Finding my grind

Spent the last week in Bourton-on-the-water in a quaint little cottage (that is bigger than my house!) relaxing and spending quality time with Mrs Ferret and Ferret junior, really enjoyed it, even managed some lie-ins! It's the first time I haven't felt shattered/zombified since the little guy was born. Been playing a bit of poker over the weekend, and mostly getting screwed by variance but I won't go into a list of beats as they are too ridiculous and tedious to detail.

I'm trying to find a niche that I could, in theory, grind out and pay the bills with. You know just if, in theory, the entire world economy was screwed and, in theory, we went into recession and, in theory, I lost my job and needed some cash while I was looking for a new one. In theory.

This is not about poker skill or flair or having fun, just something I could do as a stop-gap. The obvious choice was grinding sit-n-goes. Well I sat, and it did not go too well. I'm down over $200 from about 40ish of the $16 and $12 9 man turbos on Stars and FTP so far. I think a lot of it is variance, but I'm going to watch a load of vids by Jackal on Cardrunners to see if I can spot anything I'm doing wrong. I also played about 10 45 manners, and managed to get a 2nd in an $11 game after being the short stack on the bubble to recover a little cash.

I'm surprisingly motivated to beat these SNGs at this level, just by the challenge more than anything. I'd love to see my Sharkscope graph pointing proudly skywards after 1000 games or so. I would honestly rather bash out sit-n-goes all day every day than get a new job that is not the sort of work I want to do, stuck in the 9 to 5 rat race. If I could get a pay rise and a cool/fun developer job then I'd do that, but I'm not sure my fantasy job even exists. Obviously if it did come to playing the pokers for a job I'd try to grind out enough SNGs to pay the bills as quickly as possibly then "freeroll" the rest of the month playing 6-max cash or MTTs or learning to write iPhone apps to sell on Apple's online apps store. Oh well, for now its back to the grind.

Gl all

Simon

Bankroll: $1077