make money. So I thought, what's £50? If I lose it, it's not going to be the difference between eating and not. But, if I run at least average to begin with, I should do ok. So over the next four days, I won £400. Now I understand that 4 days of poker is not enough to "go pro", hence me using the word "try". But I also strongly believe that what makes or breaks my success is basically dodging particularly bad luck for the first few months as I build my bankroll.

I've seen enough at my stakes to know I can make money, and I can afford to lose what I have. So December I intend to grind it out and at the end of the month, decide if I really can go pro.

2. You run at 3 BB/100, a reasonably decent long term winrate for an above average player at 10NL
I have no idea what my bb winrate is per 100 hands, but it's a lot more than 3bb per 100 hands.
I'm playing anything between 1 and 4 tables. I've played probably five hours of poker a day for five days to earn around £500, so let's break that down. That works out of £20 an hour, that's 40bb.

So based on these figures, you can see why I'm going for it. The worst case scenario is I go bust, which doesn't change my life for the worse.