My own poker room

I hope the title grabbed you,

About me

My name is Adam and I've been playing poker as my sole source of income for 2 years now. I was at uni studying maths before I dropped out because I was too lazy to keep up. At the time I was playing $0.5/$1 and making decent money so I ended up quitting my weekend job and playing full time. After about a year I had quite a bit of money saved up and I decided to put a bit aside for staking.

Staking

Poker staking isn't as easy as it first appear's, trust me, once you start staking out a lot of your net worth to people you have never met before, it can be pretty stressful. Luckily I ran pretty hot at the start and had 2-3 every good players that were moving up pretty quick. It wasn't long before I was staking 5/10 and even a bit of 10/20.

By this time I had already set up my own poker staking website and It was getting very serious, I was staking out roughly $120k a month and I was bringing the site I was working with a lot of traffic. Then of course black friday hit and everything started to go tits up. The poker site I was staking on was on the Merge network and I was very worried they were going to be shut down as well as PS, FTP and UB. I started moving my focus on to another site and as soon as I did, the site I was working with basically decided to take all my players on themselves and I pretty much lost everything I had built.

That was almost a year ago now and I'm ready to start again. grinding 200nl just isn't the same when you have had $40k months before. As the title says, I want to start my own poker room, but to get there I need a player base. Quite a lot of this will come from my poker staking website hopefully. I will also try and develop my skills on a few smaller sites. To make things harder, the site I will be staking on is a brand new site with little traffic. This should help me develop the skills I need to run my own room.

Goals

- I still want to play enough poker to get me supernova by the end of the year
- Build my player base (twitter/facebook/mailing list)
- Network with other people in the industry, this should help me in any future projects
- Work on my writing skills

I'll be posting updates on these points as soon as I start to see some progress, feel free to leave any comments, I'll respond asap

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