What do you work at?

podgeen

I remember reading the thread about coming into work after playing into the early hours in the fitz or merrion. It got me thinking....

I'm just curious what do you all work at or are there many students on the poker board.

I have always kinda assumed that everyone works in a computer related job but i may be wrong!

I'm a software engineer working for a company in Dun Laoghaire.

karlh

working as computer monkey in structured finance on leeson st. my brain doesn't work on less than 7 hours sleep so live mid week poker just isn't possible for me

roryc

Hey podgeen

yeh im still a student (doin my finals)
studying journalism in GCD

worked part time as a barman for years around town (redbox, the vaults).

working part time as a Customer Service Rep now for the English service 118 000 (same company that does 11 850 here). 10 euro an hour to tell the Brits where there nearest kebab shop is!

hope that answers your Q

POKERKING

student doing finals and i aint ever getting a job!!!!

podgeen

journalism eh... wouldn't have expected that. So will you be sending a cv to that cardplayer magazine

You should write an article to tell us your secret to winning those freeroll tickets

jem

Accountant in own practice.

NickyOD

Network administrator for a college. It's nice dealing wilth students but every single day I want to pack it in.

podgeen

don't suppose the college is UL?

Fathead

manager for jack & jones

NickyOD

podgeen wrote:

don't suppose the college is UL?

Nope, they don't pay enough.

ionapaul

Marketing executive for an IT company. I too find it hard to survice on less than 7 hours sleep but have to try occassionally If I were any good at poker I'd pack in the 9-5 and go pro in an instant!

Waylander

Accountant, like Karl playing midweek in the fitz is not really an option, but if they bring in the Saturday\Sunday afternoon tournies that were being discussed a few weeks ago I think I would play in these fairly often.

Iago

Product Manager in a telco, similar problem to the rest of the lads in that playing until 4 in the morning isn't an option midweek...

although who am I kidding, I'm normally knocked out by 11 anyway

TimFoil

freelance Illustrator/designer/parent....3 yrs of sleepless nights does wonders for late night stamina, happily being self employed means I can be creative with my work hours

biteme

full time student, but currently in full time employment doing IT helpdesk stuff, 9-5 has really killed my poker life, was so much easier when i could just not go to lectures in the morning So I only really go in on the weekends. Or when I'm bored. Don't like going to work with so little sleep.

accensi0n

Full-time student but finished exams now so doing customer verification for various telecom providers out in Sandyford.

mewso

Web Developer for a County Council. Glamorous or what.

JuliusFranco

pricing life insurance - oh to be good enough to pack it in!

DeVore

Um, I did pack it all in.

Used to be a project manager for a large Irish software house, stuffed the job in last March to work in the poker industry. Now I'm hired by PPP to assist them with their poker site, I write for several different people about poker, run poker tournies in the North West of the country and occasionally play the game.
I also work on Boards.ie trying to make it a better place and more efficient not least to say a little more profitable for its own continuation.

I dont know that I'd like to be a pro, it would be fairly boring to HAVE to go and play 40 hours a week. Plus, these days it means being an online pro realistically, which is twice as boring I'd say!

DeV.

nesf

Have worked in Sales mainly but am going back to finish my final year of my degree next year. Am not working full time atm, just bumming around looking for some part time work to tide me over.

I play poker because I've loved the game since I was introduced to it at the age of 8. I'm a decent enough player in that I have been playing off the same bankroll for 6 months at this point without topping up. I'm not someone who could do it full time though. I don't have the patience and dedication for that. Fair dues to anyone who can, but it's not for me. Poker will always stay a hobby and will never be a major source of income.

Love the theory though

Hectorjelly

DeVore wrote:

I dont know that I'd like to be a pro, it would be fairly boring to HAVE to go and play 40 hours a week. Plus, these days it means being an online pro realistically, which is twice as boring I'd say!

DeV.

To play a tournament in the Fitz, I have to get out of bed before 7pm. Wash, Find clean clothes and shower. I have to be there before 8.00 pm. I then get to play a €100 FO with a blind structure considerably worse than I am used to online, I havent played enough of them to have any idea what type of equity I have but Id guess its around 60 - 70%, which is a lot lower than Im used to. (My ROI on freezeouts is about 200% onlline)

Then for the next 4 hours I get so sit at a the same table with mainly the same people. If Joe is at the table I get to hear the same snatches of song for the next 4 hours!

Compare this to online, where there is almost always (at night anyway) a suitable tournament running; with a much better blind structure. Not only this but I can play stts or cash games at the same time. I can order dinner, catch up on some reading, have friends over, play computer games, etc etc.

podgeen

but what do you work at

Hitman Actual

Electronic Engineer, working in apps/silicon characterisation. I very much doubt I'd be good enough to go pro, but I'd like to spend six months or so playing constantly, mainly just to improve my game without having a bloody time-consuming job!

Hectorjelly wrote:

(My ROI on freezeouts is about 200% onlline)

Hey Hector, what do you mean here? For example, in a 100euro freeze-out, do you expect to average 200euro profit?

DapperGent

lenny_leonard wrote:

Hey Hector, what do you mean here? For example, in a 100euro freeze-out, do you expect to average 200euro profit?

Yeah. €300 back for €100 in. Nice rate Hector! I've never tracked MTTs foolishly enough. I'd be happy with that rate though.

I work for Met Éireann and have really varied working hours so getting to the Fitz a couple of times a week wouldn't be a problem. Though for the reasons Hector mentions above I've only bothered three times this year and one of those tournaments I won an online satellite to.

I honestly look at live poker as pure entertainment rather than a good use of my time profit wise. There might be an arguement that by putting in the time you'd get a solid idea about the game of most of the people you come up against on a regular basis and therefore would be able to return a greater profit from a casino rather than online. That doesn't seem viable to me though.

Hectorjelly

podgeen wrote:

but what do you work at

Poker!

Hectorjelly

lenny_leonard wrote:

Hey Hector, what do you mean here? For example, in a 100euro freeze-out, do you expect to average 200euro profit?

Exactly, my figure for the last 3 months of last year was 187%. Ive only played a couple this year online so my figure of -100% doesnt mean much

MTTs have a much bigger varience than STTs so it would take a long time to get a very accurate figure.

Hectorjelly

DapperGent wrote:

I honestly look at live poker as pure entertainment rather than a good use of my time profit wise. There might be an arguement that by putting in the time you'd get a solid idea about the game of most of the people you come up against on a regular basis and therefore would be able to return a greater profit from a casino rather than online. That doesn't seem viable to me though.

Thats a good point, and also being able to look at someone and get a read from is another profitable advantage, but the lack of table/game selection more than makes up for this, IMO.

fixer

I am a bouncer and freelance IT guy.

Juan Pablo

I'm the Consumer Insight Analyst for a large telco. But, like most others in this large telco, I drink tea and smoke Bensons while talking about football (this week I will mostly be discussing Man Citys impending assault on the UEFA Cup). Its tricky getting up at 7am when you've left the fitz cash game tables only three hours earlier. Tricky, but not impossible.

JuliusFranco

i'm drawing a face on my belly right now!

DeVore

There is something good about playing the same people and getting to look at them. I'm realising that thats subconsciously a big part of my game as I feel isolated and unable to decide, online sometimes, I havent really settled on an online site before PPP so maybe when I get to know the regulars and build up some notes I'll feel more comfortable. Right now my results in the fitz are very positive while online I'm seriously treading water!

DeV.