Woke up and checked my emails. Neteller has cried uncle and will no longer transfer money to poker sites for its U.S. customers. Ideas? How do players that move big amounts of money in and out do things? If this is the divine universe's way of letting me know that perhaps leaving my riskless annuity-like comfy job, you know - the one only twenty minutes from my house with the solid benefits, the one I can do in my sleep with the friendly co-workers, that one...well, how bout just one more sign? If this is the case, please have the mailman deliver two more magazines today to my front door for my knucklehead neighbor who could not manage to fill out the forwarding address form correctly. At which point, I will reconsider this move as I, well...read his magazines :-)

Hello everyone...very funny. I have had one poster since the gala inauguration of this blog and that is one more than I thought I would have at this point. But I am grateful for one and will look to add more once I commit to writing more than once a year.

I have been toying with giving the online game a shot in earnest but I obsess about Dr. Frist's backdoor boonswoggle legislation. Do I have to get an offshore bank account and mailing address to ensure I can move money electronically? My guess is Neteller will roll over any day now as two of their former execs were arrested recently. If the answer to that is yes, how do I do it as cheaply and securely as possible? Walking away from work for awhile not much of a problem as I have many years experience and an MBA should online play prove unforgiving. Just hop back on the merry-go-round and hope that pay at least approximates what I make now. The plan would be to focus my energies on PL Omaha, either 3-6 or 5-10 initially as the swings at these levels are well below what I can afford. I would also like to work on my NL holdem game at similar stakes. I could put more of my cash initially to play bigger but I see no reason to do that. Why not just earn my way up the ladder and be patient? If I can't beat 5-10, 10-20 isn't going to work either. My work bonus doesn't hit for another month and a half so plenty of time to think more about this.

Meanwhile, my weekly game is on life support. We used to have 6 to 8 stout players, now down to four diehards and one every other week type. Short handed play really exposes weak play so some guys lose fairly regularly and it can get a little pricey. A 200 buck loss is no biggie, but you put a few of the 400-500 ones together and maybe one real bad one and you have a player reconsider just why he plays in game anymore. We play dealers choice, lots of PL Omaha and Holdem, usually 200 cap. We also play lots of games with fixed max bets like 30 bucks, 5 or 2, Omaha hi-low, Seventy Straight, Eighty Trips, etc. Any guys in Bergen County, NJ looking for a weekly game?