Moving

 Big changes for me.  All I can say is thank science for modern technology so I can keep in touch with my friends and family overseas!

I'm trying something else new:

I moved back to Southern California on 28th February. Been gone since 1998 - living in Ireland, working hard and raising my children. Poker has always been my 'me' time. I'm very different from the rest of my family: My sister works hard, plans and trains, and goes off and climbs Mt. Kilamanjaro. I work hard, study and put in online hours and save up to go to London and play in the GPS tournaments. So, I moved back to the U.S. following a divorce and needing a job change (economy is really suffering in Ireland). I land here a week and a half ago and immediately start looking for work, from temping to applying for a chip runner job. Have to get some income started as savings definitely won't last forever. But my family, from my two teenagers to my angelic step-mother, all think I should give it a go making poker my job. None of them are poker players. I'm awestruck by my family's support and a little scared but I'm going to give it a go. I will still try to find a part-time job as I don't have a right sized bankroll yet, but for the moment, live poker is my work (and joy ) and I'm hoping making this thread will make my poker work even better, as reading other people's threads definitely does. When I was here in SoCal for a couple of months before (about 6 weeks at the end of 2012) I played live at the local casinos - San Manuel and Morongo. I logged every session into the Poker Income app. My current report is: Profit/Loss: + $5,725.00 $/hour: + $39.76 $/Session: +$301.32 Hours: 144 Typical game I play is NLHE 2/5 or 1/3 - BI $300 My worst session to date is -4 BIs (-$1600) and my best is +7.5 BIs (+$2250) (I would make the positives green and the negs red but I can't figure out the colors at this point ) I've played 22 hours over my last 3 sessions. (I wish the report included average hours/session) I'm off to San Manuel again in a few minutes - it's only a 10minute drive for me - but from reading other threads I'm sure I'm going to have to make the Bike and the Commerce as soon as I can.  First the Bike, I think, so I can wave to Knifeboy!