I'm Back Baby! (again)... And this time I have a goal

Caution: This post has some simple math in it. Do not read on if math makes you tired and bored. One of the paragraphs compares myself to Splinter, which I felt was pretty entertaining. You may want to skip the math and just read that.

I'm like the Vinny Testaverde of low-stakes-poker blog-writing. I'm getting way too old and I was never that good in the first place, but people keep asking me to come back based solely on the potential shown in my high school and college career and the fact that you never know what you're gonna get. I take it back, Testie was actually a decently consistent quarterback. I'm more like a Jeff George. Freakin Jeff George.

So in my third comeback within a single year, I'm here to tell you that (barring robbery) I'm officially here to stay. I haven't been playing any poker at all lately. As of right now, I have zero dollars in all of my poker accounts combined (for the record, I cashed out 50 bucks a day to live off of until I finally got my lazy ass up and got a job after college graduation. Then I slowly pissed the rest away in $1-$2 cash games.)

However, things changed today while I was at work. We had a thanksgiving dinner at lunch and afterwards, the President of our company played "Name that Tune" with his guitar. You received 10 bucks if you shouted out the answer before any else. Once you won three times, you couldn't yell the answer anymore so that other people would have a chance.

After lunch, I decided to take my 30 bucks and see if I could parlay this money into $10,000 by the time they end registration for the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. As always, I have to use a little math and logic to determine if this is even possible.

I don't know when registration closes for the 2010 World Series of Poker Main event, but let's assume it's Cinco de Mayo 2010 (why not?). Therefore I have 527 days to make 10,000 dollars in online poker. (go to: http://www.jarusa.com/hmdresults.htm?three=5&two=4&one=2010 if you ever want to know how many days are until a certain day.)

However, there will be days in which I will be unable to play. These days will most likely be Saturdays. Let's also account for the one day a week in which I will work late or simply not feel like playing poker. Therefore, 2/7-ths of the days between now and cinco de mayo will be spent without putting significant time in poker. There's also the fact that I work now. I get off work around 5:30 and am home by 6. I need to eat dinner. By 7, I should be ready to play poker until 9:30 or so to give myself time to go the gym and shower and what not. F it. I can eat and play poker. Give me 6:30-9:30 to play poker. That's three hours a day on 5/7ths of the days (not to mention the Sundays and rare Saturdays where I play for 10+ hours).

5/7*527=376 days
376*3=1128 hours
10000/1128=8.865

Therefore, I would need to average $8.87/hr. In all honesty, this is very doable. During the two months of not getting a job between college graduation and starting work, I think I averaged around 10 bucks an hour. However, at the time, I was motivated by the lack of money in my bank account and lack of desire to get a job. I was on my game. Now, I'm like Splinter from the Ninja Turtles. I'm old and wise, but I lack the desire to fight. I have 3 fucking turtles to look after. Ok I'm nothing like Splinter. But if I was, I'd like to draw your attention to the first Ninja Turtles movie. At the end, I'm pretty sure Splinter beats the crap out of Shredder and knocks him off of a building into a dumpster or something. I'm really not sure. But the point is, I'm rusty.

(off topic)

In the background, I'm hearing Wade Phillips explain how badass Tony Romo and Terrell Owens played this weekend (Owens had 7 rec., 213 yards). However, even though he's describing something positive, he sounds like a little fat kid explaining to his mom about his day at school after getting picked on and laughed at for 8 hours yet trying to find the bright side.

(back to topic)

So I'm rusty, but at least I have a goal. I'm going to start playing now.

COUNTDOWN
GOAL: $10,000
Beginning of day bankroll: $30
NEEDED: $9,970

DAY 1: At the end of my first day I profited $21.88. I played for 2 hours and 25 minutes. That's $9.05/hr. It was a volatile night and I got the aces at the right time. Very rusty.

End of Day Bankroll: $51.88
Needed: $9948.12